The Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Studio Show has been awarded since 1988. At first, it awarded any sports studio show, whether it was a pregame show or a nightly news show. Beginning in 2001, the category was split into two subcategories — Outstanding Studio Show, Daily and Outstanding Studio Show, Weekly.

List of winners

• 2007 TNT's Inside the NBA playoff shows (Daily); ESPN's College Gameday (Weekly)
• 2006 TNT's Inside the NBA playoff shows (Daily); ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown (Weekly)
• 2005 TNT's Inside the NBA playoff shows (Daily); HBO's Inside the NFL (Weekly)
• 2004 ESPN's SportsCenter (Daily); HBO's Inside the NFL (Weekly)
• 2003 ESPN's SportsCenter (Daily); ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown (Weekly)
• 2002 ESPN's Baseball Tonight (Daily); HBO's Inside the NFL (Weekly)
• 2001 TNT and TBS's Inside the NBA (Daily); ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown (Weekly)
• 2000 FOX NFL Sunday
• 1999 Major League Baseball pregame show on Fox
• 1998 FOX NFL Sunday
• 1997 FOX NFL Sunday
• 1996 ESPN's SportsCenter
• 1995 a tie between ESPN's NFL GameDay and FOX NFL Sunday
• 1994 ESPN's NFL GameDay
• 1993 CBS's The NFL Today
• 1992 CBS's The NFL Today
• 1991 a tie between ESPN's NFL GameDay and NBC's NFL Live
• 1990 ESPN's SportsCenter
• 1989 CBS's The NFL Today
• 1988 ESPN's NFL GameDay