Little known secret about media awards given to each other – there are often 10x more awards than media entities competing for them – this is why all reporters are “Award winning”. Everyone’s a winner!

“Since at least 2010, ESPN inserted fake names in Emmy entries, then took the awards won by some of those imaginary individuals, had them re-engraved and gave them to on-air personalities,” Strang reported.

Some of those who took awards home intended for ficticious “associate producers” were faces of the network like Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso and reporters like Shelley Smith and Gene Wojciechowski.

ESPN returns 37 Emmys won using fake names: Report | KTLA

ESPN may have been doing this for 25 years!