First Emmy Awards Marker outside the Hollywood Athletic
Club. 

The first Emmy Awards ceremony, which was televised, was held
on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club (below). The a
wards recognize excellence in television, which in the 1940s was
a novel medium and only 4,000 homes in Los Angeles had televisions.      
 

The awards were hosted by Walter O’Keefe who substituted for
Rudy Vallée when he had to leave town at the last minute.
   

Most Outstanding Television Personality: Twenty-year-old Shirley Dinsdale and her puppet sidekick “Judy Splinters” (below) for
‘The Judy Splinters Show.’   

Stanley Rubin (second from the right) holds his Emmy award
for "The Necklace" at the first Emmy Awards, Los Angeles.

The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The awards recognize excellence
in television (which in the 1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sid Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank Capra
who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and an
entertainment journalist.

SANDY KOZEL

Hitler (seated second from left) poses with members of his
first cabinet in the chancellery.

Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (January 20, 1929 – July 3, 2019)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Arte Johnson, who won an Emmy for comedy
sketch work on the television show "Laugh-In," has died in Los Angeles.

Family representative Harlan Boll says Johnson died early Wednesday of
heart failure following a three-year battle with bladder and prostate cancer.

No services have been planned, but his ashes will be spread in a private
ceremony.

Marlin Perkins (left) and Jim  Fowler.

Jim Fowler (April 9, 1930 – May 8, 2019)

Fowler was an professional zoologist and host of the Emmy 
Award–winning television show Mutual of Omaha’s Wild 
Kingdom.

Jim Fowler (left) on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(middle).