Giant Emmy

North Hollywood, California, United States

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A bronze replica of the Emmy statuette, 18 feet high and weighing 1,750 pounds according to the Television Academy, stands on the Academy's campus in North Hollywood. It was erected in 1991, and a City of Los Angeles marker calls it the piece de resistance of the Hall of Fame.

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A giant Emmy, an 18-foot bronze copy of the television award, stands on the Television Academy's campus in North Hollywood.

The Academy says the replica weighs 1,750 pounds and rests on a poured concrete base in a landscaped mini-park. It required 11 months of preparation and some 45 craftsmen, and is cast in silicon bronze. It was erected in 1991, the year a City of Los Angeles marker says the Hall of Fame was officially dedicated and the Academy moved into its new North Hollywood headquarters. A 2014 City of Los Angeles marker describes the giant Emmy as standing in the centre of a fountain and says the Hall of Fame itself was instituted in 1984.

The statuette it copies, the marker says, is a winged woman holding an atom aloft, the last of 48 proposed designs, modelled on the wife of its designer, television engineer Louis McManus.

Around the giant Emmy, the Hall of Fame Garden holds statues, busts and plaques of more than 100 honorees. The Academy lists life-sized figures of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Johnny Carson and Jack Benny, and forty plaques on the east wall of the headquarters building. The campus was reworked in the 2010s, with the Academy describing a new landscaped plaza and sculpture garden at its 2016 unveiling, and four new busts were revealed in November 2022.

The Academy invites visitors to the campus. A 2018 We Like L.A. article described the plaza as free, accessible 24 hours a day and sometimes closed for special events, and quoted an Academy vice president saying the main office building has no museum or exhibition space, so the plaza and sculpture garden are where the art can be seen.

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An 18-foot Emmy replica stands among statues, busts and plaques of more than 100 Hall of Fame honorees on the Television Academy campus. The Academy invites visitors to the campus; in 2018 We Like L.A. described the plaza as free, accessible 24 hours a day and sometimes closed for special events.

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On the Television Academy campus on Lankershim Boulevard near Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood. The outdoor garden is the public space; the office building has no museum, according to a 2018 We Like L.A. article quoting the Academy.

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