News Broadcasting
PBS tops News and Documentary Emmy nominees
NEW YORK: The 24th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees have been announced. The award ceremony takes place on 3 September at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
US public broadcaster PBS leads the nominees list with a tally of 31 followed by CBS with 19. ABC and NBC both got 18. NBC’s subsidiary MSNBC got 13 nominations. CNN received six nominations.
Speaking on the nominations National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences president Peter O. Price said: “This year’s nominations illustrate the excellent work currently being done in the field of news & documentary. The hard news nominees showcase remarkable reporting on such diverse topics as international terrorism, airport security, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the arrest of the DC snipers, the brutal conflict in the Congo, and the rescue of the Pennsylvania miners.”
“The breadth of coverage in the documentary area is equally impressive, ranging from a five-part series on the human brain to a portrait of the celebrated American landscape photographer Ansel Adams,” Price adds.
An official release informs that nearly 1,500 entries were received. The nominees in the outstanding coverage of a breaking news story in a regularly scheduled newscast category include ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather Rumsfeld Notes, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather Snipers Caught .
CNN features in the outstanding coverage of a continuing news story in a regularly scheduled newscast. Its special 9/11: What Really Happened has been cited. Another special which looked at Bin Ladens group Terrorism – al Queda Documents has been nominated in the outstanding investigative journalism in a regularly scheduled newscast category. Larry King Live has been recognised in the outstanding interview segment.
News Broadcasting
Times Network to air JVC Exit Poll across 5 regions on April 29
Four-hour broadcast spans states and Puducherry with data-led analysis
MUMBAI: Times Network is set to roll out what it calls one of its most expansive election programming efforts yet, culminating in the JVC Exit Poll on 29 April, with a multi-hour broadcast spanning key poll-bound regions.
The exit poll will air across Times Now and Times Now Navbharat, beginning at 5pm and 4pm respectively. Co-powered by Vedanta and Jindal Stainless, the programming aims to combine on-ground reportage with data-driven projections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The network has deployed over 50 journalists across these regions, gathering voter sentiment and local insights in the run-up to polling. The effort builds on its ongoing election formats such as Election Yatra and Election Premier League, which have tracked campaign narratives and community-level issues.
In parallel, Times Now Navbharat has focused on constituency-level reporting in West Bengal through its Jan Gan ka Mann series, capturing voter opinions across diverse segments.
The coverage has also featured interviews with prominent political leaders. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala and V D Satheesan have appeared on the network’s election specials. From Tamil Nadu, voices including deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran, BJP leader K Annamalai and NTK’s Seeman have also featured in discussions.
On the day of the exit poll, the network’s primetime anchors, including Navika Kumar, Zakka Jacob and Sumit Awasthi, will lead the coverage. They will be joined by a panel of political analysts, psephologists and senior journalists offering real-time insights and interpretation of trends.
The programming will integrate grassroots reportage with analytics from the JVC Exit Poll, aiming to give viewers an early sense of electoral outcomes ahead of the official results on 4 May.
With its combined English and Hindi broadcast reach, Times Network is positioning this effort as a comprehensive look at voter sentiment, blending field reporting, data and debate to decode what could lie ahead when the final mandate is revealed.
