AB7 7 WINS LA AREA EMMY AWARD FOR COVERAGE OF 2022 LA PRIDE PARADE
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 22, 2023) : KABC/ABC7, LA Pride’s longtime broadcast and streaming partner, took home an Emmy Award for its coverage of the 2022 LA Pride Parade, making it the first Emmy Award won for live news coverage of a Pride event.
“We have had Parade Team 7 for quite a few years now,” said Assistant News Director, Dan Rasmussen, in his acceptance speech. “As someone who stands in the rainbow, it was very important to me, and very important to the people I work with, that we got it right.”
CSW congratulates everyone at ABC7 for this well-deserved recognition, and also, to its own Parade production team, led by Rose Parade veteran, Mariela Spillari.
About Christopher Street West (CSW)/LA Pride:
Christopher Street West Association (CSW), a 501(c)3 nonprofit, organized the world’s first permitted gay parade in the world on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City. Over 50 years later, CSW remains an active voice for the LGBTQ+ community of Greater Los Angeles. While best known for producing the iconic LA Pride Parade, and the festival,”LA Pride in the Park,” they also organize, sponsor or support community events throughout the year, and work with nonprofit, philanthropic, and community partners to further diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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