Get credit where credit is due! -- Enter your work in the 2010-2011 Chicago/Midwest Emmy® Awards -- where excellence is celebrated AND rewarded. Add a Nomination to your resume and the Regional Emmy® statuette to your shelf. Review your best work from the last year and remember you must enter to be eligible to win.

Deadline for Entries: Friday, June 17, 2011, 5:00 pm

Eligibility Period: June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011

Markets Covered: Chicago, IL; Rockford, IL; Green Bay-Appleton, WI; Madison, WI; Milwaukee, WI; Peoria-Bloomington, IL;South Bend-Elkhart, IN; Wausau-Rhinelander, WI

Please download the CALL FOR ENTRIES PDF document for more information on entering. Entry Fees: Cat. 1-18 - $125 for members, $210 for non-members;
Cat. 19-28 - $95 for members, $180 for non-members.

Please see the College Call for Entries PDF for information on entering the College Production Awards. Also, look for the STUDENT CATEGORIES S-1 to S-5 that are listed near the end of the category list once you enter the Emmy® Express Entering System online.

Please read through the CALL FOR ENTRIES PDF before you enter. The CALL FOR ENTRIES contains all the vital information you will need to enter. Also, follow the "Step by Step" document as you enter. Both documents are listed on the left hand side once you enter EMMY® EXPRESS. For questions on preparing your entry, call the NATAS Chicago/Midwest office (312) 369-8600 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Our mailing address is NATAS Chicago, 218 S. Wabash, Ste. 700, Chgo, IL 60604.

ENTER HERE (CLICK HERE) -- Emmy® Express Online Entering System (Emmy and College Entries use same online entry system)

To enter, please go through the Emmy® Express system online. Emmy® Express is our online entry solution designed to make the entry process as easy as possible. The entire process takes about 5 – 10 minutes per entry. At the end of the process, you will be able to print out your entry form based on the text you fill out online in Emmy® Express. Through Emmy® Express, you can also pay online with a credit card or indicate that you will be paying by check/money order. To submit more than one entry, simply repeat the process and at the end, be sure to choose your payment option. The actual video content is not submitted online. Only the information for the entry form and payment is submitted online. The actual video is accepted only on DVD (see p. 5 and p. 10 in Call for Entries PDF for more information on how to prepare your DVD). Fees for Emmy® entries on listed on p. 8 of the Call for Entries PDF.

Produce NEWS or PROGRAMMING for your College or University? We now have new crystal-pillar eligible student production categories! Look for the STUDENT CATEGORIES S-1 to S-5 that are listed near the end of the category list or see our College Call for Entries PDF for more information.

• Are you from a smaller market? You may ask if you have a chance of receiving an Emmy in a chapter that contains the large Chicago market. However, please know that entries are judged against a standard of excellence and do not compete against each other. We have had many winners over the years from small and medium markets. As long as the work is excellent, you may win an Emmy® Award.
• Produce LOCAL COMMERCIALS for businesses or for your station? We have a COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT category, past winners include Superspots and the Chicago Blackhawks!
• Produce outstanding PUBLIC ACCESS Television? Public Access programs are eligible! Recently, Rocket Productions won for their production "El Camino a la Secundaria" which aired on Chicago's CAN-TV!
• The Chicago/Midwest Chapter has not raised the entry fees for nearly a decade! In this tough economy, we're trying hard to keep our fees low despite rising costs.

"An Emmy® is a universally-known symbol of excellence. Being able to add that to my list of accomplishments only adds to my credibility as a New Media journalist and helped open doors for me in the industry."

-- Marcus Riley, NBC 5 Chicago, Chicago/Midwest Emmy® winner

Entry and payment must be submitted online. If for some reason, you can not enter your entry online, email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for an entry form or download it here: Off-line Emmy® Entry Form. The form can be used for 2010-2011 entries as well. Please contact the TV Academy office for more information at 312-369-8600 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Q. With the tough economy, is there a chance the entry fees could be reduced or lowered? 

A. Members do receive a lower entry fee, but the Chicago/Midwest Chapter has actually not raised the entry fees for nearly a decade. The entry fees have to cover the costs of the Emmy® statues, Emmy® nomination certificates, printing of Emmy® invitations, shipping of DVDs to be judged by other markets, judging fees to sister-chapters for providing peer judging panels, the photocopied lists of entries and nominees at the Nomination Party, expenses for the Emmy® Express online software for entries and the entrant database, and keeping the Chapter up and running year long.

Additionally, most Chapters charge a per name fee for entries, so a typical news report entry with a producer and reporter, for example, requires that both pay a fee to enter. Our Chapter has worked very hard scrutinizing cost-saving measures to be able to hold the line and keep charging only one fee per entry no matter how many names are included on the entry.

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