The 23rd Regional Emmy Awards were held in Nashville this past weekend so I checked their website to see how many of my past co-workers at WSOC / WAXN were nominated for awards. I was surprised to find that some of MY spots were nominated for an Emmy. What!? Yup, my work was nominated for [...]
On this Veterans Day I thought this would be an appropriate time to tell the story about my great uncle Jules Levine. My uncle Julie (great uncle Jules) was an Army private serving in Italy during World War II. On June 2nd, 1944 his platoon needed to seize control of a hilltop near a highway [...]
The 21st Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards were held tonight in Nashville. I won my second Emmy Award for The Mayberry Code.
Tonight the Mid-South Emmy nominations were announced and I have received a nomination for my promo, “The Mayberry Code”. This is my third Emmy nomination out of three times entering. I won an Emmy Award for a previous promo campaign entitled “Mayberry Mysteries”.123 It should be obvious that my current nomination and my previous win [...]
Last night I won an Emmy Award for “Mayberry Mysteries”. Last year I was nominated for “Fife Club” but didn’t win.
Emmy nominations just came out. I was nominated in the category of Promotional Campaign. Last year I also received a nomination (Promo Non-News) but did not win. Congrats to everyone else at WSOC and WAXN who were nominated too.
This Wednesday a series of promos that I produced won a national Addy Award! This campaign had won the local Addy and then a regional Addy, which made it eligible for the national level. I’m told that this is the biggest award in the Advertising profession (tv, radio, print, internet), and that no local station [...]
Yesterday was very busy. First thing in the morning, Patty went in for oral surgery to have all four of her wisdom teeth extracted. The surgery took only 20 minutes, but the medication stayed with Patty for most of the day. Everything went fine and Patty is just a bit sore. In the evening I [...]
I learned today that my “Mayberry Mysteries” campaign won (at least) a Citation of Excellence from the Charlotte Ad Club. I said “at least” because it can win a full Addy Award. The awards will be announced on Friday, February 1st. Don’t forget that I was nominated for an Emmy for my “Fife Club” promo. [...]