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'''NBC Daytime''' was the daytime programming block of [[NBC]]. It historically featured many [[soap opera]]s, [[game show]]s, and [[Talk show|talk shows]].
Its main competitors were [[CBS Daytime]] and [[ABC Daytime]].
 
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*'''Writing team:''' Co-Head Writer: Ryan Quan. Associate Head Writers: [[Lorraine Broderick]], Christopher Dunn. Script Editor: [[Fran Myers]]. Script Writers: [[Carolyn Culliton]], [[Richard Culliton]], [[Jeanne Marie Ford]], [[Janet Iacobuzio]], [[Melissa Salmons]], [[David A. Levinson]].
*'''Directing team:''' [[Herb Stein]], Phil Sogard, [[Albert Alarr]], [[Grant A. Johnson]], Karen Wilkens, Steven Williford,
*'''Cast:''' Lucas Adams, [[Lamon Archey]], Lindsay Arnold, [[Matthew Ashford]], Camilla Banus, [[Brandon Barash]], [[Brandon Beemer]], [[Nadia Bjorlin]], [[Tamara Braun]], [[Isabel Durant]], [[Mary Beth Evans]], [[Billy Flynn (actor)|Billy Flynn]], [[Galen Gering]], [[Linsey Godfrey]], [[Stacy Haiduk]], [[Deidre Hall]], [[Drake Hogestyn]], [[Jay Kenneth Johnson]], [[Lauren Koslow]], [[Martha Madison]], [[Mike C. Manning]], [[Eric Martsolf]], [[CadyStephen McClainNichols]], [[MarciEmily MillerO'Brien]], [[StephenMelissa Nichols]], [[Emily O'BrienReeves]], [[James Reynolds (actor)|James Reynolds]], [[Suzanne Rogers]], [[Sal Stowers]], [[Josh Taylor (actor)|Josh Taylor]], [[Paul Telfer (actor)|Paul Telfer]], [[Robert Scott Wilson]], [[Arianne ZuckerZuker]]
 
==Former shows on NBC Daytime==
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*''[[First Love (1954 TV series)|First Love]]'' (1954–1955)
*''[[From These Roots]]'' (1958–1961)
*''[[Generations (AmericanU.S. TV series)|Generations]]'' (1989–1991)
*''[[Golden Windows]]'' (1954–1955)
*''The Greatest Gift'' (1954–1955)
*''[[Hawkins Falls, Population 6200|Hawkins Falls]]'' (1951–1955)
*''[[Hidden Faces (American1968 TV series)|Hidden Faces]]'' (1968–1969)
*''The House on High Street'' (1959–1960)
*''[[How to Survive a Marriage]]'' (1974–1975)
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===Game shows===
NBC ended its game show block in 1991. They briefly revived the format with three game shows in the 1993–94 season, but has not returned since. NBC now programs no game shows. Some of NBC's local stations now get their game shows via [[Broadcasttelevision syndication|syndication]]. All network-based game shows since 1993 have been weekly or semi-weekly primetime game shows.
