Winners of the 33rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards

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Throughout the day, I will be posting various press releases from the networks touting their Sports Emmy Awards. Last night, I posted the winners as they were handed out. Now, we have the official press release from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences which holds the annual ceremonies.

These include the names who were involved in each category. Congratulations to all of the winners this year.

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 33^rd ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY® AWARDS

Jack Whitaker Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

New York, NY – April 30, 2012 – The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the winners of the 33^rd Annual Sports Emmy® Awards at a special ceremony tonight at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.  Winners in 33 categories including Outstanding Live Sports Special, Live Series, Sports Documentary, Studio Show, Promotional Announcements, Play-by-Play Personality and Studio Analyst were honored.

The awards were presented by a distinguished group of sports figures and television personalities including Cris Collinsworth (sports analyst for NBC’s “Sunday Night Football”); Harold Reynolds (MLB Network studio analyst); Michele Tafoya (sideline reporter, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football”); Al Leiter (studio analyst, MLB Network); Mike Mayock (game analyst, NFL Network); Melissa Stark (reporter, NFL Network); Shaquille O’Neal (studio analyst, “Inside the NBA on TNT”); Joe Buck (sportscaster, FOX Sports); Curt Menefee (sportscaster and host, “FOX NFL Sunday”); Tracy Wolfson (sportscaster, CBS Sports); Gary Danielson (commentator, CBS Sports); Mary Carillo (correspondent, HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”); Sage Steele (anchor, ESPN’s “SportsCenter”); Bob Papa (HBO Sports Broadcaster); Ernie Johnson (host of “Inside the NBA on TNT”); Chris McKendry (co-anchor, ESPN’s “SportsCenter”); and Steve Levy (journalist, ESPN’s “SportsCenter”).

One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Jack Whitaker, sports commentator and essayist, by  Jim Nantz, play-by-play announcer of “The NFL on CBS,” NCAA college basketball and golf on CBS.

“We are honored to be presenting Jack Whitaker with our Lifetime Achievement Award,” said Malachy Wienges, Chairman, NATAS. “I had the pleasure of working with Jack for eighteen years at CBS, and Jack is a sports icon and a class act.”

In addition, NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell was honored with the Chairman’s Award representing the networks and their patriotic coverage of the historic 10 year anniversary of September 11^th last year.

The Sports Emmy® Award recipients were chosen by a Blue Ribbon Panel of industry peers.  The awards recognize outstanding achievement by individuals and programs broadcast throughout the 2011 calendar year.

A detailed listing of all awards is below as compiled by the independent accountancy firm of Lutz and Carr, LLP. A list of winners for the 33^rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards is also available on the National Television Academy’s website at www.emmyonline.tv.

Awards by Network Group

NBC Sports Group (NBC, Versus, Golf Channel, nbcsports.com)	9
ESPN (ESPN, ESPN 2, ABC, ESPN 3D, espn.com)	6
Turner Sports (TNT, TBS, NBA TV, NBA.com, truTV)	5
FOX Sports Media Group (FOX, SPEED)	5
CBS (CBS, Showtime, CBSSports.com)	4
HBO Sports	3
MLB Network	3
NFL Network	2
PGA.com	1

Nominations by Network

NBC	8
FOX	4
TNT	4
ESPN	3
HBO Sports	3
MLB NETWORK	3
SHOWTIME	3
ESPN2	2
NFL NETWORK	2
CBSSPORTS.COM	1
ESPN 3D	1
NBA TV	1
PGA.COM	1
SPEED	1
VERSUS	1

And the list of award winners are after the jump.

Outstanding LIVE SPORTS SPECIAL

The World Series — FOX

Executive Producers
Randy Freer, Ed Goren, David Hill, Doug Sellars, Eric Shanks

Coordinating Producer
Scott Ackerson

Senior Producer
Bill Brown

Producers
Don Bui, Larry Lancaster, Carol Langley, Pete Macheska

Senior Videotape Producer
Janice Casazza

Directors
Johnathan Evans, Bill Webb

Associate Producers
Andy Cavanaugh, Eric Mandia, Tyson Wocklish

Director of Production
Jacob Ullman

Operations Producers
Flavia Bowen, Scott Lembke, Jack Simmons

Associate Directors
Bryan Biederman, Eric Billigmeier, Tom Shaffery, Aaron Stojkov

