This week,  members of the board for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences made two major announcements. On Monday, Variety reported that the Academy had decided to keep the Emmy for “Main Title Theme Music.” Earlier this year, the board had debated changing the award to one for “Original Documentary Scores.” However, that decision was nixed by the board’s vote of 85-36 in favor of keeping the award.

Today NBC reported that Joel McHale (”Community”) and Sofia Vergara (”Modern Family”) would be the nomination announcers. The nominations will be announced live on July 8 at 5:30 a.m.

As Breaking Tweets Entertainment reported recently, the 2010 Emmy’s will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon and will air live from coast-to-coast.

McHale and Vergara seemed to be popular choices with tweeps:

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   erinabloom RT @alisonbrie: Pretty cool @joelmchale!! RT @DeadlineTV: Joel McHale & Sofia Vergara To Announce Primetime Emmy Nominations http://bit. …
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   readinggirl1984 $5 says McHale and Varga will get noms! RT @nbccomunity @joelmchale will be announcing the 62nd Primetime Emmy Noms! http://ow.ly/1KdBt
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   stayingin Sexy times at the Emmy noms. RT @DeadlineTV: Joel McHale & Sofia Vergara To Announce Primetime Emmy Nominations http://bit.ly/96qmhH
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   tco3 Joel McHale & Sofia Vergara announcing the 62nd primetime Emmy nominations? JUST WOW. can’t wait.

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NBC has announced that late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon will host the “62nd Primetime Emmy Awards,” which will air live on NBC on August 29.

This is the first time the former SNL funnyman will host the Emmys. Fallon is a two-time host of the MTV Movie Awards and has also hosted the MTV Video Music Awards. He succeeds former “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien, who hosted the awards show the last two times it was aired on NBC, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Fallon also edged out Justin Timberlake for this year’s hosting honors.

Fallon joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 1998 and quickly became one of the show’s stars after hosting the “Weekend Update” segment with Tina Fey. He currently hosts “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on NBC.

The Twitterverse has some mixed emotions about Fallon’s brand of comedy:

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   IllMakeYouLaugh RT SNLUpdate: Great news! Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmys this year. That’s going to be awesome.
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   vwesr Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmy this year? guess the emmys will be dry and boring this year, oh wait….
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   itsabbeyk Jimmy Fallon’s hosting the Emmys this year. IDK how I feel about that one.
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   mbcurtis Seriously?! Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmys?! Yikes, they must have been desperate.
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   KimmyCakesx33 Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmys this year. whaaaa? umm HELLO ! Neil Patrick Harris was put on this earth to do THIS !
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   ShowPatrol All you NPH fans: I’ll miss him hosting Emmys, too, but I wish Jimmy Fallon luck. NPH wasn’t in running, I hear. http://bit.ly/bA5MR3
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   ChrisM00re happy that jimmy fallon is hosting the emmys.

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On August 29th, 2010, it won’t matter if you live on the East Coast, the West Coast, or anywhere in between, because according to Broadcasting & Cable, NBC will be airing the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards live from coast-to-coast.

The awards show’s first telecast was broadcast live in 1955 throughout the country. This year, however, will be the first time since 1976, when the Emmys aired on ABC, that the awards show will be broadcasted live coast-to-coast. A live awards show throughout all time zones will prevent those in earlier time zones from spoiling the winning results for those in later ones.

Tweeps seem excited that the date for the Emmys has been announced and also at the news that the awards show will be live for everyone throughout the country:

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   tvinaflash Nice! “NBC Confirms Emmys Will Air Live Coast-to-Coast” @ Broadcasting & Cable http://ow.ly/1eLaT
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   kats2009 Yay! RT @LTLV613: NBC Confirms Emmys Will Air Live Coast-to-Coast http://bit.ly/ajGDoP
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   cabri HOORAY! No more spoiling! @TVMoJoe It’s official: Emmys will air live, coast to coast. http://tinyurl.com/yhklw8q
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   brandiimarie Finally!!!! RT @TVMoJoe: It’s official: Emmys will air live, coast to coast. http://tinyurl.com/yhklw8q
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   fymaxwell Now no one will have to miss out on @crsbecker ’s live tveets! RT @TVMoJoe: Emmys will air live, coast to coast. http://tinyurl.com/yhklw8q
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   janeway529 Yes! No more tape delay! RT: @TVMoJoe: It’s official: Emmys will air live, coast to coast. http://tinyurl.com/yhklw8q
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   robsforman Finally RT @TVMoJoe: It’s official: Emmys will air live, coast to coast. http://tinyurl.com/yhklw8q

And of course, Breaking Tweets Entertainment will be bringing you complete Twitter-style Emmys coverage with our live-blog when the show airs in August. Meanwhile, don’t forget to check out our Oscars live-blog this Sunday!

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