HBO Sports, ESPN properties dominate the 31st annual Sports Emmy Awards
HBO/HBO Sports and ESPN/ESPN2/ESPN.com dominated the 31st annual Sports Emmy Awards Monday night (April 26) in New York.
NEW YORK- HBO Sports dominated the 31st annual Sports Emmy Awards, winning in nine categories at the ceremonies in New York City Monday night. They were presented for the 31st year by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, while CBS, NBC and MLB Network each won four. CBS/Showtime received two, CBS Mobile, Fox, Fox Sports Net, NBCOlympics.com, NFL Network and Speed one apiece.
ESPN won a total of seven Sports Emmy Awards, last night in New York. ESPN’s commitment to innovation was recognized through honors for three of the network’s more creative series (Pardon the Interruption, E:60 and SportsNation), ESPN.com content, and the ground-breaking College GameDay weekly football road show. College GameDay won the Studio Show Weekly Sports Emmy for the second time in three years, and the show’s Kirk Herbstreit was named the best Studio Show Analyst with the first Sports Emmy in his 15-year ESPN career.
One of the E:60 awards came in the Journalism category for “Wanted: Fugitive,” a Jeremy Schaap report about a former Binghamton University basketball player who fled to Serbia to avoid criminal charges in the U.S.
Among the winners were Kirk Herbstreit (ESPN) as top studio analyst, Bob Costas (NBC/MLB) as top studio host, Cris Collinsworth (top event analyst) and Jim Nantz (top event play-by-play).
Here are all the winners:
OUTSTANDING LIVE SPORTS SPECIAL: Super Bowl XLIII (NBC)
OUTSTANDING LIVE SPORTS SERIES: NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC)
OUTSTANDING LIVE EVENT TURNAROUND: Inside the Headsets (Speed)
OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SPECIAL: 24/7 Mayweather-Marquez (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS DOCUMENTARY: Assault in the Ring (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SERIES/ANTHOLOGY: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING STUDIO SHOW-WEEKLY: College GameDay (ESPN)
OUTSTANDING STUDIO SHOW DAILY: Pardon the Interruption (ESPN)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS JOURNALISM: E: 60 (ESPN2)
OUTSTANDING SHORT FEATURE: Inside the NFL (CBS/Showtime)
OUTSTANDING LONG FEATURE: E: 60 (ESPN2)
OUTSTANDING OPEN / TEASE: College Football on CBS (CBS)
OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES SPORTS EVENT COVERAGE: CBS Mobile NCAA March Madness On Demand (CBS Mobile)
OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES SPORTS PROGRAMMING: Super Bowl MVPs (ESPN.com)
OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES SPORTS PROGRAMMING–SHORT FORMAT: Countdown to Vancouver (NBCOlympics.com)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY–STUDIO HOST: Bob Costas (NBC / MLB Network)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY–PLAY-BY-PLAY: Jim Nantz (CBS)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY–STUDIO ANALYST: Kirk Herbstreit (ESPN)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PERSONALITY–SPORTS EVENT ANALYST: Cris Collinsworth (NBC)
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL TEAM REMOTE: Red Bull Air Race World Series (Fox Sports Net)
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL TEAM STUDIO: MLB Tonight (MLB Network)
OUTSTANDING CAMERA WORK: 24/7 Pacquiao-Cotto (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING EDITING: 24/7 Mayweather-Marquez (HBO Sports)
THE DICK SCHAAP WRITING AWARD: 24/7 Pacquiao-Hatton (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION/DIRECTION/LYRICS: Ted Williams (HBO Sports)
OUTSTANDING LIVE EVENT AUDIO/SOUND: NASCAR on Fox (Fox)
OUTSTANDING POST PRODUCED AUDIO/SOUND: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals (HBO Sports) and Inside the NFL (CBS / Showtime)
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN: MLB Tonight (MLB Network)
and SportsNation (ESPN2)
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION: MLB Tonight (MLB Network)
THE GEORGE WENSEL TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: U.S. Open Tennis (CBS)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT – INSTITUTIONAL: Football Season Never Ends (NFL Network)
OUTSTANDING SPORTS PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT-EPISODIC: 24/7 Jimmie Johnson Race to Daytona (HBO)