New York – Japan’s NHK and Canada’s CBC Television won the top awards at the 2012 International Emmys for News & Current Affairs. NHK received the International Emmy for News for its Great East Japan Earthquake Emergency News, which covered the largest earthquake in the country’s history and the resulting devastating tsunami, in March last year. CBC Television’s Haiti’s Orphans: One Year After the Earthquake, meanwhile, won the Current Affairs category.

It was the first win for both organisations and countries in each category. On the other hand, this is the second Emmy win in a row for NHK, which won in the Current Affairs category last year.

The International Emmys were presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in conjunction with the US News Emmys in New York City.

Meanwhile, the nominees for the 15 other International Emmy Award categories will be announced in October 8 at MIPCOM in Cannes. Winners for Arts Programming; Best Performance by an Actress; Best Performance by an Actor; Comedy; Documentary; Drama Series; Non-Scripted Entertainment; Telenovela and TV Movie/Mini-Series will receive their awards at the 40th International Emmy Awards Gala on November 19 in New York City.

Winners for the six kids categories—Kids: Preschool; Kids: Animation; Kids: Factual; Kids: Non-Scripted Entertainment; Kids: Series; and Kids: TV Movie/Mini-Series will receive their awards at the 1st International Emmy Kids Awards on February 8, 2013, at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, also in New York City.