No televised awards ceremony for Daytime Emmys

[mvcg66b3r]

There will be no telecast of this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards, said the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) on Thursday.

“After last year’s critically successful Daytime telecast, it is with great disappointment that the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announces that there will not be a broadcast of the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards,” said Bob Mauro, president, in a statement.

“After months of negotiations to find show sponsorship, the NATAS Executive Board has decided that the current climate for awards shows prohibits the possibility of a telecast this year. With that said, we will be putting on a world-class awards celebration honoring the best and brightest of Daytime television and look forward to an exciting show. All efforts regarding returning the annual gala to television in 2017 are underway.”

Last year, the show aired on CBS-owned Pop, which received strong reviews from viewers after a debacle in 2014 when the show was streamed online only and hosted by Kathy Griffin.

A ceremony will still be held on Sunday, May 1, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in downtown Los Angeles, and the Daytime Creative Arts Awards will be handed out on Friday, April 29, also at the Bonaventure.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/programming/no-televised-awards-ceremony-daytime-emmys/154946

 

[anotherguyTN]

There isn't enough programming in daytime TV that deserves any kind of awards, unless it's for worst programming.

 

[JeeperOne]

Without all the talk & courtroom shows, I don't see the point in even HOLDING a ceremony

JMO.....

Cheers & 73

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

There isn't enough programming in daytime TV that deserves any kind of awards, unless it's for worst programming.

Or for these categories: "Weirdest Talk Show Guests" (with almost all of the nominees coming from the Jerry Springer Show), "Most Outrageous Talk Show Moments," "Biggest Surprises," etc.

 

[nickp]

The only way for Daytime Emmys to get back on TV is for a ton of sponsors to support the production in full

 

[crainbebo]

Daytime Emmys had a lot more choices to choose from, circa 1986. Now with four soap operas, two daytime network game shows, and the syndicated trash talk/court shows, not worth it.

 

[KeithE4]

Daytime Emmys had a lot more choices to choose from, circa 1986. Now with four soap operas, two daytime network game shows, and the syndicated trash talk/court shows, not worth it.

Would Donald Trump's performances on the cable-noise channels nominate him for Best Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera?

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Daytime Emmys had a lot more choices to choose from, circa 1986. Now with four soap operas, two daytime network game shows, the syndicated trash talk/court shows, and no Saturday morning cartoons, not worth it.

Fixed.

 

[umfan]

Would Donald Trump's performances on the cable-noise channels nominate him for Best Actor in a Daytime Soap Opera?

If that were so, they'd probably rate a telecast.

 

[Bob Eubanks]

Daytime Emmys had a lot more choices to choose from, circa 1986. Now with four soap operas, two daytime network game shows, the syndicated trash talk/court shows, and no Saturday morning cartoons, not worth it..

Except there are more, far more, choices for children of multiple ages today. That they don't air on Saturday mornings on three networks is a myopic view--PBS Kid has grown to encompass a full day of excellent programming on many affiliates. Disney and Nick have both "junior" and not-so-junior blocks with the junior shows doing a generally admirable job of mixing in beneficial content rather than being entirely, proverbially, empty calories. And Cartoon Network is there with plenty of creative shows particularly for the pre-tween and tween crowd. Get over the old model.

Similarly, there may be two game shows on all of three networks, but syndication and satellite/cable networks have their own entries, and do quite nicely with them.

 

[tall_guy1]

Except there are more, far more, choices for children of multiple ages today. That they don't air on Saturday mornings on three networks is a myopic view--PBS Kid has grown to encompass a full day of excellent programming on many affiliates. Disney and Nick have both "junior" and not-so-junior blocks with the junior shows doing a generally admirable job of mixing in beneficial content rather than being entirely, proverbially, empty calories. And Cartoon Network is there with plenty of creative shows particularly for the pre-tween and tween crowd. Get over the old model.

Similarly, there may be two game shows on all of three networks, but syndication and satellite/cable networks have their own entries, and do quite nicely with them.

Kid's cartoons have dwindled from television since the 1990s (when I grew up). While there are several sources for toddlers during daytime hours (only mornings on basic cable and PBS before 5:30), male kids only have Cartoon Network and Nick during daytime hours before 7 p.m. Central. Quite a bit has been discontinued including Saturday morning cartoons on broadcast channels, afternoon cartoons on broadcast channels, Nighttime kid's cartoons (Adult Swim used to not start until 10 central). There also used to be Fox Family, PAX Kids, and WGN and TBS aired kid's cartoons back in the "day."

 

[Bob Eubanks]

They haven't dwindled, they moved to new places and new platforms. The littlest kids have Sprout, Disney Junior (the full-time channel) and Nick Junior (the full time channel), plus Nick Jr on Nickelodeon and Disney Junior on Disney Channel (part time, both ending in mornings when school is typically out). So there's "only" Nick and Disney Channel from either mid morning or mid afternoon depending on the season through the remainder of the day (and night, in Disney Channel's case), Disney XD full time, Cartoon Network for like 15 hours a day. Plus there's TeenNick and Nicktoons, Boomerang, Discovery Family (and probably more) out there offering kids shows--it isn't just about cartoons anymore.

But even that ignores the bigger picture: we live in an on-demand world. It doesn't matter what's "on" any of the channels at a given moment. It doesn't happen to matter if, for instance, Disney is in their Disney Junior morning block, because there's a boatload of their shows available through all kinds of other methods. And then there are the plethora of shows on Hulu, Amazon, Netflix and the like.

The world is bigger than linear channels.