The Sports Emmy Awards are Emmy Awards that are given away for coverage of sports from the previous calendar year. 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. An Emmy Award. ... In the Gregorian calendar in common use, the calendar year begins on January 1, and ends on December 31. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York- based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ...

History

The first Emmy for sports coverage was handed out at the second annual Primetime Emmys in 1950, where KTLA, a local television station in California, won for coverage of pro wrestling. Another Los Angeles-based station, KNBH, won the award the next year for their coverage of Los Angeles Rams (now St. Louis Rams) football. At the seventh Emmys in 1955, NBC became the first major network to win a Sports Emmy for its series, the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This redirect page is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... Professional wrestling is a form of performance entertainment where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... The St. ... City Saint Louis, Missouri Other nicknames {{{nicknames}}} Team colors New Century Gold, Millennium Blue, and White Head Coach Scott Linehan Owner Georgia Frontiere and E. Stanley Kroenke General manager Charlie Armey Fight song {{{song}}} Mascot {{{mascot}}} Local radio Flagship stations: KLOU (103. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports was one of the earliest television programs ever broadcasted. ...

In 1979, an Emmys exclusively for sports coverage was held for the first time at the Rainbow Room in New York City. Winners included legendary golf announcer Jack Whitaker, and CBS for The NFL Today. The ninth annual Sports Emmy Awards were held on July 13, 1988, and became the first Sports Emmys to be televised. The hosts that year were actors Alan Thicke and Joan Van Ark. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, at the time, a frequent guest on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman, did a performance. The live telecast was syndicated nationwide by Raycom Sports. Robert Klein hosted in 1989, and Dennis Miller hosted in 1991, a Sports Emmys that was broadcast by ESPN. This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Rainbow Room is a well-known upscale restaurant on the sixty-fifth floor of the GE Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. ... Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Jack Whitaker is an award-winning American sportscaster who worked for both CBS and ABC. Whitaker began his broadcasting career in 1947 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... The NFL Today is a TV program that precedes the American football program The NFL on CBS on CBS Sports, which is the sports division of the U.S. TV station network CBS. The program usually airs at noon on Sundays of the National Football League regular season. ... July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Alan Thicke Alan Thicke, born Alan Willis Jeffrey (March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor, songwriter, game show host and talk-show emcee. ... Joan Van Ark as Gloria Fisher Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943 in New York, New York) is an actress who is best known for playing Valene (Val) Clements Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on the CBS primetime soap operas Dallas (1978-1981) and Knots Landing (a role she originated... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Jerome Jerry Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, writer and observational comedian from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island hamlet. ... Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. ... Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is a Jewish-American stand-up comedian and occasional actor. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dennis Miller on his self-titled CNBC show Dennis Miller (born November 3, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian, political and social commentator, and television personality. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ESPN (once an abbreviation for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ...

Winners at recent Sports Emmys include Bob Costas, Joe Buck, Al Michaels, Joe Morgan, and Cris Collinsworth. Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952 in Queens, New York) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. ... Joe Buck Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969 in St. ... Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television sportscaster. ... This article is about the baseball player. ... Anthony Cris Collinsworth (b. ...

Categories

At that inaugural ceremony in 1979, there were 12 categories. At the 2006 ceremony, the number of categories had risen to 29. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Here are all of those 29 categories:

• 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
  • 2004 winner: HBO Real Sports (child slavery in the UAE)
• Outstanding Open — Tease
• Outstanding Long Feature
• Outstanding Sports Content Distributed via Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms
  • This award will make its debut in 2006. It will be given for content made especially for devices such as iPods and PSAs.
• 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. The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Special has been awarded since 1976. ... The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Series has been awarded since 1976. ... The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Studio Show has been awarded since 1988. ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... ‹The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... ESPN (once an abbreviation for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... This articles neutrality is compromised by weasel words. Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page. ... The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host has been awarded since 1993. ... The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play was first given away in 1993. ... The Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Analyst and Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Event Analyst made their debuts at the awards show in different years — 1993 for the Studio Analyst award and 1997 for the Sports Event Analyst award. ... Richard J. Schaap (September 27, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York – December 21, 2001 in New York City, New York) was a 20th century American sportswriter, broadcaster, and the author or co-author of 33 books. ... Slavery is any of a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. ... A white fifth-generation iPod with a case and earphones. ... PSA is a TLA which stands for: Public service announcement Prostate-specific antigen, a substance that can be detected in the blood of men and which helps to determine if there may be a prostate cancer Pacific Southwest Airlines, a former U.S. airline that used to fly passenger services... The Sports Lifetime Achievement Award is a special award given away each year at the Sports Emmy Awards. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Kenneth McManus, better known by his professional name of Jim McKay (born September 24, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American television sports journalist. ... Vin Scully publicity photo, © Los Angeles Dodgers Vincent Edward Vin Scully (born November 29, 1927 in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games. ... Dick Enberg (born January 9, 1935 in Armada, Michigan) is an American sportscaster. ... John Francis Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002), born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. ...

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. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Real Sports with Bryant Gumble is a monthly magazine on HBO that started on April 2, 1995. ... Outside the Lines began in 1990 as a monthly progam that examined a critical issue in American sports. ...

It should also be noted that, in addition to winning many Sports Emmys, NBC's Olympics coverage has also earned the network Primetime Emmys. For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ...

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. The Emmy Award for Outstanding Host or Commentator was awarded from 1968 to 1992. ...

External links

• A history of Sports Emmys-You must have Adobe Reader to view this. This is also where most of the information in this article came from. However, the words are the author's own.
• A recap and complete list of winners for the 2005 awards ceremony