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The Super Bowl, “Monday Night Football,” “Inside the NBA Playoffs,” the NFL draft and “Real Sports With Bryant Gumball” were among the winners at the 45th Sports Emmy Awards. The ceremony was hosted by The Kid Mero at Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City on Tuesday night.

Read on for the complete list of winners from the 2024 Sports Emmy Awards.

Outstanding Live Special

Super Bowl Lviii

Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers

CBS

Outstanding Live Series

Monday Night Football with Peyton & Eli

ESPN2

[Omaha Productions]

Outstanding Playoff Coverage

American League Championship Series

Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers

Fox | FS1

Outstanding Edited Event Coverage

NFL Game Day All Access

Super Bowl Lviii

YouTube

[NFL Films]

Outstanding Edited Special

You Are Looking Live!

CBS

[NFL Films]

Outstanding Hosted Edited Series

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

HBO | Max

Outstanding Esports Championship Coverage

League of Legends Worlds 2023 Final

T1 vs. Weibo Gaming

LoLEsports.com | Twitch...

Telemundo will become the exclusive Spanish-language home to U.S. national soccer team matches, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises and the U.S. Soccer Federation announced Tuesday in a multimedia rights agreement.

On the heels of a record-breaking presentation of the World Cup Qatar 2022, Telemundo will now feature all U.S. soccer men and women’s national team friendlies and other high-profile matches, all of which will be available to stream on Peacock. The deal also transfers exclusive rights to live event coverage and the opportunity to create ancillary programming to Telemundo.

With Telemundo holding the broadcast rights to the FIFA World Cups for men and women as well the Olympic Games, the deal will include coverage of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is slated to be co-hosted between Canada, Mexico and the United States.

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Netflix has greenlit two new docuseries, one filmed at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar 2022, and an inside look at international rugby tournament Six Nations, the streamer announced on Thursday.

The as-yet-untitled World Cup series from Netflix and FIFA+ will feature exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage of all 32 teams from the tournament. The series, which is produced by Fulwell 73, is a companion to “Captains,” which followed players as they qualified for the 2022 World Cup. It will stream globally on Netflix.

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“Six Nations” will film at the rugby tourney in February as France, England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales battle it out for the trophy. The series, from the makers of “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” promises to “give fans an insight into every pulsating moment behind the scenes.”

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Telemundo’s FIFA World Cup finale coverage of the Argentina vs. France game on Sunday averaged a total audience of 9 million viewers, up 65 from the Russia-held event in 2018 that saw a showdown between France and Croatia.

Overall, the game — which has since been dubbed as one of the greatest of all time — also ranks as the most-streamed FIFA World Cup match in U.S. media history, regardless of language with an Average Minute Audience (Ama) of 2.96 million viewers, per the network. On streaming, the finale delivered 2,156 more viewers — 23 times more than the 2018 final. The program also ranks as the second most-watched title in a single day in Peacock history, behind only this year’s Super Bowl Lvi.

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As the Spanish-language network wrapped up its exclusive coverage of the month-long sporting event, it saw...

Tenemos los ganadores in Spanish-language programming for this year’s Daytime, Sports and News and Documentary Emmy Awards. CNN en Español led all networks with three statuettes tonight, including marquee wins for Outstanding Entertainment Show in Spanish (Destinos) and Morning Show in Spanish (Café CNN).

Read the full list of winners here.

Rivals Telemundo and Univision were the night’s only other multiple winners, with two apiece, and Amazon PRime Video, CNN, ESPN Deeeportes and Golf Channel scooped one each. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed the winners tonight during a virtual ceremony hosted by Lili Estefan of Univision’s El Gordo y la Flaca.

Said NATAS President and CEO Adam Sharp: “As we continue to rise to the challenge of presenting our Emmy Award ceremonies during Covid-19 with hosts, presenters and acceptors all coming from their homes via the ‘virtual technology’ of the day, we continue...