WBFF and WTTG lead in local Emmy nominations
WBFF and WTTG, the Fox TV affiliates in Baltimore and Washington, respectively, led all area stations in Capital Chesapeake Bay Region Emmy Award nominations announced this week. Each has 21 nominations.
WJLA-TV, Maryland Public Television and WUSA-TV follow the leaders with 14, 13 and 12 nominations, respectively. Comcast SportsNet has 10.
The winners will be announced June 6.
Richard Sher, the WJZ newsman who retired from the station this year, will be honored with a lifetime achievement Emmy at the awards dinner on June 6.
A footnote: I used the Capital Chesapeake Bay Region Emmy Award website as the final source for number of nominations. You can access its press release and tally here:
http://www.capitalemmys.tv/documents/2008EmmyNominationsFINAL.doc
If you include nominations for public service Emmys, WTTG and MPT would each have one more nomination -- 22 for Washington's Fox affiliate and 14 for MPT. But the Capital Region Emmy website excludes the public service nominations from its official tally.
