Awards Circuit Column: It's been 50 years since the Emmys split in two. Now the L.A.-based Television Academy and N.Y.'s National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences may finally combine again.
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Last month’s news that the two rival TV academies are looking to reunite was welcome and overdue — but it won’t be as easy as flipping a switch. The Los Angeles-based Television Academy and the New York located National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are run very differently, each having had 50 years to develop its own bureaucratic infrastructure. One insider tells me hundreds of items need to be ironed out before they can become one again. But that doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t.
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