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Washington native wins Emmy
By CLAUD HODGES;Senior Reporter
Washington native Morgan Potts, a producer and editor with UNC-TV, won an Emmy award Jan. 26 for his work with Our State, a widely-known production of the television organization.
“It’s a great feeling just to be nominated and mentioned in the same category as other high end productions,” he said.
For the past two seasons of Our State, Potts has produced and edited some of the segments featured in the series.
It has paid off with this honor of receiving an Emmy for Potts’ work.
“I’m just thrilled,” said his mother, Robin Potts of Washington. “He’s having the time of his life.”
The Nashville Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 22nd Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Jan. 26.
“UNC-TV’s Our State and its production staff, Jim Bramlett, producer; Michael Burke, director of photography; Daniel Cook, editor; Brian Faulkner, writer/narrator; Morgan Potts, producer/editor; and Lisa Waldo, associate producer, earned the award for best Magazine Series,” announced the organization at the awards ceremony.
“It’s a team effort,” Potts said. “I am grateful and appreciative that Jim Bramlett has put his trust in me to give me the opportunities he has assigned me.”
“It’s always nice to have one’s work recognized and appreciated,” Bramlett said. “While nominated in previous years, it’s very exciting to win this year. I can’t imagine a finer team of folks to work with: each person contributes unique talents to make the Our State television series something of which we are all proud.”
Inspired by the stories and images in Our State magazine, UNC-TV’s Our State takes viewers throughout North Carolina for an in-depth look at the places and personalities that make the state what it is.
“I have learned so much by being involved with Our State,” Potts said. “Seeing hours and hours of footage and interviews and working with different producers and directors have helped me form my own style.
“I like getting out in the state, meeting these colorful people and showing them to the rest of the state.”
Potts’ first Emmy came in 2005 when he was associate producer and editor for North Carolina’s Dependence on Tobacco.
“It was a documentary about the state’s cultural and economic ties to tobacco and the awful health effects that have followed,” he said.
Potts has been with UNC-TV for more than 10 years and has spent most of that time in an edit room, having edited more than 40 documentaries.
“That is a lot of time spent in a small room with oneself,” he said. “I have been so involved in some of these documentaries I have gone days without seeing daylight.”
Potts studied at Western Carolina and Barton College, where he graduated with a degree in communications.
Potts worked at his family’s radio stations, WDLX and WRRF, both in Washington, as a teenager on weekends and during the summers.
“Really, you know, I got my best experience and I learned the most from playing around in those two radio stations,” he said. “Isn’t that funny?”
“It’s a great feeling just to be nominated and mentioned in the same category as other high end productions,” he said.
For the past two seasons of Our State, Potts has produced and edited some of the segments featured in the series.
It has paid off with this honor of receiving an Emmy for Potts’ work.
“I’m just thrilled,” said his mother, Robin Potts of Washington. “He’s having the time of his life.”
The Nashville Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 22nd Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Jan. 26.
“UNC-TV’s Our State and its production staff, Jim Bramlett, producer; Michael Burke, director of photography; Daniel Cook, editor; Brian Faulkner, writer/narrator; Morgan Potts, producer/editor; and Lisa Waldo, associate producer, earned the award for best Magazine Series,” announced the organization at the awards ceremony.
“It’s a team effort,” Potts said. “I am grateful and appreciative that Jim Bramlett has put his trust in me to give me the opportunities he has assigned me.”
“It’s always nice to have one’s work recognized and appreciated,” Bramlett said. “While nominated in previous years, it’s very exciting to win this year. I can’t imagine a finer team of folks to work with: each person contributes unique talents to make the Our State television series something of which we are all proud.”
Inspired by the stories and images in Our State magazine, UNC-TV’s Our State takes viewers throughout North Carolina for an in-depth look at the places and personalities that make the state what it is.
“I have learned so much by being involved with Our State,” Potts said. “Seeing hours and hours of footage and interviews and working with different producers and directors have helped me form my own style.
“I like getting out in the state, meeting these colorful people and showing them to the rest of the state.”
Potts’ first Emmy came in 2005 when he was associate producer and editor for North Carolina’s Dependence on Tobacco.
“It was a documentary about the state’s cultural and economic ties to tobacco and the awful health effects that have followed,” he said.
Potts has been with UNC-TV for more than 10 years and has spent most of that time in an edit room, having edited more than 40 documentaries.
“That is a lot of time spent in a small room with oneself,” he said. “I have been so involved in some of these documentaries I have gone days without seeing daylight.”
Potts studied at Western Carolina and Barton College, where he graduated with a degree in communications.
Potts worked at his family’s radio stations, WDLX and WRRF, both in Washington, as a teenager on weekends and during the summers.
“Really, you know, I got my best experience and I learned the most from playing around in those two radio stations,” he said. “Isn’t that funny?”
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