35Th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards
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CONTINUING THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE THE STANDARD CONTINUING CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AWARD NOMINEES Outstanding Editing Outstanding Sports Documentary Series The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award Outstanding Camera Work Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound Outstanding Open/Tease Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement (Episodic) Outstanding Editing Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound Outstanding Live Sports Series Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement (Institutional): “Fall Boxing Image” ® Outstanding Editing Outstanding Sports News Anthology Outstanding Sports Journalism: “Putin’s Olympics: Cronyism And Corruption In Russia” ©2014 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. ©ATAS/NATAS NHL, the NHL Shield and NHL Winter Classic word mark are registered trademarks and the NHL Winter Classic logo and NHL Network are trademarks of the National Hockey League. ® 35th Annual SPORTS EMMY AWARDS FROM THE CHAIR On behalf of the 13,000 members of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, I am delighted to welcome each of you to the 35th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards. Tonight, we are presenting the prestigious Emmy® Award for outstanding achievement in Sports Broadcasting in 39 categories. The world of sports television grows bigger each year with over 900 submissions and 185 nominees coming from the sports community in this year’s competition. In tribute to these talented individuals, the National Academy salutes the hard work and commitment of tonight’s nominees whose efforts have broadened the way we experience Sports events across the world. In addition to the tremendous talent we have here tonight, we are also honoring Ted Turner, sportsman, innovator, media magnate and humanitarian, with our Lifetime Achievement Award in sports. We would like to acknowledge some people who have made tonight’s event possible. We are extremely thankful to our judges, who gave of their time to evaluate the many entries this year. Their efforts allow us to celebrate the best and the brightest in our industry. In addition, we would like to thank the leaders of the Sports Steering Committee who, working with the National Academy’s staff, have helped to produce a unique and entertaining program. I would also like to extend special thanks to Linda Giannecchini and Chuck Dages, the co-chairs of our Awards Committee, for their countless hours and commitment to honoring the best that television can be. Finally, I would like to thank the staff of the National Academy, especially the Executive Director of the Sports Program, Steve Ulrich, and his Associate Director, Steve Head. Best of luck and enjoy the show! Malachy G. Wienges Chair The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS PROGRAM Outstanding Studio Show in Spanish 26 Outstanding On-Air Sports Personality in Spanish 28 The George Wensel Technical Achievement Award 14 Outstanding Sports News Anthology 28 Outstanding Live Event Audio / Sound 14 Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Event Coverage 29 Outstanding Production Design / Art Direction 14 Outstanding Open / Tease 30 Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly 15 Outstanding Post–Produced Audio / Sound 31 Outstanding Long Feature 16 Outstanding Sports Personality – Studio Analyst 31 Outstanding Editing 17 Outstanding Studio Design / Art Direction 31 Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement – Episodic 17 The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award 31 Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Reporter 17 Outstanding Sports Documentary 32 Outstanding Live Event Graphic Design 21 Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Programming 33 Outstanding Sports Documentary Series 21 Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Event Analyst 33 Outstanding Technical Team Studio 22 Lifetime Achievement Award – Ted Turner Outstanding New Approaches – Sports Programming Short Format 22 Outstanding Sports Journalism 33 Outstanding Playoff Coverage 23 Outstanding Technical Team Remote 34 Outstanding Camera Work 24 Outstanding Short Feature 34 Outstanding Post-Produced Graphic Design 24 Outstanding Live Sports Series 34 Outstanding Music Composition / Direction / Lyrics 25 Outstanding Studio Show – Daily 35 Outstanding Sports Promotional Announcement – Institutional 25 Outstanding Edited Sports Event Coverage 38 Outstanding Sports Personality Play-By-Play 26 Outstanding Live Sports Special 39 Outstanding Live Sports Coverage in Spanish 26 Outstanding Sports Personality – Studio Host 40 3 ® 35th Annual SPORTS EMMY AWARDS Lifetime Achievement Honoree TED TURNER Celebrating the Atlanta Braves 1995 World Series Championship by Ed Sherman hey all said this young, brash guy from Atlanta was changing the landscape of sports television. His move in T “crazy.” airing Atlanta baseball and basketball games on WTBS was Ted Turner had to be off-kilter to air Atlanta Braves games a forerunner for ESPN and other sports cable networks, across the country on something he dubbed a “Superstation” national and local, serving fans a 24/7 menu of games, sports back in the mid-70s. Who wants to watch that much baseball, news, talk and analysis. especially a team that was floundering back then? Was his Turner’s impact makes him the worthy recipient grand scheme doomed to fail? of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Looking back 40 years later, Turner enjoys yet another in National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In the a series of last laughs. announcement, NATAS chairman Malachy Wienges said, “Sure, people thought I was crazy,” Turner said. “But, I “The world of sports and news television has been forever knew it would help our ratings, and I was right. Once the changed by the vision of this one man.” Braves became known as ‘America’s Team’, my critics stopped Indeed, when Turner’s name was mentioned, CBS calling me ‘crazy.’” Chairman Sean McManus, who served on the selection Turner has long since been hailed as a visionary for committee, was among those who assumed he already had Continued on Page 6 4 ©2014 Southern Company Southern Company congratulates Ted Turner on his Lifetime Achievement Award We admire his legendary achievements in business and philanthropy. And we are proud to partner with Turner Renewable Energy on solar projects that serve communities across America. ® 35th Annual SPORTS EMMY AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Left to Right: Ted Turner being interviewed for The Goodwill Games, cheering on his Atlanta Hawks, and standing with the America’s Cup and World Series trophies 2016, Turner will air the championship game. the business better than anyone else.” “This guy is a true visionary,” Levy said. “He said, ‘Content Turner’s TV ride began when he purchased a struggling is king’ before anyone else said content is king. He realized UHF station in Atlanta in 1970. Looking for programming, sports were a huge part of that content. He really understood WTCG (which stood for “Watch This Channel Grow”) Continued on Page 10 Congratulations to Ted Turner For receiving the NATAS Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports. From all of us at Cox Enterprises, we salute you! 8 ® 35th Annual SPORTS EMMY AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD started to air Atlanta Braves games in 1974. After the Braves Now, the Braves were going coast-to-coast. Initially, even sunk to a 67-94 record in 1975 and drew only 534,672 fans, Turner admits he might have underestimated the impact of prompting speculation the team could move to Toronto, their games across the country Turner stepped in and bought the franchise. He also added “The Atlanta Braves were initially a losing team, so I really the Atlanta Hawks to his portfolio the following year. didn’t see airing their games outside of the Atlanta market as They were purely TV deals for Turner. a threat to other franchises,” Turner said. “But, I was wrong. “We needed viewers, and Atlanta sports teams came A lot of people didn’t like the idea, but it proved to really pay with built-in audiences,” Turner said. “Fans wanted to see off for us by increasing ratings and the Braves’ fan base.” the Braves play, and were willing to buy UHF antennas TBS helped the Braves solidify their place as ‘’America’s if necessary. Once they had the antennas, we knew that Team.’’ In 1982, they won the National League West pennant. people would watch not only the Braves, but our other Attendance more than tripled to 1.8 million. And TBS was programming as well.” reaching 25 million homes, up from 700,000 six years before. Added Levy: “He owned the teams not for the vanity of Ernie Johnson Jr. literally had a first-hand look on the owning a team. He realized (the games) are a lot of content Superstation’s impact on the Braves and TV sports. His in primetime.” father, Ernie Johnson Sr., was the long-time Braves’ play-by- Turner’s next move then was to rename the station WTBS play voice for Turner. and link it to satellite. This allowed early cable operators to “My dad started getting letters from all over the country,” gain access to his “Superstation” for a small fee. Johnson said. “People were listening to him everywhere. It Continued on Page 12 TRIBUTE FROM LARRY KING Ted Turner changed my life in more ways than one. I had interviewed him quite a few times on my shows out of Miami and Washington and when an opening occurred at CNN for 9 o’clock, he called me. Wanted an answer immediately, which is Ted’s way. We gave him an answer the next day. I rolled the dice. He said if you are unhappy after one year, you can leave the show. Well, the first night I went on, I knew it would work. The Larry King Live show became a 26 year entity. The longest running show to be hosted by the same person, at the same hour, on the same network. Ted is the greatest person I’ve ever worked for. One, he never bothered you.