OPB has been nominated for 17 Northwest Regional Emmy Awards from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The competition recognizes the craft achievements in television and online of those working in the media industry in cultural, educational, technological, entertainment, news and informational programming.
In addition to being nominated for “Overall Station Excellence,” OPB producers, producers, videographers, writers, editors and reporters were recongized for their work in news, the arts, and science and environment.
OPB’s 2020 Emmy nominations include:
Overall Excellence
- OPB – Steve Bass, President/CEO
Environmental - Program - Feature/Segment
- "Oregon Field Guide": Tide Pooling With Jane Lubchenco (Jule Gilfillan, producer, Michael Bendixen, editor, Nicholas Fisher, camera/editor)
- "Oregon Field Guide": Oregon's Rockfish Rebound (Cassandra Profita, producer, Michael Bendixen, camera/editor, Stephani Gordon, camera)
- "Oregon Field Guide": Cave Critters (Aaron Scott, reporter/producer, Brandon Swanson, camera/editor)
Environmental - Program/Special
- "Oregon Field Guide": Episode 3007 (Ed Jahn, executive producer, Todd Sonflieth, camera/editor, Stephani Gordon, camera/editor, Ian McCluskey, producer, Erin Ross, researcher/writer, Brandon Swanson, camera/editor, Jule Gilfillan, producer, Aaron Scott, producer, Michael Bendixen, camera/editor, Danika Sandoz, producer/editor)
Historic/Cultural - Program Special
- "Oregon Experience": Fern Hobbs and the Snake River Showdown (Nadine Jelsing, producer/writer, Lisa Suinn Kallem, editor, LaVerne Heiman-Layton, graphics)
- "Oregon Experience": Oregon's Black Pioneers (Kami Horton, producer/writer, Bruce Barrow, editor, William Ward, audio, Todd Sonflieth, camera)
Informational/Instructional - Program/Special
- "Oregon Experience": Oregon's Moon Country (Kami Horton, writer/producer, Bruce Barrow, editor)
Public/Current/Community Affairs - Program Feature/Segment
- "Oregon Field Guide": Searching For Microplastics: Science Style (Cassandra Profita, producer, Todd Sonflieth, camera/editor, Jes Burns, producer)
- OPB Digital: A Distant Refuge: Rohingya Genocide Survivors In Portland (Arya Surowidjojo, producer, MacGregor Campbell, graphics animator, Stephani Gordon, camera, Jan Boyd, executive producer)
Human Interest - Program Feature/Segment
- "Oregon Experience": Minidoka Pilgrimage (Nadine Jelsing, co-producer, Danika Sandoz, co-producer/editor)
Documentary - Historical/Cultural
- "Oregon Experience": Oregon's Japanese Americans: Beyond the Wire (Nadine Jelsing, producer, Daniel Evans, editor, LaVerne Heiman-Layton, graphics)
Reporter - Programming
- Jes Burns & Cassandra Profita, OPB Science & Environment reporters
- Jule Gilfillan, producer, "Oregon Field Guide," "Oregon Art Beat"
Director
- Kami Horton, producer, "Oregon Experience"
Writer - Program
- Nadine Jelsing, executive producer, "Oregon Experience"
Photographer - Program
- Michael Bendixen, senior videographer & editor, "Oregon Field Guide"