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Who Will Air The Daytime Emmys?

Cable outlet HLN has broadcast the Daytime Emmy Awards for the past two years, but there won’t be a third. “It’s fairly definite,” Albie Hecht, the network’s vice president and general manager, tells Soaps In Depth. “I just want to put a pause on everything and figure out what we’re doing before we make any commitments. Shows like [the Daytime Emmys] need commitments in advance to plan and I don’t think we can make that commitment.”

Hecht, who joined HLN a little over three months ago, says that the decision has been made early so that the National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) can make other plans. “It’s only fair to let them look around and let them do what they need to do,” the HNL chief adds.

This doesn’t mean that the Daytime Emmys won’t be on television, however. “Having the show on HLN was a wonderful experience for us,” says David Michaels, senior executive director of the Daytime Emmy Awards. “We are currently exploring other avenues so that the Daytime Emmys will have a broadcast home.”

For her part, THE TALK’s Aisha Tyler would love to see the ceremony return to one of the big three networks. “I think it would be great,” she says. “CBS is the number one daytime network. It’d be great to have the Daytime Emmys on the number one daytime network. I think that would make perfect sense!”

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