Spectrum News, SportsNet, & SportsNet LA Nominated for Emmys

Press release from Spectrum News:

June 11 2020

Los Angeles, CA – The Television Academy announced the nominations for the 72nd Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards and Spectrum News 1 (12), Spectrum SportsNet LA (5) and Spectrum SportsNet (4) were awarded a combined total of 21 Los Angeles Emmy® Awards nominations.

In its first full year of eligibility for the Emmys, Spectrum News 1 more than tripled the number of nominations from last year with 12 Emmy® nominations. Launched in November 2018, Spectrum News 1 earned three Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards nominations last year. Giselle Fernandez presented at the awards ceremony and her primetime show, “LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez,” earned the first Emmy® for Spectrum News 1.

The Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards honor locally produced programs in the categories of Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, Arts, Human Interest, Sports, Environment, and Live and Breaking News Coverage.

Spectrum News 1 received 12 Emmy® nominations in the categories of Culture/History, Informational Series (Remote), Information Series (In-studio), Live Special Events, Information Segment, Business/ Consumer News Story, Environment News Story and Sports News Story.

Spectrum SportsNet LA received five Emmy® nominations in the categories of Sports Series – Programming (Post-Produced), Sports Series – Programming (Live Broadcast), Sports Feature, Sports Tease and Short Promo – Sports. Spectrum SportsNet received four Emmy® nominations in the categories of Sports Special, Sports Series – Programming (Post-Produced), Sports Series – Programming (Live Broadcast) and Sports Feature.

Spectrum Networks Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards Nominations are as follows:

Spectrum News 1

• Culture/History: “Vision 2030: Future of SoCal”
• Informational Series (more than 50% remote):
  • “LA Stories with Giselle Fernandez”
  • “The SoCal Scene”
• Information Series (more than 50% studio): “LA Times Today”
• Live Special Events – News: “LA Under the Gun”
• Information Segment:
  • “Brenda Tracy, Rape Survivor” (LA Times Today) - Lisa McRee, Jade Hernandez, Alejandro Tamayo, Luis Cruz, Lara Hochuli and David Wharton
  • “Platform Holly” (LA Times Today) - Thomas Curwen, Robert St. John, Karen Lopez, Katie Falkenberg and Lara Hochuli
  • “The Street Within” (LA Times Today) - Thomas Curwen, Karen Lopez, Robert Meeks, Francine Orr, Yadira Flores and Patrick Steward
  • “Women of Apollo” (LA Times Today) - Robert Meeks, Karen Lopez, Jessica Chen and Adam VanDeKerchove
• Business/Consumer News Story: “Something's Fishy: What's on your plate?” (The Beat on 1 Morning News) - Angela Sun, Mac Sherwood and Luca DeSando-Grassi
• Environment News Story: “Styrofoam Eating Superworms: Creating Zero Waste Surfboards” (Your Morning on Spectrum News 1) - Angela Sun
• Sports News Story: “Clipper Darrell” (The Beat on 1 Morning News)

Spectrum SportsNet LA

• Sports Series – Programming (Post-Produced): “Backstage: Dodgers”
• Sports Series – Programming (Live Broadcast): “Access SportsNet Dodgers”
• Sports Feature: “Legends of Dodger Baseball: Fernando Valenzuela” (Dodgers Dugout) - Erick Cesar Vazquez, Gregory Vincent Taylor, Vin Scully, Jaime Jarrin, Aaron Minderhout, Nicholas Gresham, Mario E. Toledo and Kevin Cook
• Sports Tease: “Dodgers-Yankees Tease” - Mike Levy and Reshad Bahadori
• Short Promo – Sports: “Loyalty” - Pete Carril, Andrew Cleary and Mark Schaefer

Spectrum SportsNet

• Sports Special: “Birth of a Dynasty: The 1999-2000 Lakers”
• Sports Series – Programming (Post-Produced): “Backstage: Lakers”
• Sports Series – Programming (Live Broadcast): “Access SportsNet Lakers”
• Sports Feature: “Coby’s Journey” (Backstage Lakers) - Jesse Aron and Mark Phillips

The 72nd Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards will be presented virtually on Saturday, July 18, at 7 p.m. on Emmys.com.

This press release was produced by Spectrum News. The views expressed here are the author’s own.