Sports Emmy Awards

The Sports Emmy Awards are Emmy Awards that are given away for coverage of sports. The awards ceremony takes place every Spring, usually sometime in the last two weeks in April or the first week in May, and is held on a Monday night in New York City. Awards are given away for live sporting events, weekly sports series, and they are also given to broadcasters. The awards are all given away at one ceremony, unlike the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which hold a "Creative Arts" ceremony in which Emmys are given to behind-the-scenes personnel.

Categories

At that inaugural ceremony in 1979, there were 12 categories. At the 2005 ceremony, the number of categories had risen to 28.

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Here are all of those 28 categories:

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• Outstanding Live Sports Special
• Outstanding Live Sports Series
• Outstanding Live Event Turnaround
• Outstanding Edited Sports Special
• Outstanding Sports Documentary
• Oustanding Edited Sports Series — Anthology
• Outstanding Studio Show
• Weekly (i.e. HBO's Inside the NFL, which won this award in 2005)
• Daily (i.e. the 2005 winner, ESPN's SportsCenter)
• Outstanding Sports Personality
• Studio Host
• Play-by-Play
• Studio Analyst and Sports Event Analyst
• Oustanding Technical Team
• Remote
• Studio
• Outstanding Camera Work
• Outstanding Editing
• Dick Schaap Oustanding Writing Award
• Outstanding Music Composition — Direction — Lyrics
• Outstanding Live Event Audio — Sound
• Outstanding Post Produced Audio — Sound
• Outstanding Graphic Design
• Outstanding Production Design — Art Direction
• George Wensel Outstanding Innovative Technical Achievement Award
• Outstanding Sports Journalism
• Outstanding Open — Tease
• Outstanding Long Feature
• Sports Lifetime Achievement Award

The Sports Lifetime Achievement Award was first given away in 1989, when it was awarded to Jim McKay. It has also been awarded to Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, and Jack Buck, as well as many other legends in sports television. See the full list for all the winners.

Related Topics:
1989 - Jim McKay - Vin Scully - Dick Enberg - Jack Buck

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In 1998 and 2002, one show actually had two features win the Outstanding Sports Journalism Emmy. HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel pulled off the tie the first time in '98, with ESPN's weekly edition of Outside the Lines duplicating the feat in 2002.

Related Topics:
1998 - 2002 - Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - Outside the Lines

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It should also be noted that, in addition to winning many Sports Emmys, NBC's Olympics coverage has also earned the network Primetime Emmys.

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There are two now-defunct categories that gave Emmys to on-air talent — Outstanding Host or Commentator and Outstanding Analyst. A list of winners for the latter can be found in the Studio and Sports Event Analyst article.

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