{"id":19143,"date":"2016-08-10T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=19143"},"modified":"2016-08-10T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:19:10","slug":"httpallentownjazzfest-org-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=19143","title":{"rendered":"PBS39 Receives 2 Emmy\u00ae Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Bethlehem, PA &#8211;<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1998981595\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 10, 2016<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; PBS39\u00a0is proud to announce the receipt of 2\u00a0Emmy\u00ae\u00a0Award nominations\u00a0from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The team received Mid-Atlantic EMMY\u00ae Award nominations for Children\/Youth\/Teen Program or Special and for Historic\/Cultural Program Feature\/Segment.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Vice President of Education and Production Teri Haddad, Ed. D., received a nomination as the producer of &#8220;Cosmo&#8217;s World: Trees,&#8221; an Emmy\u00ae Award-winning educational series produced in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Producer\/director Scott Paul, video editor Steven Whitcombe and videographer Steve Kauffman were also nominated for their work on the program.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Cosmo&#8217;s World has a proven track record of connecting kids to their environment and building excitement about science,&#8221; said <strong>Teri Haddad, VP of Education and Production, PBS39.<\/strong> &#8220;We&#8217;re committed to educating our young viewers and are honored to be recognized by our peers for this program yet again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Reporter\/producer Grover Silcox, videographer Jeff Frederick and editor Lisa Robinson received nominations for &#8220;A Witness to History.&#8221; This segment shared the story of Dr. George Sakheim, who served as an interpreter during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. This segment was produced for PBS39&#8217;s weekly news magazine program<\/div>\n<div><strong>FOCUS<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;At PBS39, we have the privilege of telling stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things,&#8221; said <strong>Grover Silcox, reporter\/producer, PBS39<\/strong>. &#8220;I was honored to document and share the story of Dr. George Sakheim&#8217;s witness to this historic event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>PBS39<\/strong><\/em> has been nominated in two categories including:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Children\/Youth\/Teen (19 and Under)- Program or Special<\/b><\/div>\n<div><i>Cosmo III: Trees<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Scott Paul, Producer\/Director<\/div>\n<div>Steven Whitcombe, Video Editor<\/div>\n<div>Stephen Kauffman, Videographer<\/div>\n<div>Teri Haddad, Producer<\/div>\n<div>Link to segment:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kp3a3Jv8ztU\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.<\/span><wbr \/>com\/watch?v=Kp3a3Jv8ztU<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Historic\/Cultural Program Feature\/Segment<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><i>&#8220;A Witness to History&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Grover Silcox, Reporter\/Producer<\/div>\n<div>Lisa Robinson, Editor<\/div>\n<div>Jeffrey Frederick, Videographer<\/div>\n<div>Link to segment:<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/153411990?width=1080\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/<\/span><wbr \/>153411990<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 34th Annual Mid-Atlantic Emmy\u00ae Awards will be presented <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1998981596\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday, September 24, 2016 <\/span><\/span>at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19107.<\/p>\n<div><strong>About PBS39<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>PBS39 is a community-owned public television station licensed to Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, PA, serving eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey. PBS39 is owned and operated by the Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation. The mission of PBS39 is to educate, inspire, inform, and entertain, while stimulating the exchange of ideas for community enrichment.\u00a0For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlvt.org\">wlvt.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><strong>About NATAS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of NATAS represents over 700 industry professionals working in regional television and is best known for organizing the annual Mid-Atlantic\u00a0Emmy\u00ae Awards, which recognize excellence in news, programming and individual acievement in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Information Provided By:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> DaWayne Cleckley<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> VP, Marketing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> dawaynec@wlvt.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=3023\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[3780,3773,3774,3779,3770,3771,3772,3769,491,3776,3778,3777,3775],"class_list":["post-19143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-34th-annual-mid-atlantic-emmy-awards","tag-a-witness-to-history","tag-cosmos-world","tag-dr-george-sakheim","tag-grover-silcox","tag-jeff-frederick","tag-lisa-robinson","tag-mid-atlantic-emmy-award","tag-pbs39","tag-scott-paul","tag-steve-kauffman","tag-steven-whitcombe","tag-teri-haddad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PBS39-wlvt-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}