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Dr. John Leverence on the issues arising from the same individual winning an Emmy in the same category every year

Dr. John Leverence on the origin of and design of the Emmy statuette, designed by Louis McManus; on the actual weight (about six pounds) and heft of the statuette, made out of compound metal by R.S. Owens

Dr. John Leverence on bearing witness through his long tenure as the Administrator of the Emmy Awards to the sheer stupor experienced by those who win an Emmy award and some of his memories of various people getting injured by the physical award statuette, and on sound editor Russ Tinsley, whose son Rusty had a prosthetic leg, winning the award and waiting for his son to put the leg back on before he would go onstage to receive the award

Dr. John Leverence on Dean Valentine's idea to create the Archive of American Television and the oral history program (now, The Interviews) at the Television Academy, on the vital importance of archiving history, the value of indexing oral histories, and the academic importance of the oral history archive, and on what he feels would have been a significant failure on the part of the Television Academy had they not taken the steps (in 1996) to create such an archive, and the lasting impact it will have on its contributions to the culture of television

Dr. John Leverence on how the Television Academy has addressed inclusivity and avoid the kind of criticism that the #OscarsSoWhite reaction to the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar awards has experienced in recent years

Dr. John Leverence on how the Television Academy has addressed inclusivity and avoided the kind of criticism that the #OscarsSoWhite reaction to the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar awards has experienced in recent years