NBC Sports Group earned 28 Sports Emmy Award nominations for 2015, highlighted by 10 nominations for its NFL coverage, five nominations for its coverage of horseracing's Triple Crown, and three for its first season of NASCAR coverage.
The announcement was made today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Winners will be announced by the Academy on Tuesday, May 10, at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.
Highlights of
NBC Sports Group's nominations:
Sunday Night Football - primetime television's No. 1 show - was nominated for Outstanding Live Sports Series for the eighth consecutive year, and has won the award in six of the last seven years;
NBC Sports Group's coverage of American Pharoah's historic Triple Crown run garnered five nominations, highlighted by the nomination of NBC's 147th Belmont
STAKES presentation in the Outstanding Live Sports Special category;
26-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas (NBC) was nominated for Outstanding Sports Personality - Studio Host;
NBC and
NBCSN commentators earned four of five nominations for Outstanding Sports Personality - Play-by-Play, including seven-time Emmy winner Al Michaels (NBC), three-time Emmy winner Mike 'Doc' Emrick (NBC/NBCSN), who has won the award the last two years, and the father-and-son commentating duo of Marv Albert and Kenny Albert;
Cris Collinsworth (NBC) who has won seven consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Sports Personality - Sports Event Analyst, was nominated again in the category;
Michele Tafoya (NBC), a two-time Emmy Award-winner for Outstanding Sports Personality - Sports Reporter (2011 & 2013), was nominated again in the category;
Sammy Sadovnik's nomination in the Outstanding On-Air Talent in Spanish category headlines seven combined nominations for
Telemundo and
NBC UNIVERSO.
All of
NBC Sports Group's national television networks -
NBC (19),
NBCSN (8), and
Golf Channel (1), as well as Spanish-language networks
Telemundo (4), and
NBC UNIVERSO (3) - received nominations.
The complete list of
NBC Sports Group nominations are as follows:
Outstanding Live Sports Special: 147th Belmont
STAKES (NBC)
Outstanding Live Sports Series:
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (NBC)
Outstanding Playoff Coverage: NFL Divisional Playoffs - Green Bay Packers vs. Arizona Cardinals (NBC)
Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage:
NFL TURNING POINT (NBCSN)
Outstanding Edited Sports Coverage:
SPARTAN RACE (NBC/NBCSN)
Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly:
FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA (NBC)
Outstanding Open/Tease: The 141st Kentucky Derby - Opening Tease (NBC)
Outstanding Short Feature: Team
USA Awards - David Brown & Jerome Avery (NBCSN)
Outstanding Social TV Experience: The 141st Kentucky Derby - Social TV Experience (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Studio Host: Bob Costas (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Play-by-Play: Kenny Albert (FOX/FS1/NBCSN)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Play-by-Play: Marv Albert (tbs/TNT/truTV/CBS/NBC)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Play-by-Play: Mike Emrick (NBC/NBCSN)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Play-by-Play: Al Michaels (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Sports Event Analyst: Cris Collinsworth (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Personality - Sports Reporter: Michele Tafoya (NBC)
Outstanding Technical Team Remote:
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (NBC)
Outstanding Camera Work: The Triple Crown (NBC)
Outstanding Editing - Short Form:
Golf Channel Live Tournaments - 2015 Tournament Teases (Golf Channel)
Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound: NASCAR on
NBC (NBC/NBCSN)
Outstanding Live Graphic Design: NASCAR on
NBC (NBC/NBCSN)
Outstanding Studio Design/Art Direction:
FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement: NASCAR on
NBC - America, Start Your Engines (NBC)
Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement:
NBC Sports - Fan for Life (NBCSN)
Outstanding Live Sports Coverage in Spanish: FIFA Women's World Cup Final:
USA vs. Japan (Telemundo/NBC UNIVERSO)
Outstanding Live Sports Coverage in Spanish: Rumbo Al Mundial - Honduras vs. Mexico (Telemundo/NBC UNIVERSO)
Outstanding Studio Show in Spanish: Titulares
Telemundo (Telemundo)
Outstanding On-Air Sports Talent in Spanish: Sammy Sadovnik (Telemundo/NBC UNIVERSO)
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