Wild Side receives 5 Emmy nominations

Release Date: 12/19/2006. Expired: 1/19/2007

The Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department received five regional Emmy nominations from the Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), all of them connected to the center’s award-winning outdoor adventure program, Tennessee’s Wild Side.

The nominations were announced Friday, Nov. 17, at BMI headquarters in Nashville. The winners will be announced in a televised ceremony Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

There were nearly 700 entries that were judged by the NATAS Northwest Chapter in Seattle, resulting in 267 nominations representing 54 television stations and production companies. The Midsouth chapter includes Tennessee, North Carolina (except Asheville) and the Huntsville, Ala., market.

Nominations for The Renaissance Center include:

Best Magazine Show: Tennessee’s Wild Side, producers Doug Jackson, Steve Hall, Alan Griggs, Ken Tucker, Matthew Emigh and Barry Cross;

The Renaissance Center’s outdoor adventure program produced with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has received several past Emmy nominations and was named Best Outdoor Program by the Association of Conservation Information in 2005.

Best Human Interest Story: Blind Fisherman, Terry Bulger and Matthew Emigh;

Wild Side Guide Terry Bulger and videographer Matthew Emigh are nominated for their report as part of a Tennessee’s Wild Side program.

Photography/Program: Matthew Emigh;

Videographer Emigh is nominated for a composite of his photography work on Tennessee’s Wild Side.

Photography/Program: Ken Tucker;

Videographer Tucker is nominated for his photography work on a segment about the Pogue Creek Wilderness for Tennessee’s Wild Side.

Writer/Program: Terry Bulger;

Wild Side Guide Bulger is nominated for a composite of his writing work on Tennessee’s Wild Side.

Since The Renaissance Center opened in 1999, it has now received 44 nominations for Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards and has won 11. Tennessee’s Wild Side has received eight of those nominations and picked up two awards: Best Magazine Program in 2003 and Best Writer/Non-News in 2002.

“We continue to be very proud of the work being done on Tennessee’s Wild Side,” said Steve Hall, senior director of the Multimedia Department at The Renaissance Center. “It remains the showcase production of a very talented crew both in front of and behind the cameras. With its expansion into markets outside Tennessee and now spinning off with Tennessee’s Wild Side Weekly Online, the program continues to reach new viewers every week.”

The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center with a fully digital television production department at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172. To learn more about the center’s Multimedia Department, contact Hall at (615) 740-5506 or steve.hall@rcenter.org, or visit www.trcmedia.org.