ESPN Networks, HBO’s 24/7 Top Sports Emmy Nominations
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ESPN’s army of media outlets and HBO’s 24/7 reality series led the way when the 25th-annual Sports Emmy Awards nominations were revealed on Wednesday. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) bestowed ESPN’s networks with a total of 46 nods — including a network-best 30 for “The Mother Ship” — and HBO’s 24-7 with seven nominations, more than any other sports series.
In addition to determining the winners among 180 nominees in 39 categories, NATAS will honor Ted Turner with its Lifetime Achievement Award during the Sports Emmys ceremony on May 6 in New York City.
Breaking Down the Field
Close behind ESPN was NBC Sports Group, whose networks earned a combined 33 nods, followed by Fox Sports Media Group with 22, CBS with 18, HBO Sports with 15, NFL Media and Turner Sports with 14 each, and MLB Network with 13. DIRECTV and Univision also notched three nominations, while Pac-12 and SI.com earned two apiece.
HBO’s 24-7 once again turned in a solid showing, leading the individual-program field with seven, followed by ESPN’s E:60 newsmagazine with six. NASCAR on FOX, TNT’s NBA coverage, and the 34th America’s Cup (co-produced by the America’s Cup Event Authority and NBCSN) made for a three-way third-place tie with five apiece. ESPN’s SportsCenter took four nominations, and ESPN’s 30-for-30 documentary series, CBS/Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports, ESPN Monday Night Football, HBO’s Hard Knocks, MLB Network’s MLB Tonight, NFL Films Presents, and ESPN’s Nine for IX documentary got in on the action with three nominations apiece.
Outstanding Live Event Coverage and Technical Awards
Fox Sports led with five nominations in the live-event–coverage categories (Outstanding Live Sports Special, Outstanding Live Sports Series, and Outstanding Playoff Coverage) with a nod apiece for its NASCAR Daytona 500, MLB World Series, MLB ALCS, NFL NFC Championship, and NFL NFC Wild Card Playoff coverage. ESPN/ABC garnered four nods (College Football, Monday Night Football, NBA Finals, and Wimbledon Championships), while NBC (Sunday Night Football and the America’s Cup) and Turner Sports (MLB Postseason on TBS and NBA Playoffs on TNT) were each awarded two nods. HBO and CBS Sports also secured nominations for their Boxing and SEC football coverage, respectively.
As for the technical awards — Outstanding Technical Remote, Outstanding Technical Studio Team, and the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award — NBC Sports Group came out on top with five nominations (two each for its America’s Cup and Premier League coverage and another for its Golf Channel coverage). Fox earned three tech-category nominations (two for its NASCAR coverage and another for its MLB coverage), while ESPN (Monday Night Football and College Gameday) and MLB Network (MLB Tonight and Division Series coverage) notched two apiece.
Network by Network
ESPN garnered nominations in 29 of the 39 categories — 46 in total — with the company’s journalism and storytelling sector leading the way (six nods for E:60, four for SportsCenter, and three for ESPN Films). ESPN Deportes gained four nominations. espnW.com earned its first three nominations for the Nine for IX series.
NBC Sports Group garnered 33 nods, including nine talent nominations (tops among any sports group for 2013), and set records for both of its cable networks with 14 nominations for NBCSN and four for Golf Channel (record-high for both cable networks). Deportes Telemundo dominated the new Spanish-language categories, earning six nominations.
CBS Sports’ 18 entries were headlined by its coverage of College Football, the NCAA Tournament, and, especially, Super Bowl XLVII, which was nominated for Outstanding Short Feature (Chuck Pagano: A Season of Family), Outstanding Open/Tease (We Will Rock You Remix), and Outstanding Studio Design/Art Direction (CBS/CBS Sports Network). The NFL Today earned a nomination for Outstanding Post-Produced Graphic Design, and ths studio show’s host James Brown also garnered a nod.
MLB Network’s 13 nominations mark the most ever for the network, giving it a total of 50 Sports Emmy Award nominations since its launch in 2009.
Hulu has been nominated for its first Emmy in the Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Programming category for its mascot docuseries Behind the Mask.
