NEWS & NOTES : ABC LEADS PACK IN NEWS, DOCUMENTARY EMMY BIDS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. may have taken a drubbing in the prime-time Emmy nomination race for entertainment programming, but it is the most-nominated network for this year's news and documentary Emmy Awards. Meanwhile, all-news cable network CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. mustered a measly measly said of beef, pork and mutton because infected meat has a speckled appearance thought to resemble measles (1) in humans. See also cysticercus. one nomination in the news derby. After two straight years of PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, nominations leadership, ABC took over the top seat among contenders for the 17th annual News and Documentary Emmy competition. Winners will be announced Sept. 11 in New York. ABC increased its haul by about a third compared with last year, garnering a total of 29 Emmy nominations in this year's race. The Disney-owned network's nominations were fairly evenly distributed among its newsmagazines ``PrimeTime Live,'' ``20/20'' and ``Day One,'' as well as ``World News Tonight With Peter Jennings.'' PBS, which has been the most nominated programming service the past two consecutive years in the news and documentary Emmy derby, has the second-most nominations this time, with 27 nominations - down from the previous year's 30. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , which two years ago was pulling in just eight nominations, this year is bestowed with 20. CNN, which fell from nine nominations in 1994 to three in 1995, continues its downward slide, logging just one this time. |
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