Award or prize judge denied? (4)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

[j] EMMY (prize, as a verb = to force something open using a lever) without the J (abbreviation for judge). I’ve always used the spelling “prise” and assumed that “prize” was the US version, but the dictionaries accept both as British English. An award presented for artistic and technical merit in the television industry. According to Wikipedia the name is derived from “immy”, short for “image orthicon tube” (a component of early television cameras), but changed to sound more like a woman’s name because the award statuette depicts a woman. I may or may not remember that next time someone asks.