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Important dates:

     Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 - Deadline for entries

     Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 - Video upload deadline

     Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 - Entry list posted at www.emmysf.tv

     Friday, April 11, 2014 - Last day to add names to entries

     Wednesday, May 7, 2014 (noon) - Nominations Announced at www.emmysf.tv

     Saturday, June 14, 2014 - Emmy� Gala at San Francisco Hilton Union Square 

     On Saturday, February 8th from 2:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m. PT, NATAS will be hosting a panel discussion "How to Protect Your Intellectual Property Rights When You Publish Your Work Online" during the California Lawyers for the Arts' (CLA) 31st Annual Music Business Seminar, "21st Century Musician" at Boalt Hall in Berkeley, CA.
     "How to Protect Your Intellectual Property Rights When You Publish Your Work Online" is a NATAS crossover panel dealing with rights issues that are common between musicians and media professionals. We will be covering options that producers have to distribute/publish their work online, for example what is involved with granting different levels of Creative Commons rights. Through their presentations, the expert panel will explore: the pros and cons of existing methods of online distribution, legal protections and best practices.  
     This NATAS panel discussion session will be webcast live to all NATAS members nationally, and there will be opportunities for the online audience to ask the panel questions in the Q&A session. This webcast is free for all NATAS members. For more details and to register for the free webcast go to: 

Jeffrey Brandstetter

The Music Business (Explained in Plain English), and has been published in multiple national publications, including Entertainment & Sports Lawyer and the Entertainment, Publishing & the Arts Handbook.   In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Brandstetter is also the CEO and Co-Founder of IndiePlaya <www.indieplaya.com>, the revolutionary online independent film distribution and marketing platform that optimizes direct-to-consumer sales to highly targeted audiences with bleeding-edge DIY marketing tools and business intelligence.

Mike Fleming

Mike Fleming creates video and multimedia productions for corporations, small business, government, non-profits, musicians and individuals. He is also the Founder and Bandleader of San Francisco's own Barbary Coast Allstars (BCA). He has shared the stage with a host of talented musicians including Wynard Harper, Freddie Roulette and has opened for The John Lee Hooker Band, Blue Riddem', and many others. Fleming likes to mix his originals into the set list with popular cover songs in what he calls "the 3 R's; Rock, Reggae and R&B" with a little bit of Country mixed in for flavor. This mix of styles is right in line with the emergence of "AMERICANA" as the hottest new musical genre, which is what Johnson plays both solo and with the band. Johnson gives back to the music community serving as the San Francisco Coordinator for Nashville Songwriter's Association and Co-Manager of the West Coast Songwriter's, Berkeley Chapter's monthly Song Competition at the very popular Freight & Salvage. He also is a frequent guest host at the Ireland's 32, which is one of San Francisco's longest continually-running Open Mics.

Jarid S. Johnson

Jarid S. Johnson has worked in media production since 1974. His careers in photography, technical theater, radio and television provide a varied and solid foundation for his work as a Director of Photography. In addition to studio and long lens work, Johnson is a highly skilled hand-held camera operator. Since 1989, he has shot live music at every venue in the San Francisco Bay Area. Johnson is also an accomplished editor; when shooting, he composes and creates sequences with an eye toward the final edit. He is also the founder of AMPsf, Artist Media Productions, providing musicians with promotional tools to engage their fans on the internet using 'movies for musicians.' His most recent projects include producing blues legend Elvin Bishop's first concert DVD, nominated for a 2012 Blues Music Award and promotional concert footage for Vienna Teng. He is currently in post-production on a documentary shot in the Caribbean entitled "Musicians with a Real Purpose: Jamaica & Haiti."

Cynthia Zeiden Moderator

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By Kevin Wing

Regional Vice President, San Francisco

      Martin Yan has been showing us how to cook Chinese food on television for more than 35 years. He has not only shown us how to do it through his immensely popular Yan Can Cook and numerous how-to cookbooks, but he has entertained us along the way, with his friendly demeanor, good sense of humor and welcoming, engaging personality.

