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CBS’ Super Bowl Lviii and Disney+/ESPN+ animated Toy Story Funday Football were the top scorers with three wins each at the 45th annual Sports Emmy Awards, which were handed out tonight at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan.

Four other programs tied with two statuettes apiece at the ceremony hosted by The Kid Mero: NFL Networks’ perennial trophy hog NFL 360, Apple TV+’s Super League: The War for Football, Golf Channel’s Unredeemable and HBO’s now-wrapped Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

See the full list of winners recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences below.

Longtime NFL studio host James Brown received the Sports Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as “a significant influence and a consistent presence in sports broadcasting,” Sharp said. He has anchored pro football pregame shows including The NFL Today, NFL on Fox and Inside the NFL and has hosted the Super Bowl a record 12 times.

Exclusive: The Weather Channel and Bell Media’s Discovery Canada are set to ride the dangerous I-80/I-15 interstate ring highway.

Weather Channel has greenlit docu-series Rocky Mountain Wreckers, which will follow the harrowing adventures of four family-owned heavy wrecking businesses — Mountain Recovery, Stauffer’s Towing & Recovery, Reliable Towing and Big Al’s Towing — across Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Weather Channel has U.S. rights and will act as international distributor. Bell Media is the Canadian production partner and has taken rights for Discovery Canada. Production has begun, with the series set to deliver in fall 2024.

Thunderbird Entertainment’s Great Pacific Media is producing the show, marking its first majority U.S. commission. David Way, Todd Serotiuk, Millan Curry-Sharples and Michael Francis serve as executive producers for the Canadian unscripted producer.

The series is a familiar set-up, as Great Pacific already makes Weather Channel-Discovery Canada series Highway Thru Hell, which about a treacherous trucking route,...