The Suncoast Emmy Awards are regional Emmy awards presented by the Suncoast Chapter of the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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NATAS
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), also known as the National Television Academy until 2007, is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television ...
) that represents Florida; Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, & New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Thomasville, Georgia; and Puerto Rico. NATAS presents the
Emmy
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award catego ...
among sectors of the television industry in several award ceremonies.
The Emmy Awards – National Academy Chapters
Regional Emmy awards
Historical Emmy award winners
Other awards
In addition to the annual Emmy Awards, the chapter awards professionals in several other categories.
Silver Circle awards
The Silver Circle Award recognizes those people who have made significant contributions to television over a period of 25 years or more. The Suncoast Chapter has offered these awards to television professionals in South Florida since 1989. The Puerto Rican members with the support of the Chapter, under the direction of Victor Montilla have produced three formal dinners in San Juan giving Silver Circle awards to Paquito Cordero
Paquito Cordero (October 16, 1932 – June 30, 2009) was a Puerto Rican comedian and music and television producer. He is considered a pioneer of Puerto Rican television.
Early years
Cordero (birth name: Francisco Cordero Baez) was born to ...
, Jacobo Morales
Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and author born in Puerto Rico.Tommy Muñiz
Lucas Tomás Muñiz Ramírez (4 February 1922 – 15 January 2009), better known as Tommy Muñiz, was a Puerto Rican comedy and drama actor, media producer, businessman and network owner. He is considered to be one of the pioneering figures of ...
and José Miguel Agrelot
Giuseppe Michael Agrelot Vilá (April 21, 1927 – January 28, 2004), also known as José Miguel Agrelot or Don Cholito, was a Puerto Rican comedian, radio and television host.
Biography
Agrelot was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He was t ...
.
Golden Circle awards
The Golden Circle Award is given to those television professionals who have distinguished themselves by their work in television over a period of fifty years or more.
Governor's award
The Governor's Award is the most prestigious award given by the Academy. Since the first award in 1978 to Mitchell Wolfson, who founded television in South Florida, the award has been presented over 18 times.
The Governor's Award recognizes those persons, or those television entities, who are worthy of recognition for the quality of their contribution to television in the Suncoast region, but are not otherwise eligible for an Emmy Award for their work.
Other programs
The Chapter also offers seminars and awards scholarships
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to distinguished scholars in the field.
References
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Regional Emmy Awards