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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • March 11, 2008
PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS GETS NEW HOME AT
NOKIA THEATRE L.A. LIVE
AEG and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Sign
Ten-Year Agreement to Bring Annual Awards to L.A. LIVE
North Hollywood, CA – NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE will be the new home of the Primetime Emmy® Awards beginning with the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards national telecast scheduled for September 21st.
John Shaffner, Chairman & CEO, Board of Governors, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Timothy J. Leiweke, President & CEO, AEG, owners and operators of NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE, announced the move today. Financial terms of the ten-year agreement were not disclosed.
The multi-faceted agreement between AEG and the Television Academy will additionally place the Academy’s 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Show the preceding weekend on Saturday, September 13, at the new 7,100-seat theatre, located across from STAPLES Center within the L.A. LIVE sports and entertainment district.
The agreement also calls for the 2008 Creative Arts and Governor’s Balls to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center which is adjacent to L.A. LIVE.
"We are very excited to be moving to this new state-of-the-art facility for our landmark 60th Primetime Emmy telecast," said Shaffner.
It is anticipated that the various venues within the 4 million sf./18 acre L.A. LIVE will host other programming and ancillary public and private Emmy events during ‘Primetime Emmy Week’ as well as, and throughout the year.
“Having the Primetime Emmy Awards as an ‘anchor tenant’ for L.A. LIVE has been one our highest priorities throughout the development of L.A. LIVE,” Leiweke said.
“While NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE will provide the very best technical elements available in any venue anywhere," Leiweke explained, "the overall environment and atmosphere that the Academy will activate and create throughout the entire district will further establish the Primetime Emmys as one of the industry’s most respected and important awards shows—and one that now is guaranteed to be in Los Angeles for the next decade.
"Thank you to John Shaffner, Frank Kohler and the board of directors for your vision and your commitment," he added. "We won’t let you down.”
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About THE NOKIA Theatre
NOKIA Theatre L. A. LIVE hosts over 120 music, family, dance and comedy acts, award shows, televised productions, conventions and product launches annually. In just the first six months since opening its doors in October 2007, NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE has hosted six nights of the Eagles and Dixie Chicks, Sugarland, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, Anita Baker, the American Music Awards, Mary J. Blige, So You Think You Can Dance Tour, John Mayer, Bjork, John Fogerty, Tori Amos, and George Lopez.
About AEG
AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, is the world’s largest investor in entertainment and sports facilities. AEG is the world’s largest presenter of live sports and entertainment events, world’s largest owner of sports teams and sports events and owner of the world’s most profitable sports and entertainment venues. Additionally, the company is the world’s largest developer of sports and entertainment sponsorship and naming rights.
Having invested billions of dollars in sports, entertainment and media projects, AEG reaches billions of people each year through its facilities, events, music, theater, festivals, sports, films and media assets. Its long history of success in the global sports and entertainment industries includes: the STAPLES Center (Los Angeles, CA), NOKIA Theatre Times Square, NOKIA Theatre at Grand Prairie (TX), the El Rey Theatre (Hollywood, CA), the WaMu Theatre (Seattle, WA), Target Center (Minneapolis, MN) and three just opened arenas, Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO), Prudential Center (Newark, NJ) and the O2, a 28-acre development located in the eastern part of London along the Thames River which includes a 20,000 seat arena and over 650,000sf of leisure and entertainment use.
AEG's sports franchises throughout the world include: the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Los Angeles Riptide (MLL), the Los Angeles Galaxy and Houston Dynamo (MLS), in addition to overseeing privately held management shares of the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA).
AEG developed and operates The Home Depot Center, a $150 million national training facility on the Campus of California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, California, which is designated as an “Official U.S. Olympic Training Site” by the United States Olympic Committee. The facility includes major facilities for soccer, tennis, track & field, cycling, lacrosse, rugby, action sports, beach volleyball, basketball and other sports.
AEG’s live entertainment division, AEG LIVE is one of the world’s leading concert promotion and touring companies with fifteen regional offices and stand-alone affiliate divisions.
Devoted to all aspects of live entertainment, its entities include: AEG LIVE Events, creators and producers of special events of all sizes; AEG-TV, creators of live events for television, DVD, pay-per-view, cinema and other electronic media and AEG LIVE Tours & Special Events, Concerts West, Goldenvoice, The Messina Group and AEG Exhibitions, the company’s national entertainment promotion and touring divisions.
AEG LIVE is currently overseeing the international museum tour of the artifacts of King Tut “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs.” The company also produced Celine Dion: A New Day…Presented By Chrysler, the spectacular theatrical production starring Dion and directed by Franco Dragone that just concluded an unprecedented five-year residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Additionally, AEG LIVE co-produces the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Its southern California-based regional promotion division Goldenvoice created and operates the award-winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
The company has also promoted recent tours starring such recording artists and bands including Prince, Usher, Kenny Chesney, Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Yanni, the Eagles, George Strait, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera, Dixie Chicks, Mylie Cyrus/"Hannah Montana"and stars of American Idol.
AEG is currently overseeing the development of L.A. LIVE, a 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion downtown Los Angeles sports, residential & entertainment district, featuring NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE (a 7,100-seat state-of-the-art live theatre that opened in October, 2007); a 54-story, 1001-room convention center “headquarters” hotel; Club NOKIA L.A. LIVE (2,200 capacity live music venue); a 14-screen Regal Cineplex; “broadcast” facilities for ESPN and more. The company is additionally overseeing entertainment, restaurant, residential, office space and additional arena developments such as O2 World, on a 45-acre site in the heart of Berlin, Citizen’s Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, and in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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About the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded in 1946 just one month after network television was born. It is a non-profit organization devoted to the advancement of telecommunications arts and sciences and to fostering creative leadership in the telecommunications industry.
In addition to recognizing outstanding programming through its Emmy® Award, the Television Academy publishes Emmy® Magazine and stages many industry-related programs, services and year-round events for the television community.
For additional press information and resources concerning the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, please direct your inquiries to Robin Mesger of The Lippin Group at (323) 965-1990.
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Press Contacts
| For the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: |
Robin Mesger/Pam Golum
The Lippin Group
rmesger@lippingroup.com
323-965-1990
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| For AEG: |
Michael Roth
NOKIA L.A. LIVE
213-742-7155
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