30 years ago today - Aug 25, 1987

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences gives the Emmy for a public service spot "produced for the Church's Missionary Department by Bonneville Media Communications." The LDS church is the first religious organization to receive a national Emmy (again in 1988, 1993).

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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