 
*''[[All Star Secrets]]'' (1979)
*''[[PDQ (game show)|Baffle]]''PDQ'']] (1973–1974)▼
*''[[Battlestars (game show)|Battlestars/The New Battlestars]]'' (1981–1982, 1983)
*''[[The Big Payoff]]'' (1951–1953)
*''[[Blank Check (game show)|Blank Check]]'' (1975)
*''[[Blockbusters (AmericanU.S. game show)|Blockbusters]]'' (1980–1982, 1987)
*''[[Break the Bank (19451948 game show)|Break the Bank]]'' (1953)
*''[[Caesars Challenge]]'' (1993–1994)
*''[[Call My Bluff (AmericanU.S. game show)|Call My Bluff]]'' (1965)
*''[[Card Sharks]]'' (1978–1981; later aired on CBS from 1986–1989; revived by ABC for primetime in 2019)
*''[[Celebrity Sweepstakes]]'' (1974–1976)
*''[[Chain Letter (AmericanU.S. game show)|Chain Letter]]'' (1966)
*''[[Chain Reaction (game show)|Chain Reaction]]'' (1980; later aired on [[USA Network|USA]] from 1986–1991; aired on [[Game Show Network|GSN]] intermittently between 2007 and 2016)
*''Charge Account'' (1960–1962)
*''[[Concentration (game show)|Concentration]]'' (1958–1973; 1987–1991 as ''[[Concentration (game show)|Classic Concentration]]'')
*''County Fair'' (1958–1959)
*''[[Dough Re Mi]]'' (1958–1960)
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*''Fractured Phrases'' (1965)
*''The Fun Factory'' (1976)
*''[[Gambit (game show)|Gambit]]'' (1980–1981)▼
*''[[Go (game show)|Go!]]'' (1983–1984)
*''[[The Gong Show]]'' (1976–1978; revived by ABC for primetime in 2017)
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*''[[High Rollers]]'' (1974–1976, 1978–1980)
*''[[Hit Man (U.S. game show)|Hit Man]]'' (1983)
*''[[Hollywood Squares|The Hollywood Squares]]'' (1966–1980; later aired in syndication from 1986–1989 and from 1998–2004)
*''[[Hot Potato (game show)|Hot Potato]]'' (1984)
*''[[I'll Bet]]'' (1965)
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*''[[Just Men!]]'' (1983)
*''[[Knockout (game show)|Knockout]]'' (1977–1978)
▲*''[[Gambit (game show)|Las Vegas Gambit]]'' (1980–1981)
*''Ladies Choice'' (1953)
*''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'' (1963–1968 and 1990–1991; primetime version aired in 2003; currently airs on CBS)
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*''Lucky Partners'' (1958)
*''[[The Magnificent Marble Machine]]'' (1975–1976)
*''[[Match Game|The Match Game]]'' (1962–1969; later aired under a different format on CBS from 1973–1979 and on ABC in 1990–91; revived by ABC for primetime in 2016 as ''Match Game'')
*''[[Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour|The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour]]'' (1983–1984)
*''[[Memory Game]]'' (1971)
*''[[Mindreaders]]'' (1979–1980)
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*''On Your Account'' (1953)
*''[[Password Plus and Super Password|Password Plus]]'' (1979–1982)
▲*[[PDQ (game show)|''PDQ'']] (1973–1974)
*''[[People Will Talk (game show)|People Will Talk]]'' (1963)
*''[[Personality (gameTV showseries)|Personality]]'' (1967–1969)
*''[[Play Your Hunch]]'' (1959–1963)
*''[[The Price Is Right (1956 AmericanU.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' (1956–1963; not to be confused with the [[The Price Isis Right (AmericanU.S. game show)|current version]])
*''[[Queen for a Day]]'' (1956–1960)
*''The Ralph Edwards Show'' (1952)
*''[[Reach for the Stars (game show)|Reach for the Stars]]'' (1967)
*''[[Remember this Date]]'' (1950–1951)
*''[[Sale of the Century (U.S. game show)|Sale of the Century]]'' (1969–1973, 1983–1989; [[Temptation (2007 American game show)|revival]] aired in 2007–2008)
*''[[Say When!!]]'' (1961–1965)
*''[[Scattergories (game show)|Scattergories]]'' (1993)
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*''[[Snap Judgment (game show)|Snap Judgment]]'' (1967–1969)
*''Split Personality'' (1959–1960)
*''[[Stumpers (game show)|Stumpers!]]'' (1976)
*''[[Password Plus and Super Password|Super Password]]'' (1984–1989)
*''[[Three for the Money]]'' (1975)
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*''[[To Say the Least]]'' (1977–1978)
*''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' (1990–1991; revived by ABC for primetime in 2016)
*''[[Treasure Hunt (AmericanU.S. game show)|Treasure Hunt]]'' (1957–1959)
*''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' (1956–1965)
*''[[Twenty- One (game show)|Twenty-One]]'' (1956–1958; revived by NBC for primetime in 2000)
*''[[What's This Song?]]'' (1964–1965)
*''[[Wheel of Fortune (AmericanU.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' (1975–1989, 1991; currently airs in syndication)
*''[[The Who, What, or Where Game]]'' (1969–1974)
