Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department receives 5 Midsouth Emmy nominations

Release Date: 1/14/2009. Expired: 2/14/2009

The Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department has received five nominations for the 23rd annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards presented by the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of the National Association for Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).

The nominations were announced Nov. 21 in a ceremony at BMI headquarters in Nashville. The Emmy Awards will be presented in a live telecast hosted by Hal Ketchum at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Saturday, Jan. 24.

More than 750 entries were submitted, resulting in nominations in 75 categories representing 63 television stations and production companies in Tennessee, North Carolina and northern Alabama.

The Renaissance Center received three nominations for work on its award-winning outdoors series Tennessee’s Wild Side, produced in cooperation with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and two nominations for Baby Daddy/Baby Mama, a public service project on teen parents produced for the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference.

The Renaissance Center's nominations are:

Magazine Program/Special - Tennessee's Wild Side: Fish Tales, producers Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker

Public Affairs - Baby Daddy/Baby Mama, producers Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Annette Nole-Hall, Ken Tucker, David Van Hooser

Editor/Program (Non-News) - Baby Daddy/Baby Mama, Ken Tucker

Photography/Program (Non-News) - Tennessee's Wild Side: Machine Falls, Ken Tucker

Writer/Program (Non-News) - Tennessee's Wild Side: Terry's Stories, Terry Bulger

Since its debut in September 2000, Tennessee’s Wild Side has won five Emmy Awards, including best magazine program twice, one for photography, one for writing and last year’s Magazine Program/Special award. It also was named the best outdoors program in North America by the Association for Conservation Information and was honored with a Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award in 2008 for Natural Heritage Conservation.

Tennessee’s Wild Side airs on PBS stations across Tennessee and Kentucky Educational Television.

Baby Daddy/Baby Mama is a public service program focusing on issues relating to teen parents produced by The Renaissance Center for the state’s district attorneys, who are presenting it to students in their districts as part of a campaign called What’s the Rush?: Don’t be a teen parent.

The Renaissance Center has now received 57 nominations and won 15 Emmy Awards since its opening in 1999. Awards have included best original song, set design, writing, editing, lighting, photography, children’s programming and more.

For more information on The Renaissance Center’s Multimedia Department, call (615) 740-5506 or visit www.rcenter.org. The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education, performing arts and television production center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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