LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony honoring the best in TV.
\n\nThe agreement announced Tuesday means a shift to the streaming services that have come to utterly dominate the prestige categories at the Emmys.
\n\nThe show has aired on one of the four broadcast networks every year since 1955. NBC was first to air it nationally, and was the last to host it last month. For the past three decades it has been in a yearly rotation between ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in what was known as the “Wheel Deal.”
\n\nHaving a single, long-term home starting with next September’s 79th Primetime Emmy Awards may be the biggest change.
\n\n“Continuity is a big part of what we’re looking for because the rotating part of it basically meant in many ways that we were starting over every year,” Cris Abrego, chairman of the Television Academy, told The Associated Press. “With one partner over six years, we can really learn together and build from year to year together.”
\n\nThe Emmys will…
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