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ABC, SOAPnet and CBS Decline to Air; 2009 Daytime Emmys!
Topic Started: Nov 4 2008, 04:45 PM (1,803 Views)
Rakesh198
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Roger Newcomb over at We Love Soaps has broken news that CBS, ABC and SOAPnet have all declined to air next year's Daytime Emmy telecast. NBC took it self out of the rotation years ago. If this isn't a sign of the Soapocalypse I don't know what is! For more on this developing story click here.

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In the new issue of TV Guide, ABC Daytime publicist Jori Petersen says, "At this time, neither ABC nor SOAPnet has plans to broadcast the event."

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is now offering the show to other networks and cable channels, and is proceeding as if all will be well.

"We hope to know what's happening by December," says NATAS executive director Brent Stanton. "I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. I've got lots of people who want an answer."

http://welovesoaps.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-on-2009-daytime-emmy-awards.html
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Rakesh198
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Those networks should be shot to death.
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darraholic
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Very grim. You'd think SOAPNet would air it.
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Steve Frame
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I could see it coming with ABC. NBC dropped out when their shows were ignored. So I knew it wouldn't be long before ABC would drop out too since it's shows are being ignored. And since SoapNet is big time ABC for the most part I knew they wouldn't want it either. Face it the ratings have been going down too. That is what happened with the SOD Awards being televised. The ratings dropped and no one wanted them.

Just look at the other shows that once were network shows like the Miss America Pageant which now airs on CMT.

Daytime has not wanted the Daytime Emmys for years now and I knew that when primetime ratings dropped and they didn't want them that Daytime wouldn't take them back. If the very genre that the awards are supposed to honor don't want you that is a bad sign.
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jcar03
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Honestly, I don't blame any of them.

The ratings are constantly down and these kind of things cost money to put on and if advertisers aren't willing to pay they aren't going to want to carry the telecast. Plus the Emmy's have become a farce anyway. Just send the Torphies to those who always win and call it a day.
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RogerNewcomb
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How about airing it, I don't know, during the DAYTIME? I guess if none of the networks want it, that won't happen, but maybe they have only rejected the prime time version. You know a cable network will want to take the show, and will probably feature Ellen, The View ladies, Rachael Ray and Regis/Kelly in all their coverage. :(
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Rakesh198
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I hope Lifetime picks it up.
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Y&RWorldTurner
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Sharongate, bitches!

They should give PBS the hosting duties and add a few more technical awards to the main broadcast. PBS tends to dominate the technical side of the Daytime Emmy's, and I'm sure they're willing to host it if offered. I'm sure it would attack a whole different demographic for the PBS affiliates.
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ladyofthelake
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Rakesh198
Nov 4 2008, 04:46 PM
Those networks should be shot to death.
Why? The thing is a travesty, and they probably know it.
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OneBadKitty
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The Daytime Emmys isn't just soaps, it's all daytime programming. Someone is bound to step in and pick it up.
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Y&RWorldTurner
Nov 4 2008, 05:45 PM
They should give PBS the hosting duties and add a few more technical awards to the main broadcast. PBS tends to dominate the technical side of the Daytime Emmy's, and I'm sure they're willing to host it if offered. I'm sure it would attack a whole different demographic for the PBS affiliates.
This probably wouldn't be a bad idea. Two solid hours of Emmy Telecasting with no commercials and just awards, awards, awards.

But knowing PBS, the soap portion would be done in the first hour, the way Children's Programming is. Just fine with me. :)
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Steve Frame
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Roger, The reason daytime quit airing it years ago was because the networks that aired soaps that day always beat them. No one watched the awards but watched the soaps. None of the networks wanted to give up a days worth of their shows to air the awards.
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Mason


I knew this was coming, but I figured it would be at another year or two before it did...
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King
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Wow. This is the....12th sign of the apocalypse? LOL. We should start a thread.
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~bl~
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Read that in TVGuide today. Not that surprised since NBC dumped it, and now CBS said no. I can understand why ABC doesn't want to be the only ones airing the Daytime Emmy show especially considering how CBS has been so dominant in recent years and the ratings have gone into the toilet.
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Ilovethesoaps


I think the writing is on the wall the very networks that air the shows seem to want to have nothing to do with them! How very sad! But with ratings going down the tubes, I guess this is what is coming to! I don't know who would WANT to put the show on?! The fans want to see their emmy show and the networks don't give a damn. . . what a mess!!! This is sad!
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Mason


I do take comfort in the fact that the Emmys have become totally meaningless. It makes it a little easier to digest, LoL.
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Steve Frame
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I know they have become meaningless to some, but there are many of us as soap fans who still hold them dear to our hearts and the study. What so many are complaining about with the Emmys have been problems since they existed. Some say it has gotten worse and maybe it has for their shows, but it has always been that way for some shows. It was 11 years into the awards before ATWT even got nominated or won one. GL was ignored by the awards until 1980 - that is 7 years before they got nominated. Y&R performers couldn't even get Emmy voters to look at them. It took them 13 years (I think) before they could even pull an acting nomination.

And so many performers have won from the beginning that didn't deserve to win. The first Best Actor winner Macdonald Carey hardly had anything to do that year or the next. He was a basically a supporting actor. Same with Laurie Heineman who was only on a few months in the year that she won Best Actress. Helen Gallagher didn't deserve both of her Best Actress wins in the 1970's. And so many others down through the years.

The awards have never been fair and never been done right. It is nothing new. It is just now they favor a different set of shows and networks. In the 70's it was ABC and NBC. Early 80's it was all ABC. Latter 80's it was heavy NBC and CBS.

Under both sets of voting there was block voting that left so many out. Until the new game plan shows like B&B couldn't even get a nom. They could at first under the new system until the bigger shows learned a new way to keep them down.

It is no wonder that as reporter in Daytime TV in Feb. 1973 that in New York the actors/actresses voted 150 for and 79 against even having the Daytime Emmys. So many were against them even coming into existence. The reason most often cited by the ones voting against having a separate set of Awards was that they would be the ones voting and there was no way with the daytime schedule they could watch the other shows as half the time they couldn't even watch their own show.

So I still watch the awards because I have sat through the years when CBS couldn't even get Emmy to look at them. I sat through the years when ABC got 90% of the nominations - years when there were 20 performers nominated for acting awards and ABC got 18 of them. What we have seen in the last few years doesn't even compare.

I know many will come back and say that for the most part back then you could see why someone was nominated. I say phooey on that. I have sat many times through the years from 1974 on and gone WTF how in the hell did they get a nomination.
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GBun


Well at one point, the Daytime Emmys *were* crowd-getters. In 1991 (its first year broadcast in primetime) it was the No. 1 show during the week it aired. The same in 1992.

Still, I find it odd that CBS would turn it down since the award show seems to be a buffet of advertising for its own line-up these days.

If nobody picks it up for primetime, I hope one network will reconsider and see how it would do when aired during the day again.
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Mason


Even though CBS does a shitty job with them, I really hope it reconsiders and decides to air them. Considering their shows win the vast majority of the awards, it doesn't seem that unreasonable, in spite of the pitiful ratings. Just air it on a Saturday night when no one watches TV anyway.
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