The 2017 News and Documentary Emmy nominations are out, and PBS has racked up the most selections, with 48, including 12 for Frontline.
CBS News was next with 43, including 30 nominations for 60 Minutes which begins its 50th season on Sept. 24. Scott Pelley‘s story on the White Helmets, civilians who search through rubble for survivors in war-torn Syria, is the most-nominated single story with four, including Best Story in a Newsmagazine, Outstanding Writing, and Outstanding Editing. (A film documentary on the White Helmets won the Best Short Subject Oscar earlier this year.)
ABC News has 19 nominations, followed by HBO with 18. That includes 6 nominations for HBO’s Vice News Tonight, which only debuted last October.
The CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News are each nominated in the Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking Story in a Newscast for their coverage of the Pulse nightclub massacre. ABC’s World News Tonight and Nightline are also nominated for coverage from Orlando in the Outstanding Continuing Coverage category. Overall Nightly News is up for 4 awards, Evening News and World News Tonight are each up for 2.
CNN is up for 16 awards including Anderson Cooper‘s Breaking News Coverage from Orlando and the network’s Breaking News Coverage on the Battle for Mosul.
PBS took home the most awards last year with 14, followed by CBS News with seven, ABC News and CNN with four.
The 2017 Emmys will be presented Thursday, October 5 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.
Here’s the full list of nominees.