Outstanding LIVE SPORTS SERIES

NBC Sunday Night Football — NBC

Executive Producers
Sam Flood, Mark Lazarus

Producers
Dick Ebersol, Fred Gaudelli

Replay Producer
Kaare Numme

Segment Producers
Charles Dammeyer, Michele Froman, Ken Hirdt

Director
Drew Esocoff

Associate Producers
Ryan Billie, Erin Bollendorf, Drew Devine, Wade Junco, Andrew Macchio, Timothy Nelson, Vincent Rao, Craig Rothberg, Julie Schwarz, Michael Seib

Senior Associate Director
Charlie Vanacore

Associate Directors
Brigette Boginis, Pierre Moossa

Outstanding LIVE EVENT TURNAROUND

Inside the Headsets: 27th All-Star Race — SPEED/NASCAR Media Group

Senior Producers
Pat Berger, Jeff Hillegass, Steve Stum

Producers
Quinn Collins, Patti Ennis, Kevin Foley, Brian Goodwin, Kenan Holley, Sol Horner, Kevin Jackson, Rory Karpf, Wes Konick, Brad Lockhart, Joel Maydak, Kevin McCabe, Autumn Read, Terrell Riley, Wayne Riley, Shawn Truax

Directors
Al Francesco, Jeff Lotierzo, Scott Perry

Associate Producers
Jason Allison, Jeff Barnhill, Brent Buntyn, Harry Cogan, Dave Colozzi, Doris Dalton, Gina Gupton, David Harrison, Andrea Ihle, Craig Johnson, Wayne Morgan, Chris Pepperman, Ben Potts, Suzy Slater, Melissa Verille, Jeremy Wallace, Chris Witmayer

Associate Directors
William Boyer, Jennifer Holmes, Reid O’Brien, Chris Rohlfs, David Rose, Katja Schwarz, Griffin Van Malssen, Jamey Vancil, Glenn Vasko, Jeremy Wallace, Dawn Williams

Outstanding PLAYOFF COVERAGE

Outstanding EDITED SPORTS SERIES/Anthology

The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants— Showtime/MLB Productions

Executive Producers
Tim Brosnan, David Check, David Gavant, Mike Tollin, Christopher Tully

Coordinating Producer
Michael Sullivan

Producers
Craig Axelrod, Eric Barchie, Josh Oshinsky, Peter Panagoulias, Alfonso Pozzo, Paul Solga, Dave Solomon

Associate Producers
Ariel Agami, James Cole, Ilana Elberg, Danny Field, John Gardner, Santiago Gutierrez, Stephen Kaczmarczyk, Jason Katz, Andrea Longueira, Ted Lowenfels, Mike Phillips, Tom Rome, Brian Schulz, Casey Warren

Outstanding STUDIO SHOW — WEEKLY

Inside the NBA on TNT — TNT

Executive Producer
Jeff Behnke

Coordinating Producers
Tim Kiely, Howard Zalkowitz

Producers
Chris Carmody, Scott Cockerill, Tom Heitz, Rodney Vaughn

Creative Producers
Craig Barry, Chad Watkins

Coordinating Director
Steve Fiorello

Directors
Lonnie Dale, Maceo Grant, Renardo Lowe

Associate Producers
Phil Barker, Bert Bondi, Shawn Gerchicoff, James Glenn, Tom Heitz, Alex Houvouras, Matt Kane, Craig Murray, Kyle Wells, Mike Winslow, Brian Woodrum

Associate Directors
Tara August, John Beckett, Darrell Bernardo, Bill Callen, Hal Gaalema, Dave Olshaske, Billy Proctor, Jeff Randolph, Joe Underhill

Outstanding STUDIO SHOW — DAILY

MLB Tonight — MLB Network

Executive Producers
John Entz, Tony Petitti

Coordinating Producers
Marc Caiafa, Bruce Cornblatt, Mitch Green, Michael Konner, Chris Mallory, Bryan Meyers, Dave Patterson, Michael Santini, Marc Weiner

Senior Producers
Ethan Kleinberg, Jed Tuminaro

Producers
Rich Ciancimino, Daniel Coldwell, Richard Isakow, Douglas Jaclin, Dan Komyati, Martin Montalto, Maleek Ndile, Christopher Roenbeck, Jim Thornby, AJ Whitfield

Editorial Director
Elliott Kalb

Coordinating Director
Mark Deaver

Segment Producers
Sanford Appell, Patrick Armstrong, John Barnes, Andrew Brenner, Mark Capalbo, Micah Karg, Premier Maldonado, Daniel Presser, Nate Purinton, Richard Savino, Nicholas Steger, Steve Tronzano, James Urban, Justin White