      What has the Emmy Award-winning Yan been up to lately? His MY China restaurants (the "MY" represent Yan's initials), located in San Francisco and Rohnert Park, celebrated their first anniversary in December. Located on San Francisco's Market Street and at Rohnert Park's Graton Casino, respectively, the restaurants are a live, in-person experience of his TV shows for visitors. With two locations under Yan's belt, he says more are planned in the future.

      "See, taste and discover," Yan says. "We want people to discover the ingredients of each dish and how we put it all together. We bring this to them in the restaurants."

     While the longtime Bay Area resident's (Yan resides in the South Bay) restaurants were being launched, behind the scenes, Yan was quietly working on a new cooking show, based on his travels to Asia. And, later this year, that new show - Martin Yan's Taste of Vietnam - will debut on PBS, produced by his production company, Yan Can Cook, Inc.

     "In the last 10, 15 years, I've traveled all around the world, focusing on food, culture, heritage and tourism," Yan says. "I spent about three or four months every year, spending time traveling, eating, cooking with master chefs, in southeast Asia. I gained a lot of knowledge, and now I want to share that knowledge with everybody on PBS and other channels."

     Yan's new show will have the best of both worlds when it comes to a television production. Part of it will feature what has been shot overseas. The other portion of the show, of course, will include the in-studio cooking segments, all of which were shot in November and December at a studio in Emeryville, not far from Pixar studios. Yan recently invited Off Camera for an exclusive behind-the-scenes preview of the show during the recent tapings. The studio is expansive, ultra-modern, and it is equipped with all the modern technological necessities. And the fanciest kitchen appliances. Every cooking show needs a camera pointing down from the ceiling to show what's being made on the stove or countertop. Besides the show being produced as a traditional three-camera set-up, there are also miniature GoPro cameras everywhere imaginable to give viewers a true feeling that they are there. Even if they could somehow fit in the refrigerator or in the oven (yes, there are GoPros in both).

    Yan says his new show will be unique.

    "This is the first one that, I think, anyone has ever done in the U.S. market that focuses on Vietnam with 26 episodes," Yan explains. "I know Gordon Ramsay and a lot of other chefs have done it, but they normally have done one or two programs. But, to do a series of 26 shows that can be broadcast for six months, then repeated for another six months, for a whole year. And people can really understand the culture, the heritage, the history, architecture, arts and crafts of Vietnam."

   Demonstrating his talents via cooking shows and writing about food in books all these years stems from a premise near and dear to Yan's heart.

   "I love people, I love sharing," Yan says. "And you probably also know that food is about sharing. If you cook the food and you don't share, that's not good."

   That certainly has been just fine with his fans. Yan Can Cook has been on the air for more than 30 years.

   "It's one of the longest running cooking shows on the planet," Yan says, proudly. "We've aired more than 3,500 cooking shows."

   As for the Vietnamese cuisine theme for the new show, Yan says "we take people on a tour of Vietnam. We take them all over. From the mountains to the valleys, we take you to the city. Basically, we take you everywhere we went on our travels. We spent three months on location shooting footage for all 26 episodes."

   Yan has decided to hold off on the debut of the new show until late this summer.

   "In early summer, a lot of people are on vacation," he explains. "This way, the show's debut in late summer will allow the new shows to play through next Christmas. Six months of new programming. Then, the shows can be repeated for the next six months, into 2015."

   Many would say that Yan is a natural for what he does in front of the camera. After all, he's been doing it since 1978. But, to listen to him speak modestly, he would portray himself differently.

   'I was never trained to be on camera," Yan says. "But, I love to cook, I love to eat. And because of that, I continue to learn. I think if you love what you do and enjoy what you do, it can become contagious. So, basically, I'm just showing my enthusiasm and excitement and also my passion, with the audience."

   And, Yan will be doing just that, once again, this summer.

By Justine Waldman

Chapter Board of Governors

         Stanley Roberts walked into the KRON 4 newsroom to a thunderous applause. 

       "That had never happened to me before," Roberts told me of the reaction his co-workers had when he returned from his rather unusual assignment. Stanley spent his day reuniting a music legend with a homeless man in East Oakland.

