MSUToday staff members, Focal Point students receive Michigan Emmys

MSUToday Show staff members and Focal Point students earned Michigan Emmy Awards June 6 at the Emmy Awards Gala in Detroit.  

The MSUToday Show team, which produces Michigan State University feature content for the Big Ten Network, was recognized June 6 with an Emmy award in the education/schools category.

The Michigan chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has recognized MSUToday staffer Troy Hale and others for their work on a segment on the MSU Spartan Marching Band. 

“The Emmy award shows the team’s dedication to creating a very high quality television program,” Hale said. “This is the best crew I have ever worked with in my career. This type of work environment allows for this level of creativity and quality of work.”

The team received four Emmy nominations from the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences for producing content in the categories of arts/entertainment, education/schools and magazine program.

“MSU: A Study in Jazz” (Alberto Moreno, Jim Peck ) was nominated in the arts/entertainment category; “Formula Racing” (Troy Hale) and “MSU Marching Band” (Troy Hale) segments were nominated in the education/schools category; and MSUToday No. 7, featuring segments on the Spartan Marching Band, renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, MSU’s arborists on campus and “The Show,” the nation’s longest-running college sitcom (Kevin Epling, Troy Hale, Alberto Moreno, Jim Peck), was nominated in the magazine program category.

To view the award-winning shows and learn more about the MSUToday Show, go to www.msutoday.msu.edu.

Journalism students Anisa Abid, Brandie Hansen, Pavel Kofman, Matthew Myall and Courtney Williams, telecommunication, information studies and media student Brent Krzystan and faculty advisor in the School of Journalism Bob Gould were recognized with an Emmy for their work on the MSU student-produced news television program Focal Point, housed in the MSU School of Journalism.

The Emmy was awarded in the category of “student production: news” for Focal Point’s Show No. 4, featuring post-election coverage from fall 2008.

To view Focal Point programming, go to http://focalpoint.cas.msu.edu/.

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