ESPN came up with false names for Emmy Awards in order to reward talents who were not eligible for the award and ‘National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS), which oversees the Emmy Awards, discovered them, sports media reported. Athletic.
According to the study, ESPN returned 37 statuettes to NATAS.
NATAS found that since 2010 ESPN used fictitious names in Emmy nominations, then took the awards won by those fictitious individuals, re-recorded them, and gave them to participants in his live shows, most of which were part of College GameDay.
Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard, Samantha Ponder, among other things, won a modified Emmy Award. According to the source Athleticwho has been granted anonymity, nor is there evidence that people who received statues realized that the prizes awarded to them were obtained illegally.
Athletic looked at the lists of writers for the years in which “College GameDay” won an Emmy and found in each of the seven years (2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) names similar to those of the TV hosts, with identical initials. and who were incorrectly identified as associate producers of the program.
Fake names include “Kirk Henry” by Kirk Herbstreit; “Lee Clark” Lee Corso; “Dirk Howard” by Desmond Howard; “Tim Richard” by Tom Rinaldi; and “Steve Ponder” by Sam Ponder.
This is a statement ESPN He admitted guilt and said:
Some members of our team were clearly wrong to submit certain names to the Emmy category that may have dated back to 1997, where they were not eligible for recognition or statuettes. This was a misguided attempt to recognize people on air who were important members of our production team. As soon as current management became aware of this, we apologized to NATAS for the breach and worked closely with them to completely review our registration process to ensure something similar did not happen again.
A NATAS spokesman confirmed this.
When ESPN management was informed, the network took steps to take responsibility for the actions of its employees, conduct a full investigation and correct course.
NATAS rules state that presenters, analysts and reporters can receive individual awards or take home an award for specific content. However, such employees are not eligible to receive an Emmy Award in a category that recognizes the program as a whole. The rule was established to prevent talent from winning two awards for the same production.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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