       And it almost didn't happen.

       For the last eight years, Roberts has put together the very popular People Behaving Badly segment on KRON 4 News. He exposes toll evaders and people who bring their pets into restaurants, even drivers who ignore stop signs. He captures, with his camera rolling, regular folks bending and breaking the rules. Then he confronts them about it. That is what makes the sparks needed for his television shtick. Some people apologize or make excuses. Others cuss and run from him as fast as they can. "It is not always that glamorous or rewarding. But I love it," Roberts says.

      While doing a typical story on illegal dumping, Roberts stumbled across Marcus Malone. He was homeless and picking through trash on the street.

An Unexpected Reunion  Music legend Carlos Santana (left), catches up with Marcus  Malone, a homeless man who is a former member of  Santana's band.

      Roberts, who is not afraid to start up a conversation with anyone, asked Malone why he was there. He wasn't doing anything wrong, but Roberts thought he might add some insight in to what people toss on the road. Malone told Roberts that one time he found cash in the pockets of abandoned pants. He wanted to use the money to buy music equipment because he was part of the original Santana Blues Band. Malone said he was there in the Bay Area garage where the band got its start. 

      Roberts pushed a little harder. Malone admitted he had gotten in trouble, spent time in prison and fell out of touch with all the people in his life.

     It was a chance meeting and a very honest conversation. It would change lives.

     "I just did what any journalist would have done," Roberts says.

     Always on deadline, Roberts put together his story on illegal dumping and included Malone talking about finding the money and his musical past. 

Everybody's Everything Carlos Santana, In Oakland, On The Day Of The Reunion With Marcus Malone.

   "I almost didn't put it in. I thought I might get blowback from it. But I am so glad I did," Roberts says. 

     The story on illegal dumping aired, and Roberts went off to enjoy his weekend. That could have been it. But he was still curious if Malone was telling the truth.  He did some research online and found a few photos of Malone with Carlos Santana. "Trust but verify," is a motto Roberts says he lives by. But then what? How could he make some good out of this?

     Thank goodness for Facebook. 

     Roberts, no stranger to the odd viewer comment (both positive and negative) got a message on the social media site in his inbox. It was from Santana's manager. They had seen the story on illegal dumping and recognized Malone. Roberts was shocked, saying "the manager told me Santana had gone out looking in East Oakland for Marcus but he could not find him. He wanted to reconnect and get him off the streets. But they needed my help."

     So Roberts went out on a mission to find Marcus again and bring Santana with him. No pressure.

     Roberts went back to East Oakland and scoured the streets. He asked other homeless people if they knew where Malone was and knocked on every trailer, camper and car he thought Malone might be staying in. It took time and his persistence paid off.

     Now, with his camera rolling, Roberts captured a reunion decades in the making. There was nothing bad, illegal or embarrassing about it. Simply, a touching, heartwarming and genuine moment.

     Roberts arranged to have Santana wait a block or so away from where Malone was staying. Then, he got Malone to walk down the street with him. He only needed to convince the man something good was going to happen. Roberts got his camera out. They turned the corner and Santana got out of a sport-utility vehicle. 

     It was a moment made for television. Santana and Malone embraced each other and shared a huge hug. With smiles across their faces they reconnected right away. It was as if time never passed between them, though one is a mega-superstar and the other is a man who lives on the streets. Roberts says "it was very emotional."

     Then came the standing ovation in the newsroom. When Roberts returned, telling KRON that he had brought together Santana and Malone, there was no holding backth wi how proud all of his colleagues were of Roberts. He trusted his gut and tried to make something positive happen. He played the raw footage to a few people huddled around his desk. 

     "Grown men I have worked with for years were crying when they watched it," he says. "I couldn't believe it."

Musician Meets Journalist Carlos Santana, With KRON's Stanley Roberts

Then it was off for a holiday vacation. "I really thought that was it," he recalls.

