This year's awards are notable for adding new categories for news and documentary programming in Spanish.
"Frontline" on PBS received 11 nominations for nine different programs and the trailer for its two-part look at the NFL's concussion crisis, "League of Denial." "Independent Lens" received 10 nominations, and "POV" received six.
Other PBS programs nominated included "PBS NewsHour," "PBS NewsHour Weekend," "The Central Park Five," "American Experience," "Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance," "Lincoln@Gettysburg," "Need to Know," "Nova," "Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle" and "The African-Americans: Many Rivers to Cross."
Primetime Emmy powerhouse HBO, which led the pack of prime-time Emmy nominations with 19, received 15 news and documentary nominations, all for its HBO Documentary Films series.
New categories include outstanding newscast or news magazine in Spanish, outstanding coverage of a breaking news story in Spanish and outstanding investigative journalism in Spanish.
The complete list of nominees can be found here.
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