You'd never know from the way I dragged my feet on this, but I actually did attend the event at which the Mid-America Emmy nominations were announced last Thursday here in Kansas City. My colleague across the state, Gail Pennington, knocked out a story right away, so I hope that's not an ominous sign when the crosstown stations duel once more for top honors at the ceremony Oct. 4, to be emceed by CBS anchor Russ Mitchell (who actually worked in both the KC and St. Louis markets).
Metro Sports (18 nominations) led all Kansas City entrants. Interestingly, almost every Emmy nomination was for a different program, a testimony to the volume and quality of production at Time Warner Cable's all-local-sports channel. Of course, Metro Sports also supplies sports coverage to KCTV-5, and I assume it earns at least a hat tip from that station for two of its Emmy nominations as well.
WDAF (12) led all broadcast stations, which is amazing when you consider it never even used to enter the Regional Emmys. It was nominated in feature news, consumer news, sports special, public affairs, news excellence, editor, talent (John Holt), weather, photographer, and three "advanced media" nominations (including two for its weather DVD).
KSHB (11) and KMCI (1) were nominated for best newscast, best report within 24 hours, consumer, religion, weather (2), promos (3), news excellence, and photography.
KCTV (11) stayed true to the station's profile: three of the four finalists in investigative, five nominations in various categories for promotions, plus two live sportcasts and a graphics compilation.
KMBC (9) probably had the most well-rounded bunch of nominations: newscast, 24 hours, But KMBC was also nominated in breaking news, spot news, feature news, specialty news, promo, news excellence and talent (Kris Ketz).
KCPT (3) was a finalist in specialty show, interview show ("Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper," NOT "Week in Review with Nick Haines"), and a PSA.
And last but not least, Josh Fry of Fry Flux Media of Kansas City was honored with a PSA nomination for this:
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