SIXTY THIRD AWARDS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES NATIONAL CAPITAL CHESAPEAKE BAY CHAPTER JUNE 26, 2021 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Welcome to the Virtual 63rd Capital Emmy Awards! the Pros held each year for students and journalists in the beginning stages of their careers. Her impact on student Want to watch something good on television? We’ve got journalists throughout the years has been immeasurable. it right here as we celebrate another year of excellence in Television Arts in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Deborah Weiner of WBAL–TV11 News in Baltimore, Your colleagues and coworkers have done outstanding Maryland is this year’s Ted Yates Award recipient. Deb work this year under unimaginable circumstances, and has worked as a journalist for more than three decades. we’re going to celebrate all of it tonight. She has spent nearly two decades at WBAL-TV covering everything from Maryland Holocaust survivors to teen Think about what we all did this year. Against the backdrop victims of Baltimore crime. Last year she produced the of an unprecedented pandemic, you rose to the awesome documentary “NO MINOR CRIME” which chronicled the responsibility of covering a social revolution and an tragedies of the young people killed in the streets of election season like no other, all through the lens of public Baltimore during 2019. She then served as an indelible health, voting rights and inclusion. Your coverage of these piece of continuing COVID-19 coverage for the rest of the events will be the recorded history and tools of progress year while suffering from the deadly virus. We’ve always for future generations. referred to this recognition as our “Profile in Courage.” Deb fits that definition perfectly. I am happy to report to you that the Capital Emmy Chapter is stronger than ever. We continue to be one of the largest In addition to Sue and Deborah, tonight we toast almost chapters in the National Academy. This is a credit to 400 entries in 126 different categories … a specular the hard work of the Board of Governors, the Chapter’s representation of the creativity you used to tell stories and Executive Committee, and the Chapter’s staff. I hope they produce shows, newscasts and content. know how much they are appreciated. We’ll have to toast virtually this year, but I have some good I also want to recognize two stations that have made a news. Mark June 25, 2022 in your calendars. We’ll gather unique commitment to our organization. Maryland Public together next year at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Television and WTVR in Richmond are our Capital Emmy Conference Center and are already making plans to make Partners. This commitment is a significant investment that the best in-person ceremony ever. But first … on with in our Academy and provides membership status to all the best VIRTUAL ceremony ever. their employees. We greatly appreciate their support and encourage other stations to become Capital Emmy Partners as well! Congratulations to all of tonight’s nominees and Emmy recipients! Tonight, we also honor two others for their contributions to our profession. Sue Kopen Katcef is this year’s recipient of the Chapter’s Jason Gittlen, Board of Governors Award. Sue is recently retired from NATAS-NCCB President teaching at the University of Maryland as well as the former Capital News Service Bureau Director of the Merrill College of Journalism. She currently does freelance work for MPT’s News Division. Sue has been the heart and soul of the Chapter’s educational mentoring program Face Time with PAST PRESIDENTS Robert L. Adams John S. Douglass William J. McCarter Ellis Shook Richard K. A’Hearn Holly Fine Sean McGarvy James Silman Paul L. Berry Les Heintz Fran Murphy Sue Ann Staake-Wayne David Brinkley Jim Hollingsworth Dan O’Brien Richard C. Stratton Lillian Brown Jack W. Hunter Sandra Pastoor Thom R. Winkler Stephanie Campbell Frank Kavanaugh John Secondari Joy Allison Zucker-Tiemann 2 63RD EMMY® AWARDS | NATAS - NCCB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS Jason Gittlen Kate Kelly President 2nd Vice President WRC WETA Adam Longo Jumoke Davis 1st Vice President Secretary WUSA9 Less Traveled Media NATIONAL TRUSTEES Seth Berenzweig Les Heintz Jessica Snyder Berenzweig Leonard, LLP Heintz Media Productions WETA Jason Gittlen Fernando Pizzaro Joe Yasharoff WRC NPR Montgomery Community Media and University of Maryland - Alternate BOARD OF GOVERNORS Will Anderson Barbara Ciara Janette Luviano Eric Pritchett Regional Vice President WTKR Telemundo 44/WZDC WVIR Blue Ridge Rachel DePompa Samara Martin-Ewing Tiffany Townsend Terry Bryant WWBT WUSA9 American University Nicole Webb Jeff Gygax Peter O’Neal Regional Vice President Ava-joye Burnett WTTG WMAR WJZ WJZ Andre Hepkins Virginia Pancoe Donna Weston Candace Burns WBAL VPMedia WRC WTVR Joy Lambert Ben Pekkanen Amanda Zimmer Kathleen Cairns NBC Sports Washington Adam Longo U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs Cheryl Carson WUSA9 WJLA EMMY NIGHT COMMITTEE Virginia