30 for 30, College Football, E:60 and SportsCenter Lead the Way
ESPN, Inc. led the industry with 57 Sports Emmy Award nominations for 2015, matching its record set a year ago. Leading the way was:
- ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 series with 10 nods (including four for 30 for 30 Shorts)
- College football totaled 10 nominations – four for College GameDay including two-time winner Kirk Herbstreit, plus in Live Series, Trans-Media Sports Coverage (National Championship presentation across ESPN, ESPN3, ESPNU and ESPN GoalLine), Technical Team Studio, Live Graphic Design and Technical Achievement (for Pylon Cam)
- SportsCenter with nine (including for hosts Hannah Storm and Scott Van Pelt, four for SC Featured pieces and one for the This is SportsCenter promo campaign)
- E:60 with eight, spread across the News Anthology, Journalism, Long Feature, Camerawork and Writing categories
- In addition to Storm, Van Pelt and Herbstreit, other individuals earning a nomination are Jay Bilas (studio analyst), Jon Gruden and Jeff Van Gundy (event analyst) and Tom Rinaldi (reporter).
Of note, ESPN’s “Storytelling Unit” – a group within production – contributed 14 of the nominations. They aired on E:60, SportsCenter, College GameDay and Outside the Lines.
The winners will be announced Tuesday, May 10, in New York. ESPN has won 171 Sports Emmy Awards in 28 years of eligibility. ABC Sports won 160 from 1980 – 2008.
ESPN’s nominations by category (all are ESPN, except as noted):
| Live Series | College Football (ESPN, ABC) |
| Short Sports Documentary | 30 for 30 Shorts – Brave in the Attempt |
| 30 for 30 Shorts – First Pitch | |
| 30 for 30 Shorts – Unhittable – Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball | |
| SC Featured – No Excuses | |
| Long Sports Documentary | 30 for 30 – Four Falls of Buffalo |
| 30 for 30 – I Hate Christian Laettner | |
| 30 for 30 – Of Miracles and Men | |
| Studio Show/weekly | College GameDay (football) |
| News Anthology | E:60 (ESPN2) |
| Outside the Lines (ESPN, ESPN2) | |
| SC Featured | |
| Sports Journalism | E:60 – Sepp Blatter’s FIFA |
| E:60 – The Turf War | |
| Short Feature | College GameDay – Adam Griffith: Family Ties |
| E:60 – Made in Dietrich | |
| Long Feature | E:60 – Ernie Johnson |
| E:60 – Silent Night Lights | |
| SC Featured – Miraculous: The Austin Hatch Story | |
| Open/Tease | Jimmy V Classic open |
| Trans-Media Sports Coverage | 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship (ESPN, ESPN3, ESPNU, ESPN GoalLine) |
| Digital Innovation | ESPN on Snapchat Discover |
| Social TV Experience | 30 for 30 – I Hate Christian Laettner |
| Studio Host | Hannah Storm |
| Scott Van Pelt | |
| Studio Analyst | Jay Bilas |
| Event Analyst | Jon Gruden |
| Kirk Herbstreit (ABC, ESPN) | |
| Jeff Van Gundy (ABC) | |
| Reporter | Tom Rinaldi |
| Technical Team Remote | US Open Tennis (ESPN, ESPN2) |
| Monday Night Football | |
| Technical Team Studio | College GameDay (football) |
| SportsCenter (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS) | |
| Camerawork | E:60 – First in Flight (ABC) |
| Editing – Short Form | Indianapolis 500 tease |
| Jimmy V Classic tease | |
| Editing – Long Form | 30 for 30 – Sole Man (Grantland.com) |
| 30 for 30 Shorts – Every Day | |
| Writing | E:60 – The Family Business (ESPN2) |
| The Open Championship | |
| Music Interpretation | 30 for 30 – Of Miracles and Men |
| Post-Produced Sound | Indianapolis 500 tease (ABC) |
| Live Graphic Design | College Football (ESPN, ABC, ESPN2) |
| Monday Night Football | |
| Post-Produced Graphic Design | Heisman Trophy Presentation |
| Baseball Tonight – John Kruk #NotPictured | |
| Monday Night Football – Enhanced Content Graphics | |
| Studio Design/Art Direction | SportsCenter – SVP Studio X |
| Production Design/Art Direction | Special Olympics World Games – SC Featured: Smile |
| Technical Achievement | College Football Playoff National Championship / Monday Night Football – ESPN Pylon Cam |
| Promotional Announcement | SportsCenter – This is SportsCenter |
| Studio Show in Spanish | Béisbol Esta Noche (ESPN Deportes) |
| Nación ESPN (ESPN Deportes) | |
| SportsCenter Deportes (ESPN Deportes) | |
| On-Air Personality in Spanish | David Faitelson |
| Ernesto Jerez |
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