*''[[Win, Lose or Draw]]'' (1987–1989)
*''[[Winner Take All (game show)|Winner Take All]]'' (1952)
*''[[Winning Streak (AmericanU.S. game show)|Winning Streak]]'' (1974–1975)
*''[[The Wizard of Odds]]'' (1973–1974)
*''Word for Word'' (1963–1964)
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*''A Closer Look with Faith Daniels'' (1991–1993)
*''Club 60'' (1957–1958)
*''[[The Court of Human Relations#Television|The Court of Human Relations]]'' (1959)
*''Cover to Cover'' (1991)
*''Dave and Charley'' (1952)
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*''[[Here's Hollywood]]'' (1960–1962)
*''Hollywood Today with Sheilah Graham'' (1955)
*''[[Home (1954 TV programseries)|Home]]'' (1954–1957)
*''It's a Problem'' (1952)
*''It's Time for Ernie'' (1951)
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*''The Kate Smith Hour'' (1950–1954)
*''Kovacs on the Corner'' (1952)
*''[[Today (American TV program)|Later Today]]'' (1999–2000)
*''[[Leeza]]'' (1993–1999)
*''Life With Linkletter'' (1969–1970)
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*''Welcome Travelers'' (1952–1954)
*''The World at Home'' (1955)
 
===Acquired syndicated sitcoms programs===
*''[[Alice (American TV series)|Alice]]'' (1984-1993)
*''[[All in the Family]]'' (1976-1982)
*''[[Barney Miller]]'' (1980-1984)
*''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' (1974-1983)
*''[[Flo]]'' (1985-1987)
*''[[Good Times]]'' (1979-1987)
*''[[The Jeffersons]]'' (1979-1992)
*''[[Happy Days]]'' (1979-1989)
*''[[It's a Living]]'' (1985-1989)
*''[[Laverne & Shirley]]'' (1984-1988)
*''[[Love, American Style]]'' (1975-1984)
*''[[Mama's Family]]'' (1987-1995)
*''[[Mork & Mindy]]'' (1981-1986)
*''Rosie'' (1987-1995)
*''[[Webster (TV series)|Webster]]'' (1989-1995)
*''[[What's Happening!!]]'' (1980-1984)
*''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' (1981-1994)
 
==Executives==
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| [[Lin Bolen]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 1972–1976 || Served as head of writer development from 1968 to 1975. Bolen was appointed Vice President of Daytime Programming in 1972. She became the first female Vice President of Programming at a TV network and took NBC to #1 in the national Nielsen ratings. In 1975 Bolen expanded ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' and ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'' to an hour-long, which attracted new viewers and became hits with young women. Bolen cancelled the fifteen-year run of game show ''[[Concentration (game show)|]]''Concentration'']] in early 1973 to replace it with game show ''[[PDQ (game show)|PDQBaffle]]'', which ran one year, in order to increase ratings of younger female audiences as daytime and late-night were seen as NBC's profit center at that time, and advertisers wanted programs that attracted young women. Bolen also ended the eleven-year run of ''[[Jeopardy!]]'', feeling its demographics were old. The show's creator and producer [[Merv Griffin]] did not wish to change the show's format making Bolen commission a new game show from Griffin, ''[[Wheel of Fortune (AmericanU.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'', which debuted on January 6, 1975, and was an immediate ratings hit; Jeopardy! would later be revived in 1984. Bolen departed NBC Daytime in the spring of 1976 while it was still #1 to form her own Production Company, "Lin Bolen Productions, Inc.".
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| [[Fred Silverman]] || President of Daytime Programming || 1978–1982 || Retooled ''Lovers and Friends'' and replaced it with ''For Richer, For Poorer'' – which lasted a short while; ''L&F/FRFP'' was a replacement for the cancelled ''[[Somerset (TV series)|]]''Somerset'']]; changed the line-up consisting of three soaps, ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', ''[[The Doctors (1963soap TV seriesopera)|The Doctors]]'' & ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]''; expanded ''Another World'' to 90 minutes which coincided with the death of character John Randolph ([[Michael M. Ryan]]); had to cut back ''AW'' to 60 minutes (from 90 minutes) to make room for another one of ''Another World'''s spinoff shows, ''[[Texas (TV series)]]''; canceled ''[[Password Plus and Super Password|Password Plus]]'' to make room for the relocating ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'', and canceled ''[[The Doctors (1963soap TV seriesopera)|The Doctors]]'' & ''Texas'' on December 31st, 1982, right before he left NBC.