See below for the full list of awards broken out into categories. For the full list of NATAS nominations, CLICK HERE.
OUTSTANDING LIVE EVENT COVERAGE
Outstanding Live Sports Special | |
2013 NBA Finals | ABC/ESPN |
The Championships, Wimbledon | ABC/ESPN |
The 55th Annual Daytona 500 | FOX |
The 109th World Series Red Sox vs. Tigers | FOX |
The 34th America’s Cup | NBCSN |
Outstanding Live Sports Series | |
ESPN College Football | ABC/ESPN |
ESPN Monday Night Football | ESPN |
HBO Boxing | HBO |
SEC on CBS | CBS |
Sunday Night Football | NBC |
Outstanding Playoff Coverage | |
ALCS Red Sox vs. Tigers | FOX |
MLB Postseason on tbs | TBS |
NBA Playoffs on TNT | TNT |
NFC Championship Falcons vs. 49ers | FOX |
NFC Wild Card Seahawks vs. Redskins | FOX |
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL
Outstanding Technical Team Remote | |
ESPN Monday Night Football | ESPN |
Golf Channel on NBC | NBC/Golf Channel |
MLB on FOX | FOX |
NASCAR on FOX | FOX |
The 34th America’s Cup | NBCSN |
Outstanding Technical Team Studio | |
College Gameday | ESPN |
MLB Tonight | MLB Network |
Road to the Final Four | CBS/TNT/TBS/TruTV |
The Premier League | NBCSN |
George Wensel Technical Achievement Award | |
NASCAR on FOX and SPEED – Gyrocam | FOX/SPEED |
Pac‐12 Networks – Multicam MI/O | Pac-12 Network |
The 34th America’s Cup – AC LIVELINE ‐ “WINGWASH” | NBCSN |
The Division Series On MLB Network – A Field of Dreamers | MLB Network |
The Premier League – Goal Line Technology | NBCSN |
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY/EDITED EVENT COVERAGE
Outstanding Sports Documentary | |
First: The Official Film of the London Olympic Games | NBC |
LT: The Life and Times | Showtime/CBS Sports/NFL Films |
The Doctor | NBATV |
UFC Presents Ronda Rousey: Breaking Ground | FS1/A. Smith & Co. |
Outstanding Sports Documentary Series | |
24/7: Red Wings ‐ Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
30 for 30 | ESPN |
A Football Life | NFL Network/NFL Films |
Casualties of the Gridiron | CasualtiesoftheGridiron.com/Conde Nast Entertainment |
The Journey: Big Ten Basketball 2013 | Big Ten Network |
MLS Insider | NBCSN |
Nine for IX | ESPN |
Outstanding Edited Sports Event Coverage | |
2013 Ironman World Championship | NBC/Texas Crew Productions |
All Access: Mayweather vs. Canelo Epilogue | Showtime |
Keep Climbing: The 2013 Elite 11 | ESPNU/First Row Films |
NFL Turning Point | NBCSN/NFL Films |
Sound FX: Super Bowl XLVII | NFL Network/NFL Films |
OUTSTANDING STUDIO SHOW
Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly | |
College Gameday – Football | ESPN |
FOX NFL Sunday | FOX |
Inside the NBA on TNT | TNT |
Monday Night Countdown | ESPN |
NFL GameDay Morning | NFL Network |
Outstanding Studio Show – Daily | |
Inside The NBA on TNT: Playoffs | TNT |
MLB Tonight | MLB Network |
Olbermann | ESPN |
Pardon the Interruption | ESPN/Rydholm Projects |
SportsCenter | ESPN |
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION – AUDIO, CAMERA, EDITING, MUSIC
Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound | |
MLB on FOX | FOX |
NASCAR on ESPN | ABC/ESPN |
NASCAR on FOX | FOX |
The 34th America’s Cup | NBCSN |
Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound | |
24/7 Red Wings ‐ Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
ESPN Sport Science | ESPN/BASE Productions |
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals | HBO/NFL Films |
Sound FX: Super Bowl XLVII | NFL Network/NFL Films |
Outstanding Camera Work | |
24/7: Red Wings ‐ Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