Pancoe Rachel DePompa Kate Kelly Tiffany Townsend Chair WWBT WETA VPMedia Nicole Webb Jason Gittlen Jason Marks WJZ Frank Batavick WRC WAVY Maryland Public Television Andre Hepkins Jessica Snyder Jumoke Davis WBAL WETA Less Traveled Media JUNE 26, 2021 3 AWARDS COMMITTEE Amanda Zimmer Jay Korff Samara Martin-Ewing Terri Tolliver Chair WJLA WUSA9 WTTG NBC Sports Washington Joy Lambert Fernando Pizarro Tiffany Townsend Kathleen Cairns NPR Adam Longo Donna Weston Jason Gittlen WUSA9 Jessica Snyder WRC WRC WETA GOLD & SILVER CIRCLE COMMITTEE Barbara Ciara Cheryl Carson Chris Gordon Joe Yasharoff Co-Chair WJLA WRC Montgomery Community WTKR Media and University of Kathleen Cairns Peter O’Neal Maryland Donna Weston WMAR-TV Co-Chair Pat Collins WRC WRC Virginia Pancoe VPMedia Tom Buckley Mike English WUSA9 Maryland Public Television Sylvia Reis WRC EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH COMMITTEE Pieter Bickford Kathleen Cairns Kate Kelly Fernando Pizarro HighRock WETA NPR Josh Davidsburg Terry Bryant Freelance & University of Kate Kelly Tiffany Townsend American University Maryland WETA Nicole Webb Ava-joye Burnett Andrew Inches Sue Kopen Katcef WJZ WJZ Kennedy High School University of Maryland (Silver Spring, MD) Carol Wynne Ashlyn Dixon Lisa Haynes Ryan Leigh, CPA Executive Director Associate Director Awards & Judging Accounting Services Wynne Dixon Association Wynne Dixon Association Manager CliftonLarsonAllen LLP Management, LLC Management, LLC DCTV 4 63RD EMMY® AWARDS | NATAS - NCCB THE EMMY® AWARDS HOW THE EMMY® JUDGING PROCESS WORKS The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences The Emmy® Award celebrates excellence in recognizes outstanding individual achievement in television with the announcement of the nominations the National Capital Chesapeake Bay region by in May and the awarding of statuettes in June. conferring annual awards of merit. In December and January, our Chapter receives hundreds of entries in 140 categories. After a The Emmy® Award is intended to recognize thorough review by the awards committee members, excellence. Therefore, in each category, one award, the entries are divided up among other NATAS more than one award or no award may be given. The Chapters. They are screened and judged online, or Awards Committee wants to remind NCCB members in-person at Super Panels, by seasoned TV station of the importance and honor of the nomination itself. staff, production companies, and independents who are experienced in the categories they have This year news, program and individual craft agreed to judge. This year, seven Chapters judged entries were judged online and in person by our entries and in turn, we will judge their entries panels in Boston, New York, Heartland, Lone Star, throughout the year. Ohio Valley, Pacific Southwest, and Suncoast. The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter’s Awards Programming and News categories have a high Committee reviewed the unidentified totals prepared score of 30; Crafts have a high score of 20. by the Certified Public Accounting firm of Bowling, When the scores come in, the accounting firm of Franklin and Co., LLP for the purpose of determining CliftonLarsonAllen LLP translates the scores into the number of awards to be given. percentages. So when it comes time for the Awards Committee to evaluate whether a category has Emmy® recipients and nominees, they get a blind category with a long list of percentages. After several years of doing it this way, the National Awards Committee has devised certain cut offs for scores THE BETTY ENDICOTT NATAS-NCCB that determine whether a category has winners and CHAPTER STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP nominees. As a general guideline, entries that score 90% or above are awarded an Emmy® and those that Elizabeth Doyle of Towson University score 80% or above receive a Nomination. Toluwalase Famuyide of the University of Maryland JUNE 26, 2021 5 HOST | CANDACE BURNS HOST | ALBERTO PIMIENTA Candace Burns co-anchors the Alberto Pimienta is a reporter for CBS 6 evening news in Richmond, Noticiero Telemundo 44, our sister Virginia. She joined the news station Telemundo 44/WZDC, team in 2014, after anchoring serving the Spanish-speaking and reporting in Flint, Michigan, community in the Washington, D.C. where she earned the Michigan area. Pimienta reports the latest Association of Broadcasters and most important news Excellence award for her reporting. for viewers and contributes to She is an Emmy award-winning NBC4 News. journalist who has been recognized Prior to joining Telemundo 44 in for her dedication to journalism and November 2017, Pimienta worked her service to the community by several organizations. as a political reporter for NY1, NY1 News and the 24- Candace serves as a board member for the National hour local Spectrum News stations from 2016 to 2017 Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National as a political reporter in Washington, D.C., covering Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is an active Congress and the White House.