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{{Infobox award
| name = Emmy Awards
| image = Emmy Awards.png
| imagesize = 250px
| caption = Comedian [[Garry Shandling]] during the rehearsal of the [[45th Primetime Emmy Awards]], in September 1993logo
| awarded_for = Excellence in the television industry
| presenter = [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|ATAS]]/[[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|NATAS]]/[[International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|IATAS]]
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{{Emmy Awards sidebar}}
 
The '''Emmy Awards''', or '''Emmys''', are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and internationalworldwide [[television industry]]. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] and the [[Daytime Emmy Awards]], which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the [[Children's & Family Emmy Awards]] for children's and family-oriented television programming, the [[Sports Emmy Awards]] for sports programming, [[News & Documentary Emmy Awards]] for news and documentary shows, and the [[Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards]] and the [[Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards]] for technological and engineering achievements. [[#Regional|Regional Emmy Awards]] are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, the [[International Emmy Award]]s honor excellence in TV programming produced and initially aired outside the United States.
 
The Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, is named after "immy", an informal term for the [[Video camera tube#Image orthicon|image orthicon tube]] that was common in early television cameras.<ref name="emmyHistory"/><ref name="History of the Emmy Statue"/> It is considered one of the [[EGOT|four major annual American entertainment awards]], along with the [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]] for music, the [[Academy Awards|Oscar (Academy Award)]] for film, and the [[Tony Awards|Tony]] for Broadway theatre.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/09/070917_emmy.shtml |title=BBC Learning English &#124; Emmy awards |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=September 17, 2007 |access-date=February 23, 2013}}</ref>
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==See also==
;===Emmy related===
* [[List of Daytime Emmy Award winners]]
* [[List of Primetime Emmy Award winners]]
* [[List of International Emmy Award winners]]
 
;===Other similar awards===
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* [[List of American television awards]]