Directors
Lucas Altman, Richard Beczynski, Dave Hagen, Tom Healy, Michael Sheehan, Gregory Stern, Michael Torello

Highlight Producers
John Applegate, Michael Ardizzone, Andrew Batti, Martin Bauza, Steve Bichimer, Nick Buffum, Chase Butler, Josh Chaplin, Matthew Ciancimino, Jack Cognetta, Brian Collins, Michael DeJong, Mike Dempsey, Scott Dempsey, Ryan Dever, Cara Fitzsimmons, Rory Fugazy, Sean Gelman, Karl George, Michael Graham, Art Guglielmo, Bradley Harring, Mark Hennig, Abiel Hernandez, Jesse Hutchinson, Josh Jagosz, Eric Janssen, Elizabeth Jerry, Kevin Jingeleski, William Joel, Michael Kaplan, Christopher Kirk, Mark Kraus, Jordan Levinson, Kristin McCall, John McVey, Sean Merriam, Brandon Meyer, Justin Misano, David Mory, James Nolan, Nick Novielli, Mathew Parlapiano, Thanasis Petrakis, Mike Pielech, Ralph Ross, Lauren Ruderman, Chris Scalzo, Amelia Schimmel, Jack Schneider, Dave Scordato, Alex Shapiro, Matt Small, Michael Stricoff, Ian Theodoridis, Nolan Ticer, Bobby Yan

Associate Producers
Marc Adelberg, Ashley Allen, Dan Amsinger, Elsa Anzano, Chris Arnowich, Carmine Arpaia, Andrew Baumhor, Bryce Beloff, Michael Benjamin, Ron Bishow, Kelly Boring, Christopher Bracey, Daniel Bramlette, Eileen Bramswig, Anthony Brucale, Chris Burns, Derek Callahan, James Cole, Dan Coleman, Chris Collins, Andrew Cooper?Leary, William Cope, Keith Costas, Mike Dooley, Bryan Fennessey, Tony Ferraiolo, Matt Finkel, Natalie Finkelstein, Lorraine D. Fisher, Noel Fogelman, Anthony Ford, Ben Friedfeld, Tim Fryer, Arnold Fucci, Sean Gelman, Barry Gilbert, James Glynn, Ken Gold, Alan Goldstein, Annie Gottlieb, Mark Grillo, Noah Hatfield?Biondo, Daryl Hawkins, Adam Helfgott, Gina Hemphill, Jeff Heyman, David Hinrichs, Matt Jacobson, Michael Jankolovits, Anthony Jimenez, David Koplik, Marissa Lombardi, Thomas Loughran, Evan Lubell, Ann Madigan, Matt Marini, Moses Massena, Marc Matcham, David Matz, Jeremy McCarthy, Herlentz Mesidor, John O’Malley, Steven Rodriguez, Brian Sales, James Serratore, Ryan Smith, Michael Sober, Scott Sokol, Scott Spinelli, Kevin Stewart, Michael Treanor, Doug Weinstein, John Welch, Jonathon Wenk, Michael Wolan, Brian Yu, Wes Zientek

Operations Producers
Mary Beck, C.J. Bottitta, E. Tab Butler, Andy Butters, Brad Cheney, Patti Fallick, Brent Fisher, Mark Haden, Mark Henry, Robert McGlarry, Brian Perkins, Susan Stone, Karen Whritner

Associate Directors
Camp Childers, Nicholas Juliano, Keith Kielty, Michael Kim, Bruce Schein

Outstanding SPORTS JOURNALISM

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The College Bowl Game Money Trail — HBO

Executive Producer
Rick Bernstein

Coordinating Producer
Nick Dolin

Senior Producer
Kirby Bradley

Producer
Joe Perskie

Associate Producers
Stuart Ash, Nisreen Habbal, Brett Teal

Reporter
Bernard Goldberg

Outstanding SHORT FEATURE

(TIE)

E: 60: Together — ESPN2

Executive Producer
Andy Tennant

Director of News
Vince Doria

Coordinating Producers
Michael Baltierra, Robbyn Footlick

Senior Producers
Ben Houser, Martin Khodabakhshian

Producer
Beein Gim

Associate Producers
Paul Carruthers, Barry Dycus, Carl Heinemann, Michael Loftus, Brad Milsap, Warren Wolcott

