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1989 World Series Sports Emmy. ABC's camera operator John R. Savoy was awarded this trophy in the category of Technical Team Remote for his work on the dramatic 1989 World Series broadcast. The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants were a half hour from game time in the third game of the series at Candlestick Park when the Loma Prieta earthquake shook San Francisco for 15 seconds at a forceful 6.9 on the Richter scale. The coverage made national TV history as the first time an earthquake began during a live television broadcast. The World Series was postponed for ten days while the city got its bearings in the wake of $6 billion in damage. 63 people were killed, a number experts say would have been much higher were it not for the World Series, since its draw lightened traffic on the double-decker bridges that collapsed in the disaster. The Athletics ended up sweeping the Giants in only 4 games. The first Sports Emmy Award was issued in 1950 as part of a regular Emmy ceremony, though the field of sports coverage earned a ceremony all its own in 1979. The iconic winged woman holding an atom stands on the convex, grid-lined surface of a round metal base. The base's flat perimeter reads ''The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences''. Front section is engraved with 5 lines naming the award, its category and recipient: ''1989 Sports Emmy Award / Technical Team Remote / 1989 World Series / ABC / John R. Savoy: Camera Operator''. Measures 15.25'' in total height with a 7.5'' diameter base. Weighs 4 lbs., 4 oz. Restoration to finish with light tarnish to base, else near fine.
Sports Emmy for the 1989 World Series in San Francisco -- Coincided With The Loma Prieta Earthquake, the First Time a Major U.S. Earthquake Occurred During a Live Broadcast
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