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HISTORY

The first Emmy for "Best Sports Coverage" was handed out at the Second Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Ceremony in 1950, where KTLA , a local television station in Los Angeles , won the award for coverage of Pro Wrestling . The Following Year , another Los Angeles-based station, KNBH , won an Emmy for their coverage of the Los Angeles Rams American Football team. At the Seventh Primetime Emmys in 1955, NBC became the first major network to win a Sports Emmy Award for its series, the '' Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports ''.

In 1979, an Emmys exclusively for sports coverage was held for the first time at the Rainbow Room in New York City. Winners included golf announcer Jack Whitaker , and CBS 's '' The NFL Today ''. The ninth annual Sports Emmy Awards, hosted by actors Alan Thicke and Joan Van Ark and held on July 13 1988 , became the first Sports Emmys ceremony to be televised; the live telecast was syndicated nationwide by Raycom Sports . Dennis Miller hosted in the 12th Sports Emmys in 1991, which was broadcast on ESPN .


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At that inaugural ceremony in 1979, there were 12 categories. At the 2007 ceremony, there will be 30:


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