Over 900,000 Watch Daytime Emmys on HLN
There's good news, and not-so good news in regards to the Nielsen ratings for Saturday night's Daytime Emmy telecast on HLN. First the good news. The premiere broadcast of the 39th Annual Daytime Emmys was the most watched, regularly-scheduled non-news broadcast in the network’s history. A reported 912,000 people tuned in; 327,000 among adults 25-54 Now for the not so good news.
The telecast's ratings were down from viewership of last year's CBS airing of the 38th Annual Daytime Emmys (5.4 million) by 83 percent. Considering that many of daytime television's most diehard fans might not have cable, I'd say the show did impressive business.
It doesn't take nearly the amount of viewers to be considered a hit and/or make a profit on cable as it does for network TV. Over two million people tuned in to all five of HLN's Daytime Emmy broadcasts as a whole. Here's hoping that will be enough to entice them to air the show again next year!
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29 December 2009
24 min 51 sec
Let's hope so!
18 February 2009
42 min 38 sec
Hopefully, next year's daytime Emmys will be folded back into the Prime Time broadcast, as it was in the early 70s and earlier. That's the best hope we have of soaps getting any kind of exposure to a significant audience.
13 March 2012
5 weeks 3 days
Tony Geary looks 85 not 65,cool it on the plastic surgery!
7 April 2011
16 hours 14 min
Mortimer!
17 June 2009
17 sec
there's NO good news here, STOP IT.
this is just plain embarrassing.
23 August 2011
9 weeks 3 days
Considering we'd never even heard of HLN before, and had to search our cable guide to even find it, it's not surprising so few people watched. Sadly, the hackneyed writing for the presenters' intros was pretty much as awful as last year's (and most years for that matter).
7 April 2011
16 hours 14 min
Rip Taylor?
13 February 2010
1 hour 23 min
Tony Geary is starting to look like a thin Santa Clause. UGH.
28 February 2009
2 hours 7 min
this is just plain embarrassing.
And yet...and YET....0 viewers would be even more embarrassing.
Jamey's right: It's a good number to reach even considering either A. many viewers don't have cable, satellite, etc. B. they may not have been able to find HLN and C. some may have forgotten about the ceremony.
I have a question: When did Dr. House become a commenter on the DC boards?
2 December 2011
1 hour 4 min
There's an article posted on the WLS site that states that NATAS is considering a hybrid Emmys combining the Daytime with the Sports and News Emmys.
Can you say YAWN??
I think it was obvious from this weekend's broadcast with only 4 soaps remaining on TV, the Emmys are seeking a reduced role for the Soaps for the foreseeable future.
14 June 2009
2 hours 32 min
It might also have to do with HLN to start with. I was not even sure what that was when I heard it was airing the daytime awards. I had to figure out where that was on my cable listing. Actually I thought HLN was a shopping network lol. Anyway I also did not know what day the show started or what time. I actually came across it by accident when I was perusing the channels. So maybe people like me just didn't find it as well as a portion of the audience not having cable. Plus maybe people thought it was just gonna be another advertisement for Vegas with a children's charity telethon and an Oprah Winfrey worship service that she didn't bother to attentd thrown in for good measure! Boring as the show was and as few viewers as it had, it still was way less embarassing than last years offering.