CBS Tops Daytime Emmy Award Nominations

Last month, CBS celebrated four straight years--208 consecutive weeks--as the No. 1 network in daytime television ratings, and on Wednesday the celebration continued when the 20th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced.

As has become its habit in recent years, CBS pulled in by far the most nominations overall with 74. PBS received 41, followed by ABC with 39, NBC with 18 and Fox with eight.

CBS scored big with “Guiding Light,” a 40-year-old show that was once again the most recognized in daytime television with 18 nominations, followed by 13 for the top-rated show in daytime, “The Young and the Restless.”

ABC’s “All My Children” received 11 nominations, including its 18th for best drama, a prize it has never won, while NBC’s “Another World” had 10. “Santa Barbara,” which NBC canceled earlier this season, received four nominations.

The winners will be announced on May 26 in a prime-time awards ceremony hosted by ABC’s Susan Lucci and Walt Willey from “All My Children.” Lucci, the perennial runner-up as outstanding lead actress in a drama series, received her 14th nod for her vixen role as Erica Kane. She has never won despite 13 previous nominations.

In children’s programming, PBS maintained its annual dominance, led by “Sesame Street” with 10 nominations and “Reading Rainbow” with seven. PBS’ hottest new children’s show, “Barney & Friends,” was nominated for two awards. Fox’s dark “Batman: The Animated Series” was the top cartoon with five.

Syndicated programs, meanwhile, collected a total of 35 nominations in the 44 daytime Emmy categories.

Among cable channels, Disney Channel led with 11 nominations, followed by HBO with four, Nickelodeon with three and Lifetime with two, while A&E; and CNN each had one.

Oprah Winfrey, whose syndicated talk show received six nominations, will vie for her third straight Emmy as outstanding talk/service show host with Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, Vicki Lawrence and Joan Rivers, whose show also talked up six nominations.

Here is a partial list of the nominees from the Academy of Television Arts & Science (in Los Angeles) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (in New York). Nominations covered the period from March 6, 1992, to Feb. 5, 1993:

Drama series: “All My Children,” ABC; “As the World Turns,” CBS; “Guiding Light,” CBS; “The Young and the Restless,” CBS.

Game show: “The Family Feud Challenge,” CBS; “Jeopardy!,” syndicated; “The Price Is Right,” CBS; “Wheel of Fortune,” syn.

Children’s series: “Barney & Friends,” PBS; “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” PBS; “Reading Rainbow,” PBS; “Sesame Street,” PBS; “Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?,” PBS.

Children’s special: “ABC Weekend Special: Citykids,” ABC; “Higher Goals,” PBS; “Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story,” HBO; “ABC Afterschool Special: Shades of a Single Protein,” ABC; “CBS Schoolbreak Special: Words Up!,” CBS.

Animated program: “Batman: The Animated Series,” Fox; “Disney’s Darkwing Duck,” ABC; “Doug,” Nickelodeon; “Rugrats,” Nickelodeon; “Tiny Toon Adventures,” Fox.

Talk/service show: “Donahue,” syn.; “Good Morning America,” ABC; “Live With Regis & Kathie Lee,” syn.; “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” syn.; “This Old House,” PBS.

Special class program: “CNN Newsroom,” CNN; “Great Wonders of the World: Wonders of Nature,” Disney Channel; “Live From Lincoln Center: Chamber Music Society,” PBS; “This Island Earth,” Disney Channel; “What Every Baby Knows,” Lifetime.

Lead actress, drama series: Susan Lucci (Erica Kane), “All My Children,” ABC; Julia Barr (Brooke English), “All My Children,” ABC; Linda Dano (Felicia Gallant), “Another World,” NBC; Ellen Dolan (Margo Hughes), “As the World Turns,” CBS; Maeve Kinkead (Vanessa Chamberlain), “Guiding Light,” CBS.

Lead actor, drama series: David Canary (Adam and Stuart Chandler), “All My Children,” ABC; Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe), “Guiding Light,” CBS; Mark Derwin (A.C. Mallet), “Guiding Light,” CBS; Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan), “One Life to Live,” ABC; A Martinez (Cruz Castillo), “Santa Barbara,” NBC; Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott), “The Young and the Restless,” CBS.

Supporting actress, drama series: Jill Larson (Opal Cortlandt), “All My Children,” ABC; Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine), “General Hospital,” ABC; Ellen Parker (Maureen Bauer), “Guiding Light,” CBS; Tonja Walker (Alex Olanov Hesser), “One Life to Live,” ABC; Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter), “The Young and the Restless,” CBS.

Supporting actor, drama series: Charles Keating (Carl Hutchins), “Another World,” NBC; Gerald Anthony (Marco Dane), “General Hospital,” ABC; Kin Shriner (Scotty Baldwin), “General Hospital,” ABC; Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding), “Guiding Light,” CBS; Thom Christopher (Carlo Hesser/Mortimer Bern), “One Life to Live,” ABC.

Performer, children’s series: John Astin, “Addams Family,” ABC; Shari Lewis, “Lamb Chop’s Play-Along,” PBS; Fred Rogers, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” PBS; LeVar Burton, “Reading Rainbow,” PBS; Jerry Nelson, “Sesame Street,” PBS.

Game show host: Ray Combs, “The Family Feud Challenge,” CBS; Alex Trebek, “Jeopardy!,” syn.; Bob Barker, “The Price Is Right,” CBS; Pat Sajak, “Wheel of Fortune,” syn.

Talk show host: Phil Donahue, “Donahue,” syn.; Joan Rivers, “The Joan Rivers Show,” syn.; Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, “Live With Regis & Kathie Lee,” syn.; Oprah Winfrey, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” syn.; Vicki Lawrence, “Vicki!,” syn.