KCETLink Media Group Receives Los Angeles Area Emmy Award Nominations

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KCETLink Media Group Receives 12 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award Nominations

News Program SOCAL CONNECTED Nominated for Best Information/Public Affairs Series

Burbank, Calif. - June 4, 2015 - KCETLink Media Group, a leading national independent non-profit public broadcast and digital network, is proud to announce that it has received 12 nominations for the 67th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards presented by the Los Angeles Television Academy. The stations nominations include nine for its acclaimed news program SOCAL CONNECTED, including best Information/Public Affairs Series; two for its series ARTBOUND; and one for an episode from its CITY WALK series. The 67th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards will be announced on Saturday, July 25 at The Skirball Cultural Center Guerin Pavilion in Herscher Hall.

The 67th Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards nominations for KCETLink Media Group include:

INFORMATION/PUBLIC AFFAIRS SERIES (MORE THAN 50% REMOTE)

SoCal Connected - Overmedicated Elderly

Linda Burns, Senior Producer; Alicia Clark, Associate Producer; Conor Knighton, Reporter; Cara Santa Maria, Reporter; Robert J. McDonnell, Associate Producer; Lata Pandya, Associate Producer; Jennifer Sabih, Reporter; Derrick Shore, Reporter; Val Zavala, Anchor, Executive Producer

L.A. LOCAL COLOR

City Walk - Walk Stars - Satellite Beach

Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Steve Reich, Co-Executive Producer; Thomas Rigler, Executive Producer

FEATURE SEGMENT

SoCal Connected - Bottle to Bottle: The Future of Recycling

Derrick Shore, Reporter

SoCal Connected - Clare Graham

Nik Cha Kim, Reporter

Artbound - Gallery Tally

Don Broida, Producer; Matthew Crotty, Producer; Juan Devis, Executive Producer; Marielle Noble, Producer

SoCal Connected - Natural History Museums Citizen Science Insect Labeling Project

Cara Santa Maria, Reporter

Artbound - Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras

Nik Cha Kim, Co-Producer

INFORMATION SEGMENT

SoCal Connected - Going Nuts in Southern California

Jennifer Sabih, Reporter

SoCal Connected - Overmedicating the Elderly

Lata Pandya, Producer; Val Zavala, Reporter

SoCal Connected - Processed Human Waste as Fertilizer - The Stinky Controversy

Lata Pandya, Associate Producer; Derrick Shore, Reporter

SoCal Connected - Saving the Salton Sea

Zach Behrens, Associate Producer

OUTSTANDING WRITER - PROGRAMMING

Conor Knighton, Writer

ABOUT KCETLINK MEDIA GROUP

KCETLink Media Group is a national independent, nonprofit, digital and broadcast network that provides high-quality, culturally diverse programming designed to engage the public in innovative, entertaining and transformative ways. With a commitment to independent perspectives, smart global entertainment, local communities, and opportunities for engagement and social action, KCETLink depicts people and the world through a lens unavailable elsewhere in U.S. media. A viewer-supported 501(c)(3) organization, KCETLink content is distributed nationally via satellite on Link TV - DIRECTV channel 375 and DISH Network channel 9410 - and on KCET in Southern and Central California via broadcast and cable, as well as through various digital delivery systems. For additional information about KCET and Link TV productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org or linktv.org.

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