     But, as awesome things do, the story went viral overnight. "Next thing I know all hell breaks loose," Roberts says. "I am getting messages from around the world telling me how much the story meant to them. I'm talking Twitter and Facebook notes from people in China, Greece and Ecuador. One just came in from Honduras."

     "Getting praise from journalists I respect was one thing, knowing you have inspired people and made a difference in a stranger's life is another," Roberts says. "It just blew my mind."

     While he was supposed to be taking time-off, he was doing national cable show interviews on how he became the liaison between Santana and Malone. While people do love to see others 'behaving badly', they also love a story that makes them feel good.  All it took was fate, curiosity, determination and remembering to hit record on the camera.

     Malone and Santana are in touch. Good things are in store for the former band member.

     Roberts knows there is no shortage of people behaving badly. His time with Malone and Santana "was a once in a lifetime thing and I'm glad we could help. This was a gift."

     And that deserves a round of applause.

Gold & Silver Circle Profiles returns in the February issue of Off Camera. 

     This is your opportunity to honor the careers and contributions of our NATAS chapter's most distinguished television colleagues by nominating them to the Gold & Silver Circle Class of 2014.

     The Gold Circle honors individuals who have been actively engaged in television broadcasting for 50 years or more (with at least half of those years in the chapter region) and who have fulfilled the same criteria as Silver Circle nominees. Gold Circle inductees are elected by the NATAS Chapter Board of Governors.

     Neither the candidate nor the nominator need be a member of NATAS.

Gold Circle Application Form 

     Inductees will join the ranks of television luminaries such as: Belva Davis, Roberta Gonzalez, Spencer Christian, Jim Swanson, Don Ford, Pam Moore, Marty Gonzalez, Ysabel Dur�n, Pete Wilson, Barbara Rodgers, Kevin Wing, Dave McElhatton, Wendy Tokuda, Rigo Chacon, Sydnie Kohara, John Kessler, Dennis Richmond, Belva Davis, Ross McGowan, Ed Pearce (Reno), Nancy Osborne(Fresno), Pam Young (Hawaii), Dan Adams (Sacramento), Suzanne Shaw, Luis Echegoyen, Rita Williams, Don McCuaig, Shirley Temple Black, Charles Schulz, Jack Hanson, Jim Vargas, Don Sanchez, Joe Fonzi, Cheryl Hurd, Jack LaLanne andElaine LaLanne.

     The Induction Luncheon will take place this Fall at the Wyndham Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco.

 More information on the Gold & Silver Circle

        Tom Raponi, KTVU and KICU TV36 vice president and general manager, made the announcement last month.

        Poitras, who left KTVU in 2003 after a 15-year career there, is returning to lead the marketing teams at KTVU as well as at KICU TV36. 

Steve Poitras  Returns To KTVU This Month

The award-winning Poitras joined KTVU as a writer/producer in 1988. He took over as marketing director in 1990 and led the promotional efforts at KTVU until he joined KPIX in San Francisco in 2003 as marketing director there. 

        While at KPIX, Poitras rose to station manager before joining KTLA in Los Angeles in 2008. While at KTLA, Poitras rebranded the iconic station with a complete redesign of logo, on-air graphics, news set and music. In 2012, he joined KFMB-TV in San Diego.

        "I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with such a talented marketing professional again," Raponi says. "Steve made many significant contributions to KTVU and TV36 during the time we worked together from 1996 through 2003. Steve has a passion for our stations and a special talent for creating remarkable connections with our viewers and community. We all look forward to welcoming Steve home and are excited to see the next chapter of his success."

        Poitras is a graduate of UCLA's motion picture television department and has been a Bay Area resident since 1983. "Having built my career at one of America's finest television stations, the idea of returning to the city and station I love is a tremendous feeling", Poitras says. "Coming back to the Bay Area to KTVU and TV36 is like coming home. In my heart, I never left."

        Poitras contributed to KTVU's success in many different ways during his first tenure at the station. He was responsible for launching Mornings on 2, which debuted in 1991, with a custom rendition of "It's a Beautiful Morning." In addition, many viewers will recall "The Original 10 o'Clock News - It's Our Time, Period" which pre-empted CBS' KPIX and then-NBC affiliate KRON's efforts to invade KTVU's 10 p.m. news time slot. Poitras was also responsible for creating and producing the highly regarded "Classical Gas" tribute to KTVU's 40^th anniversary, in 1998.

