Paris 2024 Olympics Top 46th Sports Emmy Awards With 10 Wins; NBC and ESPN Lead All Networks With 13 Apiece By Jason Dachman, Editorial Director, U.S. Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 3:02 pm
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NBC's coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics proved to be the big winner of the night at the 46th annual Sports Emmy Awards last night, taking home 10 statues as part of a company-record 13-Emmy haul by NBCUniversal. ESPN tied NBCU for the most awards of the night with 13, followed by Fox Sports with seven, Netflix with four, and TNT Sports and NFL Films with three each, respectively. CBS, MLB, and UFC each earned two Emmys apiece.
Host Roy Wood Jr. (right) and presenter Keenan Thompson on stage at the 46th Annual Sports Emmy Awards Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City on May 20, 2025. (credit NATAS)
NBCUniversal's 10 wins for its coverage of the XXXIII Olympic Games from Paris were headlined by the honor for Outstanding Live Special-Championship Event. Other big awards on the night included Fox's Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues winning Outstanding Live Special - Non-Championship Event; ABC/ESPN 's SEC on ABC winning for Outstanding Live Series, and NBC/Peacock's NFL Playoffs winning for Outstanding Playoff Coverage.
In terms of Technical Awards, NBCUniversal's Paris 2024 coverage took home both the Outstanding Technical Team Event and Outstanding Technical Team Studio statues, as well as the award for Outstanding Audio/Sound - Live Event. In addition, the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award went to the PGA TOUR's Live Drone AR, which is a TOUR owned patent-pending technology that was developed through a collaborative effort between six partners-the PGA TOUR, Bolt6, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Virtual Eye, and Kaze Aerial Production. The innovation came together in early 2024 with a shared vision to successfully track ball-in-motion data from a live moving drone on the PGA TOUR.
ESPN took home the awards for both the Weekly and Daily Outstanding Studio Show categories, winning for ESPN College Game Day and NFL Live, respectively. Meanwhile, the award for Outstanding Studio Show - Limited Run went to Fox MLB: The Postseason, while Univision/TUDN's F tbol Central won for Outstanding Studio Show in Spanish.
In addition, Fox Sports architect David Hill was given the Lifetime Achievement Honor, which was presented to him by FOX NFL Sunday hosts Michael Strahan, Terry Bradshaw, Curt Menefee, Jimmy Johnson, Howie Long and Jay Glazer.
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Outstanding Live Special - Championship Event Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Live Special - Non-Championship Event Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues (Fox)
Outstanding Live Series SEC on ABC (ABC | ESPN )
Outstanding Playoff Coverage NFL Playoffs (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Edited Event Coverage NFL Draft: The Pick is In (The Roku Channel [NFL Films, Skydance Sports] )
Outstanding Edited Special SportsCenter SC Special: The Harbaugh Brothers (ESPN)
Outstanding Hosted Edited Series E60 (ESPN)
Outstanding Esports Championship Coverage Valorant Champions 2024 Grand Final : Edward Gaming vs Team Heretics (Valorant Esports [Riot Games])
Outstanding Short Documentary The Turnaround (Netflix [Major League Baseball, Netflix, A Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios Production, Higher Ground, Breakwater Studios])
Outstanding Long Documentary Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (Netflix [SK Global Entertainment, OBB Productions, MakeMake Entertainment, Avocados and Coconuts] )
Outstanding Documentary Series The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox (Netflix [Netflix, Meadowlark Media, MLB Studios])
Outstanding Documentary Series - Serialized Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Netflix [Box to Box Films])
Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly College GameDay (ESPN)
Outstanding Studio Show - Daily NFL Live (ESPN | ESPN2)
Outstanding Studio Show - Limited Run Fox MLB: The Postseason (Fox | FS1)
Outstanding Journalism The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses (FX | Hulu [Left/Right, The New York Times])
Outstanding Short Feature Caeleb & The Critic: Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Long Feature SC Featured: The 6-Year Plan: SportsCenter (ESPN)
Outstanding Open/Tease Land of Stories: Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Interactive Experience Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Digital Innovation Fox Sports | COSM (Fox | Fox Sports Digital)
Outstanding Personality/Studio Host Ernie Johnson (TNT | TBS)
Outstanding Personality/Play-by-Play Joe Davis (Fox | FS1)
Outstanding Personality/Studio Analyst Charles Barkley (TNT | TBS)
Outstanding Personality/Event Analyst Peyton Manning (ESPN2)
Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter Tracy Wolfson (CBS | TNT)
Outstanding Personality/Emerging On-Air Talent Nick Saban (ESPN)
Outstanding Technical Team Event Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Technical Team Studio Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Camera Work - Short Form Shots of the Year: NFL Films Presents (FS1 [NFL Films] )
Outstanding Camera Work - Long Form Anytime (Red Bull TV [Red Bull Media House, Anthill Films])
Outstanding Editing - Short Form Land of Stories: Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC | Peacock)
Outstanding Editing - Long Form Rhythm Masters: A Mickey Hart Experience (ESPN | ESPN [ESPN Films, Bluefoot Entertainment, Fresh Features] )
The Dick Schaap Writing Award - Short Form Land of Stories : Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
Outstanding Writing - Long Form In Season with the AFC North: Hard Knocks (HBO | Max [NFL Films] )
Outstanding Music
