Do you want to bring us news? Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black, hosts of CNN’s “Have I Got News For You,” have been tapped to host next month’s Sports, News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony, which will be held separately on separate nights.
Wood will host the 47th Sports Emmy Awards on Tuesday, May 26th, followed by Ruffin as host of the news segment at the 47th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday, May 27th. After all, Black will be hosting the documentary category at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Thursday, May 28th.
All three events will be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Tuesday announced the organizers and this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients for all three ceremonies.
Former ESPN president and CEO and former NFL Network president and CEO Steve Bornstein will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sports Emmy Awards. The News Emmy Awards will honor Martha Raddatz, ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of “This Week.” And at the Documentary Emmy Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Sam Pollard, film/television editor and documentary producer/director (“For Little Girls,” “When the Levees Broke”).
At ESPN, Mr. Bornstein launched ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, ESPN Radio and ESPN.com. He also worked for the ESPYs and X-Games before moving to the NFL. He currently serves as president of Genius Sports’ North American division. Raddatz has covered the State Department, the White House, and international wars, moderated two election debates, and is the author of The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose and The Long Road Home – A Story of War and Family. Pollard received an Oscar nomination for “For Little Girls” and won a Peabody Award and three Emmy Awards for “When the Levees Broke.” Most recently, he was the EP for Netflix’s Katrina: Come Hell and High Water and the Oscar-nominated EP The Perfect Neighbor.
Wood is the host of CNN’s “Have I Got News For You,” which is based on the long-running British series. The American version premiered on CNN in September 2024, with season 4 starting in January. Ruffin and Black are team captains for the show, which airs Saturdays at 9pm ET on CNN and streams the following day on CNN.com, the CNN app and HBO Max.
Alex Rodriguez, Tom Brady, Jason Kelce, Richard Sherman, JJ Watt and Charles Barkley are among the on-screen sports talents nominated for the 47th Sports Emmy Awards. The complete list of nominees was led by ESPN, which received 62 nominations (bolstered by programs including “E60”). You can view it here.
National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate News & Documentary Emmy nominations, earning 25 nominations this year, followed by PBS’s “Frontline” series with 19 nominations. Nat Geo led the pack with 51 responses. See the complete list here.
