I’m not into sportsball, or the Emmys for that matter, so this has me very confused. Isn’t this a scandal for the Emmys as much as it is for ESPN? If you’re giving awards to people that don’t even exist, you clearly aren’t doing any due diligence to see if they deserve the award. And did the people getting these reengraved awards know that they didn’t actually win? They weren’t suspicious that there wasn’t some official announcement from the Emmys? The Emmys wasn’t weirded out by people that didn’t win announcing that they did and showing off their trophy? How is any of this a thing?
I’m not clear on why on-air talent for a show wouldn’t be eligible to be credited if the show won an Emmy.
Basically an executive at ESPN wanted the on air talent to get statuettes too, so he submitted fake names, had them re-engraved and gave them to them to the on air people.
Not much of a scandal.
Yeah, if anything this reflects more poorly on the Emmys than on ESPN. ESPN was being good to the employees that contributed to its successes.