E:60: Children of the Ring | ESPN |
FOX Sports Live: West, TX | FS1 |
NFL Films Presents | NFL Network/NFL Films |
Tour de France | NBCSN |
Outstanding Editing | |
2013 PGA Tour Teases | Golf Channel |
24/7: Pacquiao‐Rios | HBO |
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals | HBO |
Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti‐Ward | HBO |
NBA on TNT Teases | TNT |
Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics | |
Against The Tide | Showtime/Ross Greenburg Productions |
College Football on CBS – Army-Navy Game | CBS |
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals | HBO/NFL Films |
Nine for IX: The Diplomat | ESPN |
Road To The Super Bowl | NFL Network/NFL Films |
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN/ART DIRECTION
Outstanding Live Event Graphic Design | |
ESPN Monday Night Football | ESPN |
Intentional Talk | MLB Network |
NBA on TNT – NBA All‐Star Weekend | TNT |
NBA on TNT | TNT |
X Games | ESPN |
Outstanding Post-Produced Graphic Design | |
2013 Heisman Trophy Presentation | ESPN |
E: 60 | ESPN2 |
ESPN Sport Science | ESPN/BASE Productions |
MLB Tonight | MLB Network |
The NFL Today | CBS |
Outstanding Studio Design/Art Direction | |
MLB Postseason on tbs | TBS |
NBA Playoffs on TNT | TNT |
Super Bowl XLVII | CBS/CBS Sports Network |
Outstanding Production Design/Art Direction | |
NASCAR on FOX – Hangar Shoot | FOX |
NFL Draft | ESPN |
Sunday Night Football | NBC |
The Division Series On MLB Network – A Field of Dreamers | MLB Network |
OUTSTANDING JOURNALISM/NEWS/WRITING
Outstanding Sports News Anthology | |
60 Minutes Sports | Showtime/CBS News |
E: 60 | ESPN2 |
NFL Films Presents | NFL Network/NFL Films |
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | HBO |
Outstanding Sports Journalism | |
60 Minutes Sports: The Fall of Lance Armstrong | Showtime/CBS News |
E:60: Children of the Ring | ESPN2 |
In Play With Jimmy Roberts: Valentino Dixon | Golf Channel |
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel: Putin’s Olympics: Cronyism and Corruption in Russia | HBO |
Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award | |
24/7: Red Wings – Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
E:60: The Ballad of Bushwacker | ESPN2 |
ESPN Grand Slam Tennis: Wimbledon & US Open | ABC/ESPN |
Football Night in America: Redskins Name Commentary | NBC |
NFL Films Presents: Yours Truly, Dr. Z | NFL Network/NFL Films |
OUTSTANDING FEATURE/OPEN
Outstanding Short Feature | |
E:60: Shear Will | ESPN2 |
Ironman World Championship: Peace, Love, Grace | NBC/Texas Crew Productions |
SportsCenter: Richie Parker: Drive | ESPN2 |
Sunday NFL Countdown: O.J. Brigance: Heart of the Ravens | ESPN2 |
The Super Bowl Today: Chuck Pagano: A Season of Family | CBS |
Outstanding Long Feature | |
30 for 30 Shorts: The Irrelevant Giant | grantland.com/ESPN Films |
30 for 30 Shorts: Cutthroat | grantland.com/ESPN Films |
60 Minutes Sports: Great Falls | Showtime/CBS News |
SportsCenter: The Lady Jags: Losing to Win | ESPN |
SportsCenter: Carry On | ESPN |
Outstanding Open/Tease | |
2013 Open Championship: Fish on Tartan | ESPN |
24/7: Red Wings – Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
MLB Network Divisional Playoffs: A Field of Dreamers | MLB Network |
Super Bowl XLVII: We Will Rock You Remix | CBS |
OUTSTANDING NEW APPROACHES
Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Event Coverage | |
2013 NCAA March Madness Live | NCAA.com/Turner Sports |
The 34th America’s Cup Official App | America’s Cup Event Authority |
