The occasion has become a gathering of the electronic clan to talk about what has happened in the past year in the industry and to celebrate those who have done outstanding work. The awards ceremony was hosted by Tom Brokaw and broadcast on PBS stations around the country. His remarks are excerpted here.
Some people collect Chinese porcelain, some collect Persian rugs.
I collect decades. I love wandering, rummaging through old decades in search of glitter and litter, integrity and trash, gibberish and substance. I wander through these decades in a personal and in a thematic way. So leisurely a time. The '60s weren't that carefully plotted either.