The Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 for Outstanding Host or Commentator was awarded from 1968 to 1992. It was awarded to a sports broadcaster who was best at hosting an event from a studio or commentating on an event as it was taking place. In 1981, the category's name was given a slight change to Outstanding Host or Play-by-Play. That change is reflected in this article.

Awards like these are now given away at the Sports Emmy Awards

Sports Emmy Awards

The Sports Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American sports television programming, including sports-related series, live coverage of sporting events, and best sports announcers...

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Outstanding Host or Play-by-Play

• 1992 Bob Costas
  Bob Costas
  Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.-Early life:...
  
   (NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
  )
• 1991 Bob Costas (NBC)
• 1990 Dick Enberg
  Dick Enberg
  Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on 4SD, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...
  
   (NBC)
• 1989 Al Michaels
  Al Michaels
  Alan Richard "Al" Michaels is an American television sportscaster. Now employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent members of his profession...
  
   (ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
  )
• 1988 Bob Costas (NBC)
• 1987-88 Bob Costas (NBC)
• 1986-87 Al Michaels (ABC)
• 1985-86 no award was given
• 1984-85 George Michael
  George Michael (sportscaster)
  George Michael was an American sportscaster best known nationally for The George Michael Sports Machine, his long-running sports highlights television program. Originally named George Michael's Sports Final when it began as a local show in Washington, D.C...
  
   (NBC)
• 1983-84 no award was given
• 1982-83 Dick Enberg (NBC)
• 1981-82 Jim McKay
  Jim McKay
  James Kenneth McManus , better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist....
  
   (ABC)
• 1980-81 Dick Enberg (NBC)

Outstanding Host or Commentator

• 1979-80 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1978-79 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1977-78 Jack Whitaker (CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  )
• 1976-77 Frank Gifford
  Frank Gifford
  Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford is a Hall of Fame former American football player and American sportscaster.-Early life:Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Lola Mae and Weldon Gifford, an oil driller....
  
   (ABC)
• 1975-76 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1974-75 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1973-74 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1972-73 Jim McKay (ABC)
• 1971-72 no award was given
• 1970-71 a tie between Jim McKay and Don Meredith
  Don Meredith
  Joseph Don "Dandy Don" Meredith was an American football quarterback, sports commentator and actor. He spent all nine seasons of his professional playing career with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League . He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last three years as a player...
  
  (both of ABC)
• 1969-70 no award was given
• 1968-69 no award was given
• 1967-68 Jim McKay (ABC)