Reporter
Tom Rinaldi

AND

Outside the Lines: Time Out Of Mind — ESPN

Executive Producer
Craig T. Lazarus

Director of News
Vince Doria

Senior Coordinating Producer
Victor Vitarelli

Coordinating Producers
Valerie Gordon, Tom McCollum

Producer
Miriam Greenfield

Associate Producers
Mike Bollacke, Josh Drake, Melissa Horton, Jason Sanchez, Jim Wedlake

Reporter
Tom Rinaldi

Outstanding LONG FEATURE

Outside the Lines: The Man Behind the Red Bandanna — ESPN

Director of News
Vince Doria

Senior Coordinating Producer
Victor Vitarelli

Coordinating Producer
Valerie Gordon

Senior Producer
Jose Morales

Producer
Drew Gallagher

Associate Producers
Glenn Banning, Mike Bollacke, Samson Chan, Gregg Hoerdemann, Tim Horgan, Chip Krell, Bobby Standridge

Reporter
Tom Rinaldi

Outstanding OPEN/TEASE

NBA on TNT: NBA Forever — TNT

Senior Producer
Craig Barry

Producer
Chad Watkins

Associate Producer
Mike Goldfarb

Editors
David Johnson, Eric Lund, Les Umberger, Chris Wolfe, Kobina Yankah

Outstanding NEW APPROACHES SPORTS EVENT COVERAGE

PGA Championship LIVE on PGA.com — PGA.com/Turner Sports

Executive Producers
Craig Barry, Jeff Behnke, Matt Hong, Jonathan Kropp, Gary Treater

Senior Producers
Chris Carmody, Matt Kane, Matt Mosteller, Michael Potts

Producers
Jeff Gray, Lynne Lampinski, Pete Scott, Julia Steiner

Director
Maceo Grant

Outstanding NEW APPROACHES SPORTS PROGRAMMING

A Game of Honor — CBSSports.com

Executive Producers
Harold Bryant, Jason Kint, Sean McManus

Coordinating Producers
Stephen Karasik, Peter Radovich, Jr.

Producers
Shelby Campbell, Lindsey Felling, Carrie Hubbard, Gareth Hughes, Mia Pecina

Associate Producers
Vincent Accardi, Matthew Alago, Anthony Cortese, Jeffrey Gerttula, Quenna Gregorio, Adam London, Christopher Mole, Patrick Moreau, Jim Nantz, Jeffrey Shook, Mark Young

Outstanding Sports Personality — STUDIO HOST

Bob Costas — NBC/MLB Network

Outstanding Sports Personality — PLAY-BY-PLAY

Joe Buck — FOX

Outstanding Sports Personality — STUDIO ANALYST

Charles Barkley — TNT/NBA TV

Outstanding Sports Personality — SPORTS EVENT ANALYST

Cris Collinsworth — NBC

Outstanding Sports Personality — SPORTS REPORTER

Michele Tafoya — NBC

Outstanding TECHNICAL TEAM REMOTE

(TIE)

MLB on FOX — FOX

AND

Winter X Games 15 — ESPN3D

Outstanding TECHNICAL TEAM STUDIO

MLB Tonight — MLB Network

Outstanding CAMERA WORK

The 2011 Ironman World Championship — NBC/Ironman Productions

Camerapersons
Jim Bowen, Chris Chanda, David Finch, Matthew Franklin, David Blue Garcia, Kevin Garrison, Michael Graber, Daryl Hackett, Peter R. Henning, Sean Kane, Craig Musberger, Scott Ogle, Greg Peterson, Robert Porter, Scott Simper, Terry Stewart, Robert Stookey, Nick Villani, Wilson Waggoner, Sam Winslade, Ken Woo

