Spanish-language KMEX and KVEA lead the local Emmys

Screen grab from the live stream of the Emmys thank you cam, one of two live web feeds during the evening.

The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards were handed out Saturday night at the Skirball Center and LA's biggest Spanish-language TV stations went home with the most hardware. It wasn't really close. KMEX Channel 34 won for best morning news program — that's on any station in LA in any language — and KVEA Channel 52 won for best evening newscast. The two Spanish-language stations shared the award for best daytime news show. In addition, KMEX won awards for the best serious and best light multi-part news stories and for the top investigative and sports reporting. KVEA won for best sports series and public affairs program shot in-studio.

In the individual awards, Antonio Camberos of KMEX won the editor award for programming and Jaime Sanchez of KVEA won as outstanding editor on a news show. Horacio Cervantes of KMEX won for outstanding news director. In the final tally, KMEX had nine winners, KVEA seven.

There are far too many categories to note them all, but a few key awards: Nicolette Medina of CBS2/KCAL9 won outstanding news writer and David Ono of ABC7 won for outstanding writer on programming. Pat Harvey and Medina won for outstanding news feature reporting. Harvey also received the Governor's Award.

Here's the full list of winners.