NBC Sports Coverage of Olympics, NFL, Lead to Winning Night at Emmys
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NBC Sports dominated the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards as its work on the London Olympics and NFL coverage (including Super Bowl XLVI) led the network to an 11-win evening. HBO also had a strong night, bringing home six awards while Turner Sports and ESPN each snagged four awards. The tally for each network was: NBC: 10; HBO: 6; ESPN: 5; Turner: 4; NFL Films: 3; NFL Network: 3; MLB Network: 3; Fox: 2; CBS: 2; and Showtime and Red Bull Media each with 1.
Here is the complete list of winners:
George Wensel Technical Achievement award: NBC Olympics for the XXX Olympiad multi-screen experience
Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound: NASCAR on Fox
Outstanding Production Design/Art Direction: NCAA March Madness, “Brackets Everywhere” from TBS
Outstanding Studio Show, Weekly: “Inside the NFL,” Showtime, CBS, and NFL Films
Outstanding Long Feature: HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” Tragic Hero
Outstanding Editing: HBO’s “24.7 Pacquiao-Marquez 4”
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement: “Episodic: A Football Life,” won by NFL Network and NFL Films
Outstanding Sports Personality-Sports Reporter: Pierre McGuire, NBC Sports Network and Tom Verducci, MLB Network
Outstanding Graphic Design: MLB Network for its Division Series “The Scrapbook”
Outstanding Sports Documentary: “Namath” on HBO
Outstanding Technical Team, Studio: Games of the XXX Olympiad, NBC Sports
Outstanding New Approaches, Sports Programing Short Format: ESPN for “Sport Science”
Outstanding Playoff Coverage: Another tie as Fox Sports won for its National League Championship Series coverage (Cardinals vs. Giants) and the NBA Playoffs on TNT
Outstanding Camera Work: ESPN’s “Outside the Lines: Breaking the Silence”
Outstanding Edited Sports Special: CBS Sports for “One Heartbeat”
Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics: HBO Films for “Namath”
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement-Institutional: ESPN for “It’s Not Crazy It’s Sports” and TBS for “NCAA March Madness: Brackets Everywhere”
Outstanding Sports Personality-Play by Play: Al Michaels, NBC
Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage: Red Bull Stratos, “Space Jump”
Outstanding Open/Tease: NBA on TNT for its All-Star Game Tease
Outstanding Post Produced Audio/Sound: HBO Films for “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Miami Dolphins”
Outstanding Sports Personality-Sports Event Analyst: Cris Collinsworth, NBC
The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award: The Games of the XXX Olympiad and NBC for “Measure & Motion”
Outstanding New Approaches in Sports Programming: Games of the XXX Olympiad, NBCOlympics.com
Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology: HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”
Outstanding Sports Personality-Studio Analyst: Charles Barkley, TNT/NBA TV
Outstanding Sports Journalism: ESPN’s “E60: Beitar Jerusalem”
Outstanding Technical Team Remote: ESPN 3D for the Winter X Games 2012
Outstanding Short Feature: The NFL Network for “NFL Game Day Morning: Immaculate Remembrance”
Outstanding Live Sports Series: “NBC Sunday Night Football”
Outstanding New Approaches, Studio Show-Daily: “MLB Tonight,” MLB Network
Outstanding Live Event Turnaround: NBC Sports for Games of the XXX Olympiad
Outstanding Live Sports Special: NBC Sports for Super Bowl XLVI
Outstanding Sports Personality-Studio Host: Bob Costas, NBC Sports