       Poitras is the recipient of many local and national awards including Emmys, Promax Gold, and the recipient of Promax's first-ever BrandBuilder award.  

        Like Steve Poitras, Lisa Yokota is another veteran of KTVU Channel 2 who is returning to the Jack London Square studios. 

        Yokota returns to KTVU and KICU TV36 as its new community and public affairs Director. A 20 year-veteran of progressive broadcast marketing and community outreach projects, Yokota will lead both stations' community outreach efforts, including "Family 2 Family" and COX Media Group's philanthropic initiatives, such as "COX Conserves."

Lisa Yokota  KTVU's new Community and Public Affairs Director

        Prior to joining KTVU, Yokota was marketing director at KTSF-TV, where she developed and led implementation of public affairs programs and various community service projects. She also brings Silicon Valley experience as promotion manager at Yahoo! 

        Yokota previously held the position of sales and promotion director at KTVU. In that role, she developed eye-catching retail campaigns for KTVU advertisers.

        Tom Raponi, KTVU and KICU TV36 vice-president and general manager, is excited about her return to the Bay Area. 

        "Lisa Yokota has been a very well-respected broadcast professional in the San Francisco market for many years, and we welcome her back home to KTVU and TV36," Raponi says. "Her expertise in marketing and community outreach is a perfect fit for our stations to continue to serve our community at the highest levels." 

       "My primary goal is to be a resource to the community," Yokota says, "to advocate for them as well as the station."

       Reinvigorating the long-running KTVU "Family 2 Family" project which promotes educational and community concerns will be an important objective for Yokota.  She will also actively work with COX Media Group as a whole on "COX Conserves Heroes," a program which honors the Bay Area's unsung environmental volunteers and inspires neighborhood conservation.

Brent Boynton  Promoted To Vice President, News And Production

       KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting announces the promotion of Brent Boynton, Emmy-nominated television journalist, to vice president, news and production.  Boynton joined KNPB in 2012 as news director and currently hosts its community affairs programs, A Conversation and Open Lines.

      As a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, Boynton has spent more than three decades working in television news including time at both KTVN and KOLO. He also served as communications director for former Governor Jim Gibbons.

      "Brent is a valuable member of the KNPB team," says Kurt Mische, the station's president and chief exeutive officer. "We hold his commitment to journalistic excellence and dedication to quality programming in very high regard and look forward to his continued efforts as our new vice president of news and production."

     "News is in my blood - it's what I love," Boynton says. "Since my first unofficial 'broadcast' from home at the age of 4 to my first real news job as a radio announcer in Texas, I still look forward to going to work every single day and cherish the things I get to do with a station like KNPB that is so committed to helping others in the community."

     Boynton holds a Bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University and a Master's degree in mass communications from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he has also taught journalism. He serves on the boards of directors of Step 1, Inc., and Lunch Aid.

By Kevin Wing

Regional Vice President, San Francisco

      Loren Nancarrow, who worked at KPIX in San Francisco as a news anchor and reporter in the late 1980s and early 1990s but who prominently spent the majority of his 30-plus years in the industry on San Diego television, has died.

      Nancarrow died Dec. 28, just 11 months after he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, in February.

      Nancarrow was 60 years old.

Loren Nancarrow  San Diego TV Icon, Former KPIX  Anchor Died Of Cancer Dec. 28

      He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.

      Nancarrow's television career spanned more than three decades and included stints as a weatherman, news anchor, reporter and environmental reporter. He joined KFMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, in 1980, working as a reporter and anchor. In 1988, Nancarrow left KFMB-TV to move to the Bay Area to join KPIX as an anchor. Known for his calm delivery during breaking news situations, Nancarrow excelled in the hours and days following the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989.

