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ETV Brings Home Four Regional Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Broadcasting

For Immediate Release
June 28, 2010

Columbia, SC…On Saturday evening, the Southeast Regional National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ceremony honored ETV with four Emmy Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in broadcasting.

The evening’s winners included:

* Outstanding Achievement: Magazine Program for “Making It Grow!” Scott’s BBQ In this episode, the “Making It Grow!” van once again heads to one of its favorite places to experience great barbecue, Williamsburg County’s Scott’s BBQ.  The show airs on Tuesday, July 6 at 7 p.m.

This is the sixth Southeastern Region Emmy Award for ETV’s “Making It Grow!”

* Outstanding Achievement: Documentary-Topical for “Carolina Stories: Carolina Caught” Narrated by naturalist Rudy Mancke, this program examines the challenges of South Carolina’s shrimping industry and follows Errol Hattaway, one of the remaining shrimp boat fishermen in McClellanville, SC.  Program airs Thursday, July 29 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 1 at 4 p.m.

* Outstanding Achievement: Documentary-Historical for “Carolina Stories: Incident at Mars Bluff” “Incident at Mars Bluff” explores how the world’s most technologically advanced air power came to drop a three-ton nuclear device on a small town in South Carolina.  The documentary airs Thursday, July 29 at 9:30 p.m. and Aug. 1 at 4:30 p.m.

These are the second and third Southeastern Region Emmy Awards for ETV's "Carolina Stories" series.  The first award was presented in 2008 for set design for “Pirates of the Carolinas.”

* Outstanding Achievement: Graphic Art- Set Design for “Take on the South: What is the Most Influential Southern Novel of the 20th Century?” In this program, Dr. Walter Edgar talks with Dr. Trudier Harris, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Dr. Noel Polk, Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University, about which Southern novel has been the most influential.

South Carolina ETV is the state's public educational broadcasting network with 11 television and eight radio transmitters, and a multi-media educational system in more than 2,500 schools, colleges, businesses and government agencies. Using television, radio and the web, SCETV's mission is to enrich lives by educating children, informing and connecting citizens, celebrating our culture and environment and instilling the joy of learning.

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For more information, contact Dana McCullough at (803) 737-3212 or dmccullough@scetv.org.