STATEWIDE – NJN Public Television and Radio is pleased to announce that its State of the Arts series received an Emmy Award from The New York Chapter of the National Television Academy for House & Garden in the category of Magazine Program. “We are proud to be recognized by our peers and receive this prestigious Emmy Award for our exceptional program that features an in-depth focus of the arts in New Jersey,” said NJN Executive Director Elizabeth Christopherson.
The award was presented in New York City on April 1, 2007 to Amber Edwards, senior producer, and Susan Wallner, series producer. Also contributing to this winning program were Eric Schultz, producer, and Christopher Benincasa, associate producer. Nila Aronow is the executive producer for State of the Arts.
State of the Arts is a half-hour arts magazines that goes on location with creative personalities and productions around the state and devotes each show to a particular theme. House & Garden featured artistic elements found in four New Jersey homes and gardens: a sculptor whose house, Luna Parc, is a work of art; two Nutley neighbors whose palettes are their gardens; a colonial estate that became New Jersey’s Governor’s Mansion and ultimately a museum; and the country garden setting of one of the wittiest plays ever written, “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, founded in 1955, is the preeminent membership organization serving the television industry. NY NATAS fosters creativity and inspires excellence through the renowned Emmy® Award, the most prestigious honor and most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction in television.
State of the Arts marks twenty-five years on NJN this season. In addition to this Emmy Award, the series has earned 25 Regional Emmy Awards, including a 2006 Mid-Atlantic Emmy and a 2005 New York Emmy.
State of the Arts airs every Friday at 8:30 pm, followed by an encore presentation each Wednesday at 11:30 pm. Funding for State of the Arts is provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The series producer is Susan Wallner and the executive producer is Nila Aronow.
The current episode of State of the Arts can be viewed online at www.njn.net. Individual stories will be available to view following their broadcast by visiting the program online at State of the Arts.
NJN is available on all New Jersey cable systems, satellite systems, and Time Warner Cable channel 750 in NYC.
State of the Arts is also available via video streaming at njn.net after the original broadcast.
Additionally, the program is repeated on NJN’s JerseyVision available on Comcast Digital Cable in New Jersey.
(Check http://www.njn.net/digital/schedule.html for detailed listings.)
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