Outstanding EDITING

24/7 Pacquiao/Marquez — HBO

Editors
Christopher Mole, Fernando Villegas, Christian Winters

The Dick Schaap WRITING AWARD

24/7  Flyers/Rangers: Road to the NHL Winter Classic — HBO

Writer
Aaron Cohen

Outstanding MUSIC COMPOSITION/DIRECTION/LYRICS

Ed Sabol’s Last Football Movie: Men of Mettle — NFL Network/NFL Films

Composer
David Robidoux

Arrangers
Scott Anderson, Steve Moseley, Paul Taylor

Outstanding Live Event AUDIO/SOUND

MLB on FOX — FOX

Audio Engineers
Mike Aiello, Jeff Amos, Joe Berkbigler, Frank Biondo, Dave Bratspis, Greg Briggs, Doug Bullard, Greg Calvin, Joseph Carpenter, Greg Curry, Frederick M. Ferris, Pete Grenier, Maysum Haddad, John Hart, David Paul Heffelfinger, Erika Higbee, Clayton Hughes, Russell Johnson, Buck Jordan, Paul Kelly, Bruce Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Jason Knapp, Anthony Lomastro, Dan Lovell, Mike Madio, Mike Mays, Sam Napper, Ross Neel, Greg Pavis, Wes Pelland, Tom Phillips, Mike Pittam, Robert J. Qua, Jr., Roger Rashkow, Ron Riccezza, Jamie Ryan, Dan Schipper, Bill Schnack, Bill Sherry, Eric Steinberg, Tom Sullivan, Dan Toma, Jeff Totten, Chris Tveitbakk, Patrick Ward, Johnny Warner, Ben Warren, Dave Wolcott, John Zdon

Outstanding Post Produced AUDIO/SOUND

Sound FX: All Access — NFL Network/NFL Films

Senior Audio Engineer
Jerry Mahler

Audio Engineers
Vince Caputo, Scott Carter, Paul Flinton, Steve Guercio, Frank Hamilton, Mike Kennedy, Jesse LeGrazie, Terry Mader, Rich Markowitz, Shane McMartin, Steve Moseley, Willie O’Bryan, Geoff Pawlikowski, Paul Pizzica, Mark Ricci, Ryan Stridde, Gary Winger

Outstanding GRAPHIC DESIGN

Sport Science — ESPN/Base Productions

Graphic Designers
John Brenkus, Erick J. Geisler, Zachary Hollifield, Jason Mergott

Graphic Artists
Rhett Blankenship, Cesar Bravo, Fadry Drew Chandra, Rif Dagher, Shannon Daniell?Segilola, Satsuki Decker, John Dollins, Robert Geisler, Chris Knight, Sean A. Mathew, Mark Matta, Jeffrey Pate, Blayne Rabanal, Robert Joseph Rossi, Brian Rumrill, Chase Steffens, Christel L. Thompson

Outstanding PRODUCTION DESIGN/ART DIRECTION

NBC Sunday Night Football — NBC

Creative Directors
Fred Gaudelli, Rob Hyland, Sean Koriakin, Mark Levy, Greg Talmage, Charlie Vanacore

Senior Art Director
John Schleef

Art Directors
Samson Chan, Alex Fymat, John Tipton

Senior Production Designer
David Barton

Production Designers
Alp Altiner, Brett Blau, Ian Bonilla, Michael Briggs, Joanne Chiang DeHerrera, Adrian Davis, Israel DeHerrera, Carlos Flores, Sean Ginn, Andrew Harvey, Dave Hwang, Louis Katz, Ryan Kirkwood, Kevin Lim, Billy Maloney, Fred McGraw, Duy Nguyen, Sal Rangel, Robin Roepstorff, Tim Ryan, Richie Sandow, Matt Spencer, Renee Tymn, Luis Vega, Doug Zider, Joan Zierler

The George Wensel TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

America‘s Cup Highlight Show: Live Line — Versus

Innovators
Sam Flood, Denis Harvey, Tim Heidmann, Stan Honey, Gary Lovejoy, Jim McGuffin, Ken Milnes, Mark Sheffield, Alan Trimble, Richard Worth

Outstanding SPORTS PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT? INSTITUTIONAL

NBA on TNT: Shaq ‘Get Ready’ — TNT

Producers
Craig Barry, Chad Watkins

Associate Producers
Zeus Morand, Shaquille O’Neal

Outstanding SPORTS PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT ? EPISODIC

(TIE)

2011 Stanley Cup Final: No Words — NBC/Cosmo Street

Executive Producers
Bill Bergofin, Brian Jennings, John Miller

Senior Producers
Ryan Donovan, Casey Hall, Donny Khan, Brian Matthews

Producers
Steve Bell, Stacey Kay

Directors
Bruce Jacobson, Cliff Skeete

Associate Producers
Pat Bither, Joshua Dubin

Associate Directors
Evan Benedetto, Tripp Dixon, Jan Jaworski

AND

A Game of Honor — Showtime/CBS Sports

Executive Producers
Harold Bryant, Stephen Espinoza, Sean McManus

Producers
Derek Barbanti, Earl Fash, Stephen Karasik, Patrick Moreau

Director
Peter Radovich, Jr.

Associate Producers
Jesse Cook, Anthony Cortese, Carrie Hubbard, Mia Pecina, Chad Specter

Associate Directors
Shelby Campbell, Lindsey Felling, Gareth Hughes

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