The 28th Sports Emmy Awards honoring American sports coverage in 2006 were presented on April 30, 2007 at Frederick P. Rose Hall in the

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. The nominees were announced on March 22.

Nominations

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Outstanding Live Sports Special The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Sports Special has been awarded since 1976. It is awarded to a network for their coverage of one specific sporting event in a calendar year, which means it should not be confused with the award for Outsta ...

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* NFL Wild Card Playoff: Pittsburgh vs. Indianapolis - CBS * 2006 Masters Tournament - CBS ; Outstanding Live Sports Series *''

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Monday Night Football ''ESPN Monday Night Football'' (abbreviated as ''MNF'' and also known as ''ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC'' for simulcasts) is an American live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games currently airing on ESPN, ...

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HBO Boxing ''HBO World Championship Boxing'' (in later years stylized in its title card as ''HBO Boxing – World Championship'') was an American sports television series on premium television network HBO. It premiered on January 22, 1973 with a fight that ...

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NASCAR on TNT ''NASCAR on TNT'' was the tagname for any NASCAR series race that had been broadcast on TNT by Turner Sports between 2001 and 2014. The network continued Turner's longstanding relationship with NASCAR that dated back to its initial association wi ...

''/'' NASCAR on NBC'' ; Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly *'' College Gameday'' *'' Inside the NFL'' *'' NBA Nation'' *'' Sunday NFL Countdown'' *''

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'' ; Outstanding Studio Show - Daily *'' Baseball Tonight'' *''

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Pardon the Interruption ''Pardon the Interruption'' (abbreviated ''PTI'') is an American sports talk television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stor ...

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Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host has been awarded since 1993. The award is given to an on-air personality that hosts a pregame or postgame show, or gives news during event coverage, but does not commentate on the ...

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* Ernie Johnson, Jr. *

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* Jim Lampley * Joe Buck * Rich Eisen ; Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play *

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* Joe Buck *

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* Jeff Hammond * Kirk Herbstreit ; Outstanding Sports Personality, Sports Event Analyst * Cris Collinsworth *

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Nominations
/ref> ;Outstanding Camera Work *Jeep World of Adventure Sports - NBC Camerapersons: Brett Lowell, Josh Lowell *Cinderella Man: The James J. Braddock Story - ESPN2 Red Line Films *ESPN Sunday Night Football - ESPN Teases *Timeless - ESPN 2 Red Line Films *X Games Eleven - ABC Surfing - ESPN Productions ;Outstanding Live Event Audio/Sound *ESPN Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN *Great Outdoor Games - ESPN *HBO World Championship Boxing - HBO *NASCAR on FOX - FOX ;Outstanding Sports Journalism *Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - HBO *Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - HBO *SportsCenter - ESPN ;Outstanding Open/Tease *Little League World Series - ABC *NFL on FOX: Super Bowl XXXIX - FOX *Winter Gravity Games - OLN *World Figure Skating Championships - ESPN ;Outstanding Sports Documentary *Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team - HBO *Mantle - HBO *Perfect Upset - HBO *Rhythm in the Rope - ESPN2 *You Write Better Than You Play: The Frank Deford Story - ESPN Classic ;

Sports Lifetime Achievement Award The Sports Lifetime Achievement Award is a special award given away each year at the Sports Emmy Awards. It was first given away in 1989. It is always announced days before the nominations are. List of recipients *1989: Jim McKay *1990: Lindsey N ...

Don Ohlmeyer Donald Winfred Ohlmeyer Jr. (February 3, 1945September 10, 2017) was an American television producer and president of the NBC network's west coast division. He received notoriety for firing Norm Macdonald from ''Saturday Night Live'' in early ...

References

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Sports Emmy Awards The Sports Emmy Awards, or Sports Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the Sports E ...