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Written by Tom Lorenz on 2025-01-25 at 17:10

Per my History Channel daily desk calendar, today is the anniversary of the first Emmy Awards presentation in 1949. It also gave me the answer to where the name Emmy came from: “The name ‘Emmy’ was a feminized version of ‘immy,’ the shorthand term for the image orthicon tube that was used in TV cameras until the 1960s.” #TheMoreYouKnow

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