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<\/a><\/p>\nAs previously announced,\u00a0Verne Lundquist, CBS Sports\u2019 lead play-by-play announcer for college football and iconic broadcaster of more than 20 sports, will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports at the ceremony, which will take place on\u00a0Tuesday May 10 at Jazz at Lincoln Center\u2019s Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center in New York City.<\/p>\n
Sports Emmy Spotlight: <\/strong>Technical Categories The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award will go to one of the following: Turner\/CBS for its NCAA RailCam at 2015 NCAA March Madness, ESPN for the Pylon Cam at the\u00a0CFP National Championship\/Monday Night Football<\/em>, MLB Advanced Media’s Statcast during MLB Network Showcase<\/em>, CBS’s EyeVision 360 at Super Bowl 50, or Fox Sports’ Rangefinder at the U.S. Open golf tournament.<\/p>\n ESPN earned Technical Team Remote nods for its 2015 US Open tennis and Monday Night Football<\/em> coverage, along with NBC’s Sunday Night Football<\/em>, CBS’s Super Bowl 50, and Fox’s U.S. Open golf. ESPN also took two nominations in the Technical Team Studio category for College GameDay<\/em> (football) and SportsCenter<\/em>, while Fox’s FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015, MLB Network’s MLB Tonight<\/em>, and NFL Network’s Super Bowl 50 efforts were also acknowledged.<\/p>\n Sports Emmy Spotlight: Live Event Categories NBC was second with seven nods (two apiece for NASCAR on NBC<\/em> and Sunday Night Football<\/em>\/NFL Playoffs coverage). For their part, CBS had five Live Event category nominations, and ESPN had three.<\/p>\n CBS earned nominations for its coverage of Super Bowl 50 and The Masters golf in the\u00a0coveted Live Sports Special category, along with NBC’s 147th Belmont Stakes, TNT’s NBA All-Star Saturday Night<\/em>, and Fox’s World Series. Fox garnered two nominations in the Live Sports Series field for NASCAR on Fox<\/em> and NFL on Fox<\/em>, while ESPN College Football<\/em>, NBC’s Sunday Night Football<\/em>, and CBS\/NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football<\/em> took the remaining three slots.<\/p>\n Breaking Down the Nominations By Network Fox Sports\u00a0rode its live event coverage to 38 nods this year, headlined by six for the FIFA Women’s World Cup and three for\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Open golf tournament. Fox once again ruled the Live Event Audio\/Sound category \u2014 as it has for several years running \u2014 earning four of the five nominations for its MLB, NASCAR, NFL, and U.S. Open golf coverage. It also grabbed three of the five nominations for Outstanding Playoff Coverage for the ALCS (Blue Jays-Royals), ALDS (Rangers-Blue Jays), and NFC Divisional Playoff (Packers-Cardinals). In all, NATAS gave Fox’s live MLB coverage garnered\u00a0four nominations, NFL three, and NASCAR two. Not to be outdone, Fox Sports’ studio programming also scored, with\u00a0Fox Sports Live<\/em> earning seven\u00a0slots and Garbage Time With Katie Nolan<\/em>\u00a0taking home two.<\/p>\n CBS scored big with Super Bowl 50,\u00a0which led the way with seven of its 29 nominations. CBS Sports also earned a pair of\u00a0nods each for its production of The Masters golf and Thursday Night Football<\/em> (plus another for its\u00a0AFC Playoffs coverage).\u00a0Showtime notched a trio of nods\u00a0for its behind-the-scenes docuseries chronicling Floyd Mayweather fights, All Access: Mayweather vs. Berto<\/em>\u00a0earning two and Inside Mayweather vs. Pacquiao<\/em> taking another.\u00a0CBS also earned a pair of Outstanding Digital Innovation nods for its Army-Navy\u00a0game 360 experience<\/a>,\u00a0and Showtime’s virtual-reality\/360 production<\/a> of the Jacobs-Quillin WBA Middleweight World Championship fight.<\/p>\n NBC\u00a0Sports Group earned 28 Sports\u00a0Emmy\u00a0Award nominations for 2015, highlighted by 10 for its NFL coverage, five for its coverage of horseracing\u2019s Triple Crown, and three for its first season of NASCAR coverage. Notably, Sunday\u00a0Night Football<\/em>\u00a0was nominated for Outstanding Live Sports Series for the eighth consecutive year, having\u00a0won the award in six of the last seven years. American Pharoah\u2019s historic Triple Crown run garnered five nominations for NBC\u2019s coverage, highlighted by a nod for NBC\u2019s 147th Belmont Stakes presentation in the Outstanding Live Sports Special category.<\/p>\n Turner Sports’ NBA coverage led the way in its 16 Sports Emmy nods, including three apiece for Inside the NBA on TNT<\/em> and NBA All-Star Weekend. Turner also combined with CBS to earn two nominations\u00a0for NCAA March Madness, as well as one\u00a0for NCAA March Madness Live on NCAA.com, which\u00a0is operated by Turner Sports.<\/p>\n HBO Sports’ haul of 13 was led\u00a0by Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel<\/em> (4),\u00a0followed by\u00a0its docuseries: five for\u00a0Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Houston Texans\u00a0<\/em>and two for Mayweather\/Pacquiao: At Last<\/em>. HBO’s Back on Board: Greg Louganis<\/em> was also nominated for Long Sports Documentary.<\/p>\n MLB Network’s studio programming took center stage in its 11 nominations,\u00a0MLB Tonight<\/em> (Studio Show \u2013 Daily and Technical Team Studio) and MLB Central<\/em> (Post-Produced Graphic Design) got\u00a0three nods each, its Studio 21 a\u00a0Design\/Art Direction received a nom, and three of the five Sports Personality \u2013 Studio Analyst nominations went to MLB Network talent AL Leiter, Harold Reynolds, and Bill Ripken. MLB Advanced Media’s innovative Statcast player-tracking platform (featured on MLB Network Showcase<\/em>) was also nominated for the\u00a0George Wensel Technical Achievement Award.<\/p>\n NFL Network earned eight nominations, highlighted by a Live Series Nomination for Thursday Night Football<\/em> (co-produced with CBS) and\u00a0Technical Team Studio for its\u00a0Super Bowl 50 coverage. 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\n<\/strong>ESPN came away with five nominations in the Technical categories (Technical Team Remote, Technical Team Studio, and George Wensel Technical Achievement Award), followed by CBS and Fox with three apiece and MLB Network with two. NBC Sports Group, Turner Sports, and NFL Media also earned a Technical nod each.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Fox Sports dominated the Live Event categories (Live Sports Special, Live Sports Series, Playoff Coverage, Live Event Audio\/Sound, Live Graphic Design, and Live Sports Coverage in Spanish) this year with 11 nominations, including four for MLB on Fox<\/em>\/MLB Postseason and three for NFL regular-season\/playoffs coverage.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>ESPN\u2019s 57 nominations were led by 10 apiece for ESPN Films\u2019\u00a030 for 30<\/em>\u00a0series (including four for\u00a030 for 30 Shorts<\/em>) and college-football coverage (four for\u00a0College GameDay)<\/em>, plus noms in Live Series, Trans-Media Sports Coverage, Technical Team Studio, Live Graphic Design, and Technical Achievement). SportsCenter<\/em>\u00a0earned nine nods, while E:60<\/em>\u00a0had eight.\u00a0ESPN\u2019s \u201cStorytelling Unit\u201d \u2014 a group within production \u2014 contributed 14 of the nominations,\u00a0for\u00a0E:60, SportsCenter, College<\/em> GameDay<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Outside the Lines<\/em>.<\/p>\n