{"id":810122,"date":"2016-09-23T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c8f.efa.myftpupload.com\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:30:34","slug":"root-sports-pittsburgh-nominated-for-13-emmys-for-pittsburgh-pirates-and-pittsburgh-penguins-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/root-sports-pittsburgh-nominated-for-13-emmys-for-pittsburgh-pirates-and-pittsburgh-penguins-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Sports Pittsburgh Nominated for 13 Emmys for Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Penguins Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
The producers, directors, crew, engineers, camera people, designers, hosts and everyone else involved will set about the monumental task they have done 141 times already this season \u2013 bring the Pirates pre-game, post-game and the game itself to over 3.2 million houses in five states.<\/p>\n
It will be like any other work day for them, except for the fact that it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Across the state Saturday evening, in Philadelphia, another event will be taking place – The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Mid-Atlantic Chapter Awards – better known as the Regional Emmys. And the same group of talented people bringing viewers Pittsburgh Pirates baseball every night on Root Sports, are nominated for several awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Emmy is the highest award for our business, and just to be nominated for an Emmy is a great honor,\u201d said Douglas Johnson, VP\/Executive Producer at Root Sports Pittsburgh. \u201cIt\u2019s something every single person can be very proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 13 nominations garnered by Root Sports Pittsburgh for Pirates and Penguins coverage, a Root Sports record, are especially meaningful given the nature of the competition within Mid-Atlantic region, he said.<\/p>\n