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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘JEOPARDY!’ WINS 15th OUTSTANDING GAME SHOW EMMY® AWARD
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (April 26, 2015) – The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) honored JEOPARDY! today with the 2015 Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Game Show at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards ceremony at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif.
The award marks the fifteenth time JEOPARDY! has won in this category; it won the 2014 Emmy in this category as well.
The 2015 JEOPARDY! Emmy® Award winners for Outstanding Game Show are as follows:
· Executive Producer Harry Friedman
· Supervising Producers Lisa Broffman, Rocky Schmidt
· Senior Producer Deb Dittmann
· Coordinating Producer Bob Sofia
· Producers Brett Schneider, Maggie Speak
· Editorial Producer Billy Wisse
With tonight’s win, JEOPARDY! extends its Guinness World Records® title for most Emmy® Awards won by a TV Game Show to 32 awards.
For a complete list of winners, please visit http://emmyonline.com/daytime.
JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show® and its host, Alex Trebek, are celebrating their 31st season. The top-ranked quiz show, with 25 million viewers each week, JEOPARDY! holds the Guinness World Records® title for the most Emmy® Awards won by a TV game show (32 Emmys), including the 2015 Emmy® for Outstanding Game Show. In 2014, JEOPARDY! won the inaugural Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Writing for Quiz and Audience Participation; it is also the recipient of a 2011 Peabody Award. JEOPARDY! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company; it is distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by CBS Television International, both units of CBS Corp. For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com.
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