June 7, 2009
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Three Penn State Football video productions have been nominated for the first annual Global Media Award for College Sports, including the Sports Video of the Year.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the Sports Video Group (SVG) recently announced the nominees. The awards celebrate excellence across the entire spectrum of college sports video production, including work by colleges and universities, national and regional sports networks and technology innovators.
The winners, chosen by a panel of sports video production experts, will be named at a ceremony at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta on Tuesday, June 9. The Global Media Awards takes place on the first evening of the Inaugural College Sports Video Summit (June 9-10), an event dedicated to advancing the creation, production and distribution of college sports video content.
Penn State Football video productions are nominated in three categories:
- Outstanding Highlight Package (Getting it Done in Prime Time-Ohio State game Penn State Football Story)
- Outstanding Promotional Video (Cow Bell/Penn State Football Story)
- Sports Video of the Year (We Will and the Illinois game Penn State Football Story).
Penn State's entries will be competing against ESPN, CBS College Sports and numerous colleges and universities in the three categories.
Below is a listing of the all the nominees in the three categories where Penn State is represented.
Outstanding Highlight Package: Colleges, Conferences or Governing Bodies
Getting it Done in Prime Time, Penn State Football, The Pennsylvania State University
2008-2009 All-Sport Highlight Package, Baylor University
2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl Highlights, Mountaineer Sports Network, West Virginia University
SCSU Senior Night and Pregame Montage, UTVS, St. Cloud State University
Outstanding Promotional Video or Campaign: Colleges, Conferences or Governing Bodies
Cow Bell, Penn State Football, The Pennsylvania State University
2008-09 Season Ticket Campaign, Baylor University
Mountain West Conference 10-Year Anniversary Celebration, Mountain West Conference
Notre Dame Football Primer 2.0, Notre Dame Sports Properties, University of Notre Dame
ATT Text Campaign Interactive Races, The Ohio State University Athletic Department
It Begins Here, University of Miami, Fla.
Mosaic, University of Miami, Fla.
College Sports Video of the Year
'We Will' and the Illinois Game Story, Penn State Football, The Pennsylvania State University
NCAA March Madness Highlights on Demand Tournament Recap, CBS College Sports Network
Kay Yow - In Her Own Words, ESPN
Michael Crabtree's Winning Touchdown vs. Texas, ESPN
Ball State Sports Link: The Doug Coers Swimming and Diving Invitational, Ball State University
2008 - 2009 Men's Basketball Open, Baylor University
Big South 25th Anniversary 'Best of the Best' - Charleston Southern Football, Big South Conference
Rivalry: Ohio vs. Miami (OH), Ohio Athletics, Ohio University
It Begins Here, University of Miami, Fla.
Penn State's three nominees were submitted by Mind Over Media, producers of the Emmy-award winning The Penn State Football Story and Penn State Basketball Story. The Penn State Football Story and Penn State Basketball Story have won more than 25 regional Emmy Awards from the Mid-Atlantic, New York and Suncoast Chapters of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences through the years. The Penn State Football Story won the 2007-08 regional Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sports Program Series" from the New York Chapter of the NATAS.
Critically acclaimed, The Penn State Football Story captures the closeness between players, coaches and staff that is vital in Penn State maintaining its position as one of the nation's premier football programs. The program airs every week during the Nittany Lions' football season throughout Pennsylvania and regional sports cable networks and channels across the nation, including YES Network in New York City.
Mike Messner is the producer and director of The Penn State Football Story and Penn State Basketball Story, which offers an inside look at the Nittany Lion basketball program. Michael Weber is a producer/director and Guy Junker is the writer and narrator for both programs, which are produced in cooperation with Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics.