NEW YORK -- PBS dominated the field Monday during the 28th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, racking up 10 wins for programs that tackled topics such as the sex-slave trade, scientific research on chimpanzees and the war in Iraq.
The commercial broadcast and cable networks trailed substantially: CBS, in second place, won half as many awards, most of them for "60 Minutes." NBC and Discovery Channel followed with three wins each. Cinemax garnered two, and ABC and CNN each got one.
Amid a night of celebrating the best in television news, one of the most poignant moments was a personal one, with lifetime achievement award recipient Ted Koppel performing a song he composed for his wife. As the anchor warbled, "Any place you're not is a place I wouldn't want to be," many in the black-tie crowd wiped their eyes.
The news Emmys, handed out by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, were delivered in a decidedly less-glitzy manner than the prime-time entertainment Emmys, given out earlier this month in Los Angeles. The four-hour ceremony will air on C-SPAN 2.
