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Hello everyone, sorry this is a little delayed but things have been pretty hectic with moving back home, playing softball and I’m sure everyone knows what I mean. Unfortunate things had to end the way they did, but there really isn’t a whole lot we can do about that.
This blog, for my media topic, I am going to do media in general. According to dictionary.com the definition of media is the means of communication, as radios and televisions, newspapers, and magazines that reach or influence people widely.
The media is around and influences, I believe, everything a person does. We listen to the media in hopes of good news, searching for bad news, and even for satisfaction. I also personally don’t think that we could live without media. The media helps us learn more about scientific discoveries, it helps us with learning about natural disasters around the world and how to prevent from suffering the same losses. The media also helps us with learning what type of weather or what type of storm will be coming through our area.
People always have arguments that media is showing far too many negative things, which at times is true. But there are so many horrible things going on in the world right now, that it can sometimes be hard to focus on the positives, one of the negatives being the wars going on around the world.
Another thing that is often brought up is the amount of violence that is shown in media. People often believe that with the amounts of violence in the media that is a main cause for all of the violence in everyday life, with the crimes in the streets, abuse, and even rape. There has been an argument on this topic for over three decades about whether or not media violence actually does cause real-life violence or not. In my opinion it does affect people, especially young children. For the simple fact that if they see someone on TV go and do something they will believe it is okay. But at the same time I don’t really think there is a whole lot more you can do to prevent it. It then comes down to Mom and Dad to explain that that is not okay, it’s just TV.

The Daytime Emmy Awards

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog on Soap Operas. My topic for this week is something that I’m sure everyone knows about or has at least heard of. The Daytime Emmy’s.
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards that are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. The first Daytime Emmy was awarded in 1972 to the show The Doctors, The Doctors and General Hospital were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime television.
The Emmy is awarded in 68 categories, including acknowledgements for series, performers and all other technical and creative areas. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards season culminates with a televised show that pays tribute to the exceptional work of daytime broadcasting's elite. There have been 35 Daytime Emmy Awards, two of which were not televised (1983, 1984).
As I have previously mentioned in quite a few of my blogs, the acting on soap operas is horrible and people know it, even those nominating people and choosing the winners for the awards. That is the main reason why year after year, they usually have the same people to be nominated for the same awards. In fact, All My Children star, Susan Lucci was nominated 19 times without any wins. She finally came out on top and won for the Best Actress in 1999.
As for the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, it was announced in March that The CW, for the first time, will broadcast the Emmy’s in August. They will be hosted in New York City, the big apple. The location for them is currently unknown, whether they are at the Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, or another venue, they will find somewhere!
In my opinion, the Emmy’s are kind of an award show that people often forget about. Even though the acting maybe isn’t quite up to the caliber of the actors and actresses on The Oscars I think they still deserve to have the same recognition of others.

Another Soap Off the Air..

Welcome back everyone, this week’s blog is going to look into CBS’s recent decision to pull the plug on their epic soap “Guiding Light”.
Shows go on and off the air all the time, but they aren’t always daytime epics that have aired for decades. They are usually shows that no one watches or don’t have as good of a plot line as they had originally expected.
April 1st it was announced that CBS’s “Guiding Light” would air its last episode on September 18 of this year. CBS’s daytime soap is the longest-running television drama, it started its 72-year run in 1937. The show began as a 15-minute radio serial and then moved to television for the last 57 years. Their reasoning for pulling the show was their loss of 13 percent of their viewers and ranking last among other daytime soaps. As of right now, they are searching for a new home for the show, but no news as of now.
“For many of us, it was the first show we ever watched,” said Lynn Leahey, editorial director of Soap Opera Digest. Unlike prime-time shows that came and went it was constantly in people’s lives. “It really is heartbreaking to see something like this go away.” (Courtesy of baltimoresun.com)
Soap operas in the last few years have been losing popularity in a slow decline, the main reason for that is that the women that were dedicating their time to their soaps are no longer at home during that hour of the day. They are out working, and they are finding the experience that the soap gave them elsewhere in their life.
The show has this year, averaged 2.1 million viewers (since September), with in comparison to last year has a drastic drop. Last year’s viewers were 2.4 million. According to Nielsen, a New York-based TV researcher, the show “The Young and the Restless” is the number one watched soap opera with a viewing audience of 5.3 million.
One thing that may give “The Young and the Restless” a bigger fan base is the time of day it appears on television, it is closer to supper time, after people get off work and come home. I found “The Young and the Restless” an easier show to watch just because of the time it was on television. I can honestly say I’ve never watched “Guiding Light” therefore I don’t know how the show was, but with it being on the air for 72 years, it had to have been good and seeing it go is a great tragedy.