CBS Leads News and Doc Emmy Nominations With 46......and faux noise??? not a one....

CBS topped the nominations for the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards with 46, according to the list announced on Thursday by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The network's venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes was also the most nominated program, receiving 24 nominations. PBS followed close behind with 45 overall nominations while its Frontline was the second-most nominated program with 18. David Fanning, founder and executive producer of PBS' Frontline, will also receive the Lifetime Achievement Award this year.

HBO received 21 nominations for its Documentary Films unit, while ABC received 14, including five for Nightline, and NBC received 13 including five for its newsmagazine Dateline.

Among the basic cable networks, CNN lead with eight nods, followed by National Geographic Channel and Smithsonian Channel, which picked up four each, and Discovery Channel, which had three. History, AXS-TV, BBC World News America and CNBC each received two nominations.

Bloomberg, Investigation Discovery, MTV, Univision, Nat Geo Wild, Science Channel and Showtime each picked up one nomination apiece.

The News and Doc Emmys will be presented on Tuesday, Oct. 1 in a ceremony at the Time Warner Center in New York City.

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I wonder if Roger Ailes even cares.....