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Prized golden EMMY statues were presented to honor excellence in television news, programming, production and individual talents at the 35th Annual Southeast Regional EMMY Awards on Saturday evening, June 27, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead. The Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) sponsored the awards ceremony.

Broadcast veteran Bill Tush, a veteran of both the regional and national broadcast communities, having launched his television career at Ted Turner's flagship station in the 1970s, emceed the gala EMMY Awards presentation. Tush currently stars in Adult Swim's newest television series The Rising Son.

The EMMY Awards represents the epitome of achievement in television. The Southeast is one of 19 chapters in the United States and includes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Asheville, NC.

NATAS Southeast presented its highest honor, the Governors Award, to Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter. Young, a veteran of the civil rights movement, has served as Congressman,, was mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s, and was instrumental in Atlanta's successful bid for the 1996 Olympics.

Young's ties to broadcast media go back to the 1950s and 1960s when he hosted Look Up and Live, a CBS Sunday morning program that also starred Dick Van Dyke. These days Young oversees the quarterly series Andrew Young Presents which airs on WSB-TV Atlanta.

The prestigious Gold Circle, which recognizes television pioneers whose careers have spanned a half-century or more, was presented to broadcast veterans Gary Franklin, an assignment editor at WXIA-TV, Atlanta, who has received seven EMMY Awards over the years, and John W. Jacobs Jr., a past president of botht he Georgia Broadcasters and Cable TV associations.

EMMY Award tabulations were completed by Habif, Arogeti and Wynne, LLP.

Thanks to our sponsors listed below who contributed to the 2009 EMMY Awards as well as Flowers of Sandy Springs who provided the table centerpieces.

NATAS Press contacts: Maizie Hale/Carla Caldwell at Mazie Hale Public Relations 404.261.7080 or mzh@maiziehalepr.com

(updated 7/18)