TV Academy and NATAS Consider Re-Merger

Fifty years after the TV Academy broke into two, rival Los Angeles- and New York-based organizations, the two sides are exploring a re-merger. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the Television Academy revealed Monday morning that they have started “exploratory t

Almost fifty years after their acrimonious split, the two organizations giving away Emmys may become one again. The Television Academy (fka ATAS), which is behind the Emmy Awards, nd the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), which puts together the Daytime Emmy Awards, have beg