     In 1991, Nancarrow took advantage of the opportunity to return to San Diego, rejoining KFMB-TV as its weathercaster and environmental reporter. He remained at the CBS station until 1998, when he moved across town to ABC affiliate KGTV to become its weathercaster and environmental reporter. He was a huge proponent of growing food organically, preserving the environment and living sustainably. During his tenure at KGTV, he turned his backyard into the "10News Ranch", regularly filing live and taped weather and environmental reports from there.

    In recent years, Nancarrow had been anchoring the news at KSWB, the Fox affiliate in San Diego.

    A five-time Emmy Award winner, Nancarrow also co-authored four organic gardening books.

    Nancarrow was diagnosed with stage three terminal brain cancer in February, and later retired from his anchor position at KSWB. He called himself a "Brain Cancer Warrior", and authored a blog about life, and life with cancer.

    Nancarrow, who lived in Solana Beach, just north of San Diego, is survived by his wife, Susie, and children, Graham, Hannah and Britta.

    On Dec. 30, a memorial paddle out and beach gathering was held at South Cardiff State Beach in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, in northern San Diego County, to celebrate Nancarrow's life. Thousands of people turned out, from friends and colleagues to community leaders and television viewers. 

    Nancarrow's wife and family are working to establish a healing garden in his name at the Scripps Radiation Therapy Center. His family says it is the perfect way to honor Nancarrow, who cared so deeply about the environment and helping others who are fighting cancer. So far, $50,000 has been pledged online.

      The 2014 James Beard Foundation Awards are now accepting entries for the Broadcast & New Media Awards. Entry forms are completed online and can be found at 

       For the Outstanding Personality/Host category, judges look for: the host's knowledge of content, presentation, communication skills, style and appeal.

      Fees are $100 per entry for members and $135 for non-members. (On the payment page, there is an option for non-members to become members for $29.)

      The Broadcast and New Media entry deadline is Jan. 9.  Nominees will be announced on March 18, and their submissions posted on the James Beard website.   

      The Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards Dinner will be held on May 2 in New York City.

Make sense? Well, to set the record straight:

(B&W Left to Right) Jack Hanson, Steve Davis, Marcia Brandwynne, Tom Janis, Fred Van Amburg, Jerry Jensen, Pete Giddings and Don Sanchez.

Don started his career at KSBY in San Luis Obispo in 1963.

He was inducted into the Silver Circle in 2000 and received the chapter's highest honor, the Governors' Award, at the Emmy� gala last June.

       The number of people who need help putting food on the table for their families seems to grow each year, putting added stress on food banks trying to help them.  That's why events in Reno, like KTVN's Share Your Christmas Drive By Food Drive, are so important. 

       On Dec. 13, employees of Reno's CBS affiliate put most of their regular TV duties on hold to collect food and money for several of the area's food banks.  This is the 21^st year KTVN has partnered with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada and a number of other local charities to spend a full day, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., collecting food and money.

       The news, production and engineering teams from the station split up and headed out to three locations in northern Nevada: the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, the Nevada Governor's Mansion in Carson City and the Carson Valley Inn in Minden.  

       In addition to collecting donations, the station devotes more than seven hours of live coverage through the day to the event. By the end of the day, thousands of people had driven through the three collection sites donating 183,000 pounds of food and $240,000 - not to mention several bins of toys for the Toys for Tots program. 

Making It Happen In The Community KTVN Helps In A Big Way Throughout Northern Nevada During The Holiday Season.

      "When it comes to having an impact on our community and the viewers we serve, this is the most important thing we do as a television station all year long," says KTVN News Director Jason Pasco.  "I'm proud we have so many people in our station who are invested in a successful outcome and work year after year to collect more food and money than the year before." 

     Jocelyn Lantrip, spokeswoman with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada, says "KTVN Channel 2 is a true partner in helping us to solve hunger.  Their unbelievable commitment during the Share Your Christmas Drive By Food Drive is staggering to us.  Not only do they devote so many resources to this event, but they bring to light the very serious issue of hunger throughout the year.  Our ability to keep up with the unbelievable increases in need that we have seen over the last few years has been made possible by the efforts of the KTVN News Team."