HBO Home To Seven Sports Emmy Awards

HBO Sports won seven Sports Emmy Awards including Outstanding Sports Documentary for Lombardi, Outstanding Sports Journalism for Real Sports, three for Hard Knocks on the New York Jets and one for Outstanding Edited Sports Special for 24/7: Penguins-Capitals. Some good stuff for HBO which continues to get awards for its long-form programming.

HBO SPORTS® TAKES HOME SEVEN SPORTS EMMY AWARDS

Winners were revealed Monday night at the 32nd Annual Sports Emmy® Awards in New York City.

HBO garnered seven Sports Emmys, tying the network for first place with NBC.

HBO                            7
NBC                            7
CBS                            6
ESPN                         5
ABC                            3
FOX                            3
MLB Network           2
ESPN2                       2

HBO collected seven Sports Emmy Awards which includes:

OUTSTANDING SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
LOMBARDI

OUTSTANDING SPORTS JOURNALISM
REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL – The Missing Link (Bernard Goldberg)

OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SERIES/ANTHOLOGY
HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE NEW YORK JETS

OUTSTANDING CAMERA WORK
HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE NEW YORK JETS

OUTSTANDING POST PRODUCED AUDIO/SOUND
HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP WITH THE NEW YORK JETS

OUTSTANDING EDITED SPORTS SPECIAL
24/7 PENGUINS/CAPITALS: ROAD TO THE NHL WINTER CLASSIC

OUTSTANDING EDITING
24/7 JIMMIE JOHNSON: RACE TO DAYTONA

CBS Sports’ press release is next.

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