ESPN Leads Industry with 50 Sports Emmy Nominations

ESPN, Inc. once again led the industry in Sports Emmy Award nominations, earning 50 for 2016, announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Leading the way:

• SC Featured received 10 nominations (second only to 14 for the Summer Olympics on NBC), including many for various individual features and in the News Anthology category (along with E:60 and Outside the Lines)
• College football totaled seven nominations - three for the COLLEGE FOOTBALL Playoff National Championship (Live Special, Technical Team Remote and Trans-Media Coverage for the "Megacast" which won last year), Live Series, two for Kirk Herbstreit (Studio and Event Analyst) and COLLEGE GAMEDAY for Weekly Studio Show. CGG has won the category six times, including the last three years.
• E:60 garnered five nominations, two for Short Feature and two for Long Feature, in addition to Sports News Anthology.
• Monday Night Football earned three nominations - Live Series, Live Graphics and Live Coverage in Spanish.
• Outside the Lines was nominated twice in the Journalism category, in addition to News Anthology.
• ESPN Deportes received three nominations - Futbol Picante in Spanish Studio Show and Andres Agulla for Spanish Talent, in addition to the MNF nomination above.
• ESPN's first-ever coverage of the Invictus Games received three nominations: Long Feature, Short Form Editing for the Opening Tease and in the Writing category.

The winners will be announced Tuesday, May 9, in New York. ESPN has won 180 Sports Emmy Awards in 29 years of eligibility. ABC Sports won 160 from 1980 - 2008.

As previously announced, sportscasting legend Brent Musburger, who in January stepped aside from his longtime role with ABC and ESPN, will be honored with the Sports Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.

ESPN's 50 nominations by category (all are ESPN, except as noted):

Live Special	NBA Finals (ABC)
	College Football Playoff National Championship
Live Series	College Football (ESPN/ABC)
	Monday Night Football
Short Sports Documentary	SC Featured: Gift from the Groves
	SC Featured: Run Hopi
Long Sports Documentary	30 for 30: The '85 Bears
	Keepers of the Game (ABC)
	SC Featured: Pin Kings (ESPN2)
Serialized Sports Documentary	espnW Film Fellowship: Run Mama Run (espnw.com)
Studio Show Weekly	College GameDay (football)
Studio Show Daily	Pardon the Interruption
News Anthology	E:60 (ESPN2)
	Outside the Lines
	SC Featured
Sports Journalism	Outside the Lines: The Baylor Scandal
	Outside the Lines: After the Fall
Short Feature	E:60 - Minneflowta
	E:60 - The Last Round: Muhammad Ali
	SC Featured: Inky Johnson
Long Feature	Invictus Games (WatchESPN)
	E:60 - Life as Matt (ESPN2)
	E:60 - The Number (ESPN2)
	SC Featured: The Chicken Runs at Midnight
	SC Featured: The Meaning of Miyah
Open/Tease	Jimmy V Classic
Trans-Media Sports Coverage	College Football Playoff National Championship (ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPNEWS/ESPN Deportes/ESPN3/SEC Network)
Digital Innovation	College GameDay / SC Featured: Jacob Jarvis, Why It Matters
Studio Analyst	Kirk Herbstreit
Event Analyst	Jay Bilas
	Kirk Herbstreit
Technical Team Remote	College Football Playoff National Championship
Camerawork	SC Featured: Arthur
Editing - Short Form	Grand Slam Tennis: Australian Open, US Open Features (ESPN/ESPN2)
	Invictus Games: Opening Tease
	SC Featured: Inky Johnson
Editing - Long Form	30 for 30: The '85 Bears
Writing	Invictus Games
Music Direction	Los Capitanes: Olympic Suite (ESPN Deportes)
Live Event Audio/Sound	100th Indianapolis 500
Live Graphic Design	UEFA Euro 2016
	World Cup of Hockey (ESPN/ESPN2)
Post-Produced Graphic Design	Monday Night Football
	Sport Science
Studio Design/Art Direction	Mike & Mike: Studio F (ESPN2)
	UEFA Euro 2016
Technical Achievement	MLS on ESPN: Goal Post Cam (ESPN/ESPN2)
Live Sports Coverage in Spanish	Monday Night Football Desde Mexico: Houston vs. Oakland (ESPN Deportes)
Studio Show in Spanish	Futbol Picante (ESPN Deportes)
On-Air Personality in Spanish	Andres Agulla

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