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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

NewTV Takes Home an Emmy

The Newton station received the award in the Outstanding Promotion Program-Single Spot category.

NewTV can now add the words "Emmy award-winning" to the station's title. The Newton cable station took home a Boston/New England Emmy on Saturday in the Outstanding Promotion Program - Single Spot category. The nomination came by way of a promo for the station's original show "The Folklorist" "[The award] solidifies NewTV as a community resource and puts 'The Folklorist' on the map," said producer Jesse Kreitzer, who shares the Emmy win with "right hand man" and Production Manager Andrew Eldridge and the show's skilled storyteller, host John Horrigan. NewTV received two nominations for "The Folklorist" promotional material in the Outstanding Promotion Program - Single Spot category. The winning material was a promo titled "The Christmas …

Monday, May 14, 2012

NewTV's "The Folklorist" Snags Two Emmy Nods

"The Folklorist," a NewTV original program, received two Boston/New England Regional Emmy nominations for its promos.

When NewTV Producer Jesse Kreitzer attended the Boston/New England Emmy Award nomination party last month, he didn't think the station would be walking out as a nominee. Well, NewTV didn't leave with one nomination. It left with two.  "It was a surprise," Kreitzer says. "It's an honor for NewTV -- it raises awareness about what we're able to do here." NewTV's original show "The Folklorist" was nominated twice in the Outstanding Promotion Program - Single Spot category. Kreitzer shares the nomination credit alongside Production Manager Andrew Eldridge and the show's host John Horrigan. The nominated material includes a promo for "The Folklorist" titled "The Christmas Truce," which previews a story about World War I troops who put their …

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