ESPN, Inc. – Industry-Leading 54 Sports Emmy Nominations

ESPN, Inc. – Industry-Leading 54 Sports Emmy Nominations

E:60, Outside the Lines & Motorsports Lead the Way; First Nomination for ESPN Deportes

New Programming Honored:  Three Each for “30 for 30” Films and SportsNation

ESPN, Inc., earned 54 Sports Emmy Award nominations, the most of any submitting company for the ninth time in 10 years, it was announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  The total matches the company’s record, set last year.  The winners will be announced Monday, April 26.

ESPN’s nominations encompassed the entire scope of the company’s efforts – studio and event production, including editorial/creative and technical categories for both; original programming from ESPN Content Development; three each for ESPN.com and promotional spots; as well as the first nomination for Spanish-language ESPN Deportes (for The Lost Son of Havana about former baseball pitcher Luis Tiant in the Sports Documentary category).  In addition, numerous inpidual commentators received nominations:  Mike Breen, Chris Fowler, Jon Gruden (for his first year on Monday Night Football), Kirk Herbstreit, Mike Tirico and Jeff Van Gundy.

ESPN2’s newsmagazine, E:60, topped all competitors with seven nominations, including Best Edited Series and four nominees between the Short and Long Features categories.  Five motorsports submissions were nominated, including the Indy 500 on ABC for Best Live Special and three for NASCAR.  Outside the Lines – winner of 11 Sports Emmy Awards in its history – received four nominations (Best Daily Studio Show, and three in the Long Feature category).

Other notes:

• Four nominations in studio show categories (SportsCenter, Outside the Lines First Report and Pardon the Interruption for Daily Shows; College GameDay for Weekly Shows, which it won in 2008)
• Three nominations or NFL (Monday Night Football for Production Design/Art Direction and Tech Team Remote, NFL Draft for Tech Team Studio)
• Three nominations for Grand Slam tennis programming (Live Series, Production Design/Art Direction and Writing)
• Three nominations for the “30 for 30” film series (for Best Edited Series, and The Legend of Jimmy the Greek and Without Bias in Sports Documentary)
• Three nominations for ESPN2’s new weekday SportsNation (Production Design/Art Direction, Tech Team Studio and Graphic Design).
• Three nominations for ESPN.com – which has won six Sports Emmys in four years of eligibility (“Super Bowl MVPs” and “Unspeakable” in Sports Programming, and “Sincerely, Lou” in Short Format)
• Three nominations for promo spots, in the Institutional category, for NASCAR, This is SportsCenter and One Game Changes Everything.

Overall, ESPN has won 128 Sports Emmy Awards in 22 years of eligibility.  ABC Sports won 160 from 1980 – 2008.

ESPN’s nominations by category (all are ESPN, except as noted):

Live Special Breeders Cup World Championship

Indianapolis 500 (ABC)

Live Series Grand Slam Tennis (ESPN2)

Live Event Turnaround Bassmaster Classic (ESPN2)

World Series of Poker Final Table

Sports Documentary The Legend of Jimmy the Greek

The Lost Son of Havana (ESPN Deportes)

Without Bias

Edited Series 30 for 30

E:60 (ESPN2)

Studio Show/weekly College GameDay

Studio Show/daily Outside the Lines First Report

Pardon the Interruption

SportsCenter

Journalism E:60 – Wanted: Fugitive (ESPN2)

Short Feature E:60 – Glory Days (ESPN2)

E:60 – Seeing is Believing (ESPN2)

Long Feature E:60 – Catfish Hunters (ESPN2)

E:60 – Coach (ESPN2)

Outside the Lines – Andy Murray

Outside the Lines – Carry On

Outside the Lines – Pushing the Limits

New Approaches –

Sports Programming Super Bowl MVPs (ESPN.com)

Unspeakable (ESPN.com)

New Approaches –

Short Format Sincerely, Lou (ESPN.com)

Studio Host Chris Fowler

Play-by-Play Mike Breen (ABC)

Mike Tirico

Studio Analyst Kirk Herbstreit

Event Analyst Jon Gruden

Jeff Van Gundy (ABC)

Technical Team Remote Monday Night Football

NASCAR (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2)

Technical Team Studio NFL Draft

NASCAR Pit Studio & Tech Garage (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2)

SportsNation (ESPN2)

Editing NASCAR Cup Season in Review (ESPN2)

Writing 2009 Open Championship (ABC)

Grand Slam Tennis (ESPN2)

Horse Racing

Music The Masters

Graphic Design E:60 (ESPN2)

Red Bull – New Year.  No Limits

SportsNation (ESPN2)

Winter X Games 13

Prod.Design/Art Direction Monday Night Football

Grand Slam Tennis (ESPN2)

SportsNation (ESPN2)

Indianapolis 500 (ABC)

USA vs. Costa Rica Soccer

Technical Achievement EA Sports Virtual Playbook Remote (NBA/College GameDay)

Promo – Institutional NASCAR

One Game Changes Everything

This is SportsCenter

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