NFL Sunday Ticket Experience on DIRECTV Mobile/Web Applications | DirecTV |
The PGA TOUR Experience on DIRECTV | DirecTV/PGA Tour Entertainment |
Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Programming | |
Behind the Mask | Hulu/Occupant Entertainment |
FOX Sports Live – Social Highlight | FS1 |
Nine for IX – Coach | ESPNW.com/ESPN Films |
Sports Illustrated – A Boy Helps a Town Heal | SI.com |
Together We Make Football: The Contest | Togetherwemakefootball.com/NFL Films |
Underdogs | SI.com |
Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Programming Short Format | |
CollegeInsider.com All‐Access – Anatomy of a Game Winner ‐ The 2013 CIT Final | collegeinsider.com/312 Media |
JFK: The Untold NFL History of That Day in Dallas | NFL.com/NFL Digital Media |
NFL Films Drawn – Between Takes with Wynton Marsalis | NFL.com/NFL Films |
NFL UP! | NFL.com/NFL Digital Media |
Numbers Never Lie Whiteboard: LeBron James Can Surpass Michael Jordan | ESPN 2 |
OUTSTANDING ON-AIR PERSONALITY
Outstanding Sports Personality – Studio Host | |
James Brown | CBS/Showtime |
Bob Costas | NBC |
David Feherty | Golf Channel |
Greg Gumbel | CBS/Showtime |
Dan Patrick | NBC/NBCSN/DirecTV |
Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play | |
Marv Albert | TNT/TBS/TruTV/CBS |
Mike Breen | ABC/ESPN |
Joe Buck | FOX |
Bob Costas | MLB Network |
Mike Emrick | NBC/NBCSN |
Outstanding Sports Personality – Studio Analyst | |
Cris Collinsworth | Showtime |
Al Leiter | MLB Network |
Rick Neuheisel | Pac-12 Network |
Harold Reynolds | MLB Network/Fox |
Michael Strahan | Fox |
Tom Verducci | TBS/MLB Network |
Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Event Analyst | |
Cris Collinsworth | NBC |
Gary Danielson | CBS |
Kirk Herbstreit | ESPN |
Tim McCarver | FOX |
Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Reporter | |
Pierre McGuire | NBC/NBCSN |
Ken Rosenthal | FOX |
Lisa Salters | ESPN |
Michele Tafoya | NBC/NBCSN |
Tom Verducci | MLB Network |
OUTSTANDING PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement – Institutional | |
Formula 1 – Rockstar/Shaken and Stirred vs. Drivers/Austin | NBC/NBCSN |
HBO Boxing – Fall Boxing Image | HBO |
MLB Network Prime Time Line Up – Here’s To Us | MLB Network |
NBA Playoffs – will.i.am Playoff Promo | ESPN |
NFL Draft – Leon Sandcastle | NFL Network/Grey, NY |
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement – Episodic | |
24/7: Red Wings – Maple Leafs: Road to the Winter Classic | HBO |
A Football Life: Life Story | NFL Network/NFL Films |
NASCAR on FOX: NASCAR DOG FIGHT | Fox/Fox Soccer/Fuel |
NHL on NBCSN: Wednesday Night Rivalry | NBCSN |
OUTSTANDING SPANISH COVERAGE
Outstanding Live Sports Coverage in Spanish | |
Futbol Estelar – La Gran Final: Leon vs. America | Telemundo |
Futbol Estelar – Super Clasico: Guadalajara vs. America | Telemundo |
Liga MX Clausura 2013 season – Final – 2nd Leg America vs Cruz Azul | Univision |
Rumbo Al Mundial – Costa Rica vs. Mexico | Telemundo |
Outstanding Studio Show in Spanish | |
Futbol Picante | ESPN Deportes |
Lakers en Vivo | Time Warner Cable Deportes |
Nacion | ESPN Deportes |
SportsCenter | ESPN Deportes |
Titulares Telemundo | Telemundo |
Outstanding On-Air Sports Personality in Spanish | |
Lindsay Casinelli | Univision |
Andres Cantor | Telemundo |
Jose Ramon Fernandez | ESPN Deportes |
Ivan Kasanzew | Univision |
Sammy Sadovnik | Telemundo |
The Awards will be given out at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Frederick P. Rose Hall, located in the Time Warner Center, on Tuesday May 6.