2026 New York Emmy® Nominations
CUNY TV Receives seventeen Nominations for 2026 New York Emmy® Awards
CUNY TV is honored to receive seventeen nominations for the 2026 New York Emmy® Awards in categories featuring the station’s signature television series Arts in the City, Asian American Life, Black America, CUNY Laureates, LATiNAS, Shades of U.S., Let It Rip, Nueva York, and Urban U, as well as a film and craft directing work featured as part of CUNY TV Presents.
Announcement of the 69th Annual New York Emmy Award Nominations was hosted by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – New York (NY NATAS) Awards Chair and PIX 11 Senior Correspondent Marvin Scott, from the PIX 11 Studio in New York on the afternoon of July 2nd, 2026.
The NY Emmy® Award honorees will be announced on October 10th, 2026 at a live in-person gala at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Below is a complete list of CUNY TV’s nominated shows and segments.
Category: Education/Schools – Long Form Content
CUNY Laureates: Yao, Yurick, and Davis
https://tv.cuny.edu/show/cunylaureates/PR2014024
Category: Education/Schools – Long Form Content
Urban U: Collisions of History and Hope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7OBzmm9iQQ
Category: Business/Consumer – Short or Long Form Content
Asian American Life: Chinatown’s Next Generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYuQE7Mdqk
Category: Lifestyle News & Content Spanish
Albania Rosario: Building the Latino Runway (Nueva York segment)
https://youtu.be/4jk6OEnAk20?si=fX6a3J90aXetF7-2&t=592
Category: Nostalgia – Short Form Content
CUNY Laureats: Marvin Hamlisch – The Entertainer
https://youtu.be/83uhdksps1A?si=tLO-id-5CKRTdDDN&t=54
Category: Nostalgia – Short Form Content
CUNY Laureates: Out Of The Ashes – Frank McCourt
https://youtu.be/ZCnh1ZCMDwc?si=67uGSmiglpA5v6G2&t=1156
Category: Public Affairs Program – Series
LATiNAS (Series Compilation)
https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/latinas/
Category: Diversity/Equity/Inclusion – Short Form Content
Shades of U.S. – Bridging the Birth Gap for Women of Color
https://youtu.be/Y9B8PuyRHSQ?si=SjzkAHKe4zWBpPvi&t=115
Category: Diversity/Equity/Inclusion – Short Form Content
Reclaiming the Rink: Libert Girls Skating Crew (LATiNAS segment)
https://youtu.be/N0TL2ltLHto?si=_9SQLCJK8IPT5IPT&t=58
Category: News Special / Documentary – Spanish
Nueva York: Weaving Stories, Building Community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS72DZ_NN-4
Category: Arts/Entertainment – Short Form Content
Photographer Peter Guttman (Arts in the City segment)
https://youtu.be/Sph9X9PpRKw?si=hVjEJwmhiN15034L&t=318
Category: Politics/Government – Long Form Content
Let It Rip: Mass Deportations
https://tv.cuny.edu/show/letitrip/PR2013302
Category: Historical/Cultural – Short Form Content
CUNY Laureates: Upton Sinclair – Muckraker
https://youtu.be/83uhdksps1A?si=1qBntIxqUZ5k3hh3&t=1144
Category: Historical/Cultural – Long Form Content
Asian American Life: Roots and Routes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm8iTuTMGas
Category: Interview/Discussion – Long Form Content
Black America: Defending Your Name
https://youtu.be/247dLWqCkPQ?si=uzOSpd3r_KxScE5t
Category: Director – Post-Produced – Short Form Content
Fatou Seck
The Free Black Women’s Library – CUNY TV
(Film featured on CUNY TV Presents)
Category: Entertainment – Short Form Content
Physical Therapy – CUNY TV
(Film featured on CUNY TV Presents)
CUNY TV is broadcast in the New York metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Spectrum and Cablevision/Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). The station reaches 7.3 million households in the metro area, and its original programming is archived for a global audience at tv.cuny.edu Executive Director is Chiqui Cartagena.