FOX Sports Scores Five Sports Emmy Awards
MLB on FOX’s Presentation of 114th World Series Earns Outstanding Live Sports Special
LOS ANGELES – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented its 40th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on Monday evening in New York, and FOX Sports took top honors in five different categories.
Receiving 25 nominations across FOX Sports’ networks, the collection of wins included those for coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the 114th World Series, on-air personalities, and audio production.
Once again, NASCAR on FOX was honored with the Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound Sports Emmy – a category FOX Sports has won every year since 2006, and 17 of the last 18 years. NASCAR RACE HUB was also honored for Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound.
In college basketball, Bill Raftery was named Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Event Analyst for the third time in the last four years, and for the second time in three years, FOX Sports took home the Outstanding Live Sports Special Emmy for its coverage of the World Series. FOX Sports’ cross-platform coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup earned a Sports Emmy in the Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage category.
The complete list can be found below.
FOX Sports’ 2019 Sports Emmy Awards
Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound: NASCAR on FOX (FOX/FS1)
Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage: 2018 FIFA World Cup on FOX (FOX/FS1/FOXSports.com)
Outstanding Post-Produced Audio/Sound: NASCAR RACE HUB, Feeling Speed (FS1)
Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Event Analyst: Bill Raftery (tbs/CBS/TNT/truTV/FS1)
Outstanding Live Sports Special: 114th World Series Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (FOX)
About FOX Sports
FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing Fox Corporation’s wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, the business has ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, joint-venture businesses and several licensing relationships. FOX Sports includes the sports arm of the FOX Network as well as FS1, FS2, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Deportes. FOX Sports’ digital properties include FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports App, which provides live streaming video of FOX Sports content, instant scores, stats and alerts to iOS and Android devices. Additionally, FOX Sports and social broadcasting platform, Caffeine, jointly own Caffeine Studios which creates exclusive eSports, sports and live entertainment content. Also included in FOX Sports’ portfolio are FOX’s interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network and BTN 2Go, as well as a licensing agreement that established the FOX Sports Radio Network.
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