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ESPN returns 37 Emmys, disciplines employees after a decades-long scheme is unearthed (www.yahoo.com)

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I'm not into sportsball, or the Emmys for that matter, so this has me very confused. Isn't this a scandal for the Emmys as much as it is for ESPN? If you're giving awards to people that don't even exist, you clearly aren't doing any due diligence to see if they deserve the award. And did the people getting these reengraved awards know that they didn't actually win? They weren't suspicious that there wasn't some official announcement from the Emmys? The Emmys wasn't weirded out by people that didn't win announcing that they did and showing off their trophy? How is any of this a thing?

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For anyone confused about the scheme, it seems fairly benign:

“College GameDay,” a cultural phenomenon and money maker for the network, scored eight Emmys for best weekly studio show from 2008 to 2018. The broadcast personalities were, until 2023, prohibited by NATAS guidelines from inclusion in a credit list for that specific category. They were eligible for other Emmys, such as host or studio analyst, but a win for the show wouldn't land any statuettes for on-air talent.

ESPN employees dodged the rule by including fabricated names listed as "associate producers" — who happened to have the same initials as on-air talent — and then scrubbing the statuettes of the fake names, per the Athletic. After having the talents' real names engraved on the trophies, the people involved gave them to ESPN's on-camera stars, who told the Athletic they had not known anything was sketchy.

The On-Air personalities were an important part of the show but were not going to get a trophy if the show won. Adding fake associate producers to the credits got an extra trophy to share with the people who contributed to their success.

Nobody cheated at the awards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why were they being excluded?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

From the quote it sounds like this award was being designated to the show runners. There were other emmys for hosting/etc. that the hosts could have won.

I think it's fair for the emmys to designate who is eligible for the award, but I understand why ESPN would also want to recognize the hosts. Personally I think all these awards are mostly made up anyways, but I would say ESPN is more in the wrong as the emmys were specifically saying the hosts weren't doing anything worthy of an Emmy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Looks like they're just returning trophies not awards, so I'm guessing anytime a show wins an award everyone who happens to be on the show's crew at that time gets a trophy for it, and since there's a bit of turnover on those crews they probably just get a list of names from the studio and send out as many trophies as they get told they need, so it would probably be pretty easy to slip in a fake name or three and get some unique birthday gifts for people

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not clear on why on-air talent for a show wouldn't be eligible to be credited if the show won an Emmy.

Basically an executive at ESPN wanted the on air talent to get statuettes too, so he submitted fake names, had them re-engraved and gave them to them to the on air people.

Not much of a scandal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if anything this reflects more poorly on the Emmys than on ESPN. ESPN was being good to the employees that contributed to its successes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TIL There’s an Emmy’s category for ESPN shows.

[–] SheeEttin 1 points 10 months ago

There are 123 different categories for an Emmy.