 TV
Guide Awards - In 1999, with the debut of the TV Guide
Channel, TV Guide
magazine presented its first "TV Guide Awards" on February 1, 1999 on
the Fox Channel. The awards (honoring TV favorites in 14 categories)
reflected a tally of 1,266,440 ballots gathered from 28 million
ballots distributed by TV Guide readers. The award trophy is
manufactured by American Metal Arts Studios in Canoga Park,
California
The following is an excerpt from the first 1999 annual TV Guide
Awards program as the children's education show SESAME STREET accepts
their award:
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Roscoe Orman: |
Wow! This is great.
Isn't it it wonderful Big Bird? |
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Big Bird: |
It's really great.
Boy, everybody here seems to be very excited. Why are they so
excited? |
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Roscoe Orman: |
Because Big Bird we
just won this wonderful award. |
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Ruth Buzzi: |
And over a million
people voted! |
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Big Bird: |
Over a million
people! Well, ah what does "voted" mean? |
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Roscoe Orman: |
Voting, Big Bird,
is when people put a check mark to someone's name on a piece of
paper called a ballot. |
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Ruth Buzzi: |
And then the
ballots are counted and then whoever has the most check marks
next to his or her name...is the winner. |
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Big Bird: |
Wow! Well, what
happens to the winners after they win? |
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Ruth Buzzi: |
They get impeached! [ a comic poke
at then President Bill Clinton and his Lewinsky-Whitewater
affairs] |
Before the TV Guide Awards, there was the J.Fred Muggs
Awards, in-print booby prize that premiered in the 1/9/82
issue of TV Guide magazine. The J. Fred Muggs Awards honored the bleeps, blunders and monkey
business seen on television. As they put it, "Here is our salute to
the foot-in-the-mouth utterances and other minor disturbances of the
past TV season."
Named after J. Fred Muggs the chimpanzee who shared
the morning spotlight with newscaster/host Dave Garroway on NBC'S
TODAY SHOW in the 1950s, the award (pictured as a "golden
banana") was discontinued and replaced by the Annual Zap Awards
introduced in January 6, 1990. The award (named the "Zapper" a.k.a.
the "remote control"), was the video equivalent of "thumbs down."
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