Television Academy Calendar

• June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026
  Eligibility period for Emmy entries
  
  All dates below are subject to change.

• February 19
  Open for submissions

• April 7
  Deadline to apply for membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 78th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. Application(s) must be completed and paid for by this date.

  Deadline for current voting members to apply for hyphenate voting status and for Associate members to apply to switch to Active voting membership.

• May 6
  Deadline for lapsed members to apply to reinstate their membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 78th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. Application(s) must be completed and paid for by this date.

• May 7
  Entry deadline for programs that identify as Primetime programming by virtue of genre and were originally presented June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026.

  Upload deadline for all entry materials.

• June 11
  Nominations-round voting begins

• June 22 10:00 PM
  Nominations-round voting ends

• June 26 - July 7
  Voting for peer group-specific top ten round panels (if applicable)  

• July 8
  Nominations announced

• July 15
  Nominations announced for peer-group specific top 10 round panels

• July 22
  Deadline for errors and omissions to the nominations

• Week of August 10
  Final-round videos available for viewing

• August 17
  Final-round voting begins

• August 26 10:00 PM
  Final-round voting ends

• Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6
  2026 Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Governors Gala

• Monday, September 14
  78th Emmy Awards CBS Telecast and Governors Gala

• TBD
  2026 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards

updated 12.12.25

• January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
  Eligibility period
  Rules and Procedures

• November 10, 2025 - November 21, 2025
  Eligibility Period, Station Awards for Regularly Scheduled Daily Morning, Daytime & Evening Newscast

• January 21, 2026, 9:00 AM PT
  Online Entry System Opens for Submissions

• January 30, 5:00 PM PT Deadline to apply for Active Membership for Complimentary and Discounted Entry Fees

• February 9, 5:00 PM PT
  Online Entry and Videos Upload Deadline

• February 19, 5:00 PM PT
  Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards Committee Meeting
  Verification of Submissions

• February 27, 5:00 PM PT
  Deadline for All Errors or Omissions in the categorization and listing of Submissions

• March 3, 5:00 PM
  Deadline for Final Approval/Sign-Off from Stations in the categorization and listing of submissions

• March 19, 5:00 PM
  Deadline for submission of Governors Award Candidates

• April 8
  Voting Starts

• April 27
  Voting Ends

• June 2
  Nominations Announced

• June 8, 5:00 PM PT
  Deadline for correcting Errors and Omissions in the listing of nominations

• June 10 TBD
  Governors Award Announced

• July 25
  78th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards Presentation

*Dates subject to change

• January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
  Eligibility period

• December 16, 2025
  Entry site and entry video upload window opens

• January 13, 2026
  Entry deadline

• TBD
  Voting opens

• TBD
  Voting closes

• TBD
  Honoree Announcement

• TBD
  Television Academy Honors Presentation

• August 16
  27th Television Academy Hall of Fame Presentation at Televerse

78th Emmy Awards Season Eligibility

• April 7, 2026
  Deadline to apply for membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 78th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. Application(s) must be completed and paid for by this date.

  Deadline for current voting members to apply for hyphenate voting status and for Associate members to apply to switch to Active voting membership.

• May 6, 2026
  Deadline for lapsed members to apply to reinstate their membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 78th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. Application(s) must be completed and paid for by this date.

• August 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025
  Eligibility Period

• September 23, 2025
  Online Entry System opens for submissions

• October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM PT
  Online Entry submissions deadline

• October 28, 2025 - November 11, 2025
  Voting

• November 19, 2025
  Nominations announced

• November 25, 2025
  Deadline for errors & omissions

• April 2026
  45th College Television Awards Ceremony

January 2025

• Sunday, January 5
  82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

• Wednesday, January 8
  Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) nominations announced

• Monday, January 13
  Producers Guild of America (PGA) nominations announced

• Friday, January 17
  Oscar nominations announced

February

• Sunday, February 2
  67th Grammy Awards

• Saturday, February 8
  Directors Guild of America Awards; Producers Guild of America Awards

• Sunday, February 16
  BAFTA Film Awards

• Saturday, February 22
  Film Independent Spirit Awards; Cinema Audio Society Awards; NAACP Image Awards

• Sunday, February 23
  31st Screen Actors Guild Awards

March

• Sunday, March 2
  97th Oscars

• Saturday, March 15
  3rd Annual Children's & Family Emmys

July

• Tuesday, July 15
  Emmy nominations announced

September

• September 6 & 7
  Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Governors Gala

• September 14
  77th Emmys telecast on CBS and Governors Gala

October

• October 14
  Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards

emmy Magazine publication calendar and production schedule

Issue No. 1
AD CLOSING: January 16
MATERIALS DUE: January 21
ON-SALE: February 13

Issue No. 2
AD CLOSING: February 13
MATERIALS DUE: February 18
ON-SALE: March 14

Issue No. 3
AD CLOSING: March 4
MATERIALS DUE: March 6
ON-SALE: April 1

Issue No. 4
AD CLOSING: March 18
MATERIALS DUE: March 20
ON-SALE: April 14

Issue No. 5
AD CLOSING: April 1
MATERIALS DUE: April 3
ON-SALE: May 1

Issue No. 6
AD CLOSING: April 15
MATERIALS DUE: April 17
ON-SALE: May 13

Issue No. 7
AD CLOSING: April 29
MATERIALS DUE: May 1
ON-SALE: June 2

Issue No. 8
AD CLOSING: May 14
MATERIALS DUE: May 16
ON-SALE: June 12

Issue No. 9 (Issues 9 and 10 have the same production dates)
AD CLOSING: July 21
MATERIALS DUE: July 23
ON-SALE: August 16

Issue No. 10
AD CLOSING: July 21
MATERIALS DUE: July 23
ON SALE: August 18

Issue No. 11
AD CLOSING: August 15
MATERIALS DUE: August 19
ON SALE: September 13

Issue No. 12
AD CLOSING: September 19
MATERIALS DUE: September 23
ON SALE: October 17

Issue No. 13
AD CLOSING: November 7
MATERIALS DUE: November 11
ON-SALE: December 8

77th PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM
AD CLOSING: August 19
MATERIALS DUE: August 21
CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS: TBD
PRIMETIME EMMY TELECAST: TBD

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all dates are subject to change

• Wednesday, January 22, 2025
  Virtual FYC Event Date Lottery 

• Thursday, February 20 
  FYC Order site opens 
  First day to submit entries into the Emmy Competition 

• Monday, March 3
  FYC Events begin 

• Early March
  Television Academy Viewing Platform opens 
  Deadline to submit an FYC Viewing Platform order  for guaranteed member email notification. Note: Orders placed after June 3 will not include an email notification.
  Deadline to submit an FYC Viewing Platform order for individual achievement categories, no member email notice.  

• Wednesday, June 11
  Last day of FYC Events 

• Thursday, June 12
  Nominations-Round voting opens

• Monday, June 23
  Nominations-Round voting closes 

• Tuesday, July 15
  Nominations Announcement 

• Monday, August 18
  Final-Round voting opens 

• Wednesday, August 27
  Final-Round voting closes 

All-Academy and Peer Group events are listed on the Events page.

Past events are listed here.

FYC Events from March - June are listed on the FYC Calendar.