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Sports Emmys Nominees For Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter
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The Sports Emmys nominees are out, and there are six sideline reporters nominated for the Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter award.
Sports Emmys Nominees For Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter
Six sideline reporters have been nominated for the Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter award.
#SportsEmmys Nominees for Personality/Sideline Reporter:
– @JennyDell_ (@cbssports)
– @KayleeHartung (@primevideo @NBCSports)
– Tom Rinaldi (@foxsports @FS1)
– Holly Rowe @sportsiren (@espn @ESPNPlus @abcnetwork)
– Lisa Salters @saltersl
– @tracywolfson (@cbssports @TNTSportsUS) pic.twitter.com/7SN1SUrAPt— The Emmys (@TheEmmys) April 8, 2025
Jenny Dell, (CBS)
Jenny Dell is CBS Sports’ lead college football reporter. She works alongside Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson to call the Network’s top game each week. She also anchors coverage on CBS Sports HQ. Dell, who joined CBS Sports in 2014, previously served as the lead college football reporter on CBS Sports Network and has worked games as a sideline reporter for THE NFL ON CBS and SEC ON CBS.
Kaylee Hartung, (Prime Video, NBC)
Kaylee Hartung is the sideline reporter for this Thursday Night Football on Prime Video. In addition to her role on TNF, Kaylee is a contributing correspondent for NBC’s Today Show. Throughout her career, she has worked in a variety of high-profile reporting roles, including ABC’s Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, and Nightline.
Tom Rinaldi, (FOX, FS1)
Veteran journalist Tom Rinaldi joined FOX Sports in 2021, contributing across the network’s portfolio of live events. He serves as the lead reporter from FOX NFL’s top game each week alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, analyst Tom Brady, reporter Erin Andrews, and rules analyst Mike Pereira. Throughout his career, Rinaldi has covered many of the biggest events in sports, from the sidelines of the Super Bowl, World Cup, and College Football Playoff National Championship to the Daytona 500, Masters, Wimbledon, the Olympics, NBA, and more.
Holly Rowe, (ESPN, ESPN+, ABC)
Holly Rowe celebrates more than 20 years as one of ESPN’s most versatile commentators. Rowe joined the network full-time in August 1998. She is a reporter on several high-profile events and programming. This includes ABC Saturday Night Football, NCAA Women’s Final Four, NCAA Women’s College World Series, NCAA indoor and beach volleyball national championships, and the WNBA.
Lisa Salters, (ESPN, ABC)
Lisa Salters is a well-accomplished, Sports Emmy-winning reporter with more than three decades of experience. She is the sideline reporter for ESPN’s Monday Night Football and NBA games on ESPN and ABC. Salters was named the sideline reporter in April 2012 and is now the longest-tenured sideline reporter in MNF history. In May 2023, Salters won her first Sports Emmy in the ‘Outstanding Personality/Reporter’ category.
Tracy Wolfson, (CBS, TNT)
Tracy Wolfson is the lead sideline reporter on CBS for the NFL and men’s college basketball. She is a seven-time Emmy Award-nominated reporter and received the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sideline Reporter in 2024. She was named the NFL On CBS lead reporter in 2014 and has called numerous top games, including four Super Bowls.
Three Sideline Reporters Should Have Been Nominated Who Were Not
Not advocating for anyone nominated not to be, but three NFL sideline reporters do a great job each week and should have been nominated as well.
Those three are:
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- Erin Andrews, (FOX)
- Melissa Stark, (NBC)
- Aditi Kinkhabwala, (CBS)
Erin Andrews, (FOX)
FOX Sports veteran sideline reporter Erin Andrews contributes exclusive interviews and sideline reports from FOX NFL’s top game each week as part of the network’s lead crew. Since 2012, Andrews has been an integral part of some of FOX Sports’ biggest events. This includes four Super Bowls (Super Bowl XLVIII, Super Bowl LI, Super Bowl LIV, Super Bowl LVII), 10 NFC Championships, and the 2014 and 2015 World Series/MLB All-Star Games.
The fact that she was not nominated despite her excellent career is a bizarre decision.
Melissa Stark, (NBC)
Melissa Stark is the sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football. She is a veteran journalist with experience in investigative reporting, interviewing, and hosting. She joined the SNF crew in 2024. Stark has more than 25 years of national sports broadcasting experience, including working at ESPN and the NFL Network.
Stark has done a superb job as the lead sideline reporter for SNF. She should have been nominated.
Aditi Kinkhabwala, (CBS)
Aditi Kinkhabwala is a sideline reporter for CBS. She joined the NFL on CBS in 2022 after spending 10 years as a national correspondent at the NFL Network. In three short years as a sideline reporter for CBS, Kinkhabwala has quickly become one of the best in the business.
The Sports Emmys decision makers need to look at other sideline reporters besides those in the lead role. Kinkhabwala deserves consideration, as well as Melanie Collins and Pam Olver for the Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter award.
Who Will Win The Outstanding Personality/Sideline Reporter Award?
All six nominations are excellent at their jobs.
With the push of women’s sports in the media and ratings soaring, Holly Rowe is the best guess for winning the award this year.
