Nominations for the 37th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced today by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
PBS leads the way with a total of 54 nominations, led by 18 for Frontline. CBS News follows with 37 nominations, including 26 for 60 Minutes, the most-nominated program. NBC News received 14 nominations, headlined by 6 for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and 5 for Dateline. ABC News scored 11 noms, 5 of which were for Nightline. Univision earned 7, including 2 for Aqui y Ahora.
Over on cable news, CNN received 13 News & Doc Emmys nominations, 4 of which were for Anderson Cooper 360. CNN en Español earned an additional 2 noms, giving CNN Worldwide a total of 15. The now-defunct Al Jazeera America garnered 10 noms, BBC World News earned 4, and MSNBC scored a nomination for All in With Chris Hayes – ‘Back to Baltimore’.
Fusion also received a single News and Documentary Emmy Award nomination for Prison Kids: A Crime Against America’s Children. The feature documentary, produced by the network’s investigative team, was nominated in the “Outstanding Informational Programming: Long Form” category.
The News & Documentary Emmys will be presented on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 at Lincoln Center in New York.
The chart below shows a numerical breakdown by media entity:
Over-the-Air, Cable, Satellite and Internet Broadcast Nominees
| PBS | 54 | CCTV America | 1 | |
| CBS | 37 | Direct TV Audience | 1 | |
| HBO | 19 | Discovery Channel | 1 | |
| NBC | 14 | ESPN | 1 | |
| CNN | 13 | Fusion | 1 | |
| ABC | 11 | Guardian US | 1 | |
| Al Jazeera America | 10 | Investigation Discovery | 1 | |
| The New York Times | 9 | The Intercept | 1 | |
| Univision | 7 | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | 1 | |
| Telemundo | 6 | MSNBC | 1 | |
| BBC World News | 4 | National Geographic Wild | 1 | |
| Smithsonian Channel | 3 | National Geographic/ Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | 1 | |
| Center for Investigative Reporting | 2 | National Geographic Magazine | 1 | |
| CNN en Español | 2 | Newsy | 1 | |
| National Geographic Channel | 2 | Online | 1 | |
| American Heroes Channel | 1 | Stanford Medicine Magazine | 1 | |
| BBC America | 1 | Showtime | 1 |