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Opinion: Look What's Missing From Daytime TV

Sep 17th 2010 – 6:27AM
Heidi Gutman, ABC / AP

Heidi Gutman, ABC / AP

(Sept. 17) -- Recent news from the world of daytime television has heralded some dramatic changes: the decline of soap operas. The remaking of talk shows from tabloid to respectable (so much so that President Barack Obama can drop by). The dusting off of old game shows -- "Let's Make a Deal," "The Price Is Right" -- with...

Obama on 'The View': Where Will It Rank Among His Top TV Moments?

By Steven HofferJul 28th 2010 – 2:40PM

(July 28) -- President Barack Obama boldly rewrote television history, or something like that, when his visit with the ladies of "The View" on Wednesday made him the first sitting president to visit a daytime talk show. (Don't worry, you didn't miss it. It airs Thursday at 11 a.m. EDT.) While critics contend that the...

Background on daytime tv

Daytime television is a television genre which features television programming traditionally produced and scheduled to air between the hours of 9am (at the end of morning show-type programming) and 7pm (when local news and the early fringe of primetime begins).

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