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| [[Earl Greenburg]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 1981–1983 ||
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| Susan D. Lee || Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming || 1983–2000 || Began in 1983 while having second-in-command vice presidents working alongside of her throughout her tenure with NBC Daytime. In 1996, there was uproar when ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'' killed off the character of Frankie Frame. Word had it that both Susan Lee and then-Executive Producer [[Jill Farren Phelps]] chose Frankie as the next victim in the show's stalker storyline while then-head writer [[Margaret DePriest]] ran with the idea and crafted the excessively violent murder for Frankie.
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| [[Brian Frons]] || [[Vice President]] of Daytime Programming || 1983–1991 || Under his leadership of NBC Daytime, he brought in several new game shows such as ''Dream House'', ''GO!'', ''Hit Man'', ''Hot Potato'', ''The Match Game – Hollywood Squares Hour'', ''Time Machine'', ''Your Number's Up'', and ''Wordplay'' – all were canceled due to low ratings and neither lasted more than just one season. The only games that would make it pass season 1 or more were ''Sale of The Century'' (1983–1989; revival of the 1969–73 original, which also aired on NBC), ''Super Password'' (1984–1989), ''Classic Concentration'' (1987–91) and ''Scrabble'' (1984–1993). He canceled the long running daytime version of ''[[Wheel of Fortune (AmericanU.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' (1975–1989). He also added a new soap opera ''[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]'' (1984–1993). He canceled ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'' in December 1986, after it was on NBC for 4 years. Frons previously work for ''Search For Tomorrow'', while working as the head for [[CBS Daytime]]. Frons appeared as God on ''Santa Barbara'' in a dream sequence involving Mason Capwell ([[Lane Davies]]). He helped ''Santa Barbara'' garner three daytime emmys for best drama series and brought the short-lived soap ''[[Generations (AmericanU.S. TV series)|Generations]]'' (1989–1991).
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| [[John Rohrbeck]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 1991–1996 || Gave ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'' another shot to improve ratings and offered them an extension on their contract and instead first, ''[[Generations (AmericanU.S. TV series)|''Generations'']]'' was canceled in 1991 and then ''Santa Barbara'', 2 years later in 1993.
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| [[Don Ohlmeyer]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 1996–1999 || Brought soap opera ''[[Sunset Beach (TV series)|Sunset Beach]]'', canceled ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'' and replaced it with ''[[Passions]]'' in July 1999.
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| [[Sheraton Kalouria]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 2000–2005 || Appointed in the spring of 2000 to replace outgoing longtime Senior Vice President Susan Lee. Kalouria had previously worked on ABC Daytime as Vice President of marketing and promotion of daytime since 1998. Kalouria new job with NBC Daytime was to head development and strategic planning for ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' and ''[[Passions]]''.
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| [[Jeff Zucker]] || President of Daytime Programming || 2000–2007 || Canceled the soap ''Passions'' and sent it to [[DirecTVDirect TV]]'s 101 Channel in 2007. Made a statement about ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' in 2007 that the show would most likely not "continue past 2009".
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| [[Annamarie Kostura]] || Vice President of Daytime Programming || 200*–2007 || Still in the position by June 2007
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| Bruce Evans || Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming || 2007–present || Promoted to Senior Vice President on Monday, February 4, 2007. Mr. Evans had already been working at NBC in different positions for several years by the time of his promotion. Mr. Evans previously served as Vice President, Current Series, since July 2000. Among the shows he oversaw included ''[[Heroes (AmericanU.S. TV series)|Heroes]]'', ''[[Law & Order]]'', ''[[Medium (TV series)|Medium]]'', ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', and ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]''. He served as a Director of Primetime series since July 1998 and a manager of Primetime since August 1997. In August 1996, he began his program executive career at NBC as an Entertainment Associate after his job as a coordinator in the same department. In his new position, Evans handles many of NBC's current series as well as having responsibility as head of the daytime programming that is included under Current Series, while also serving as a liaison for [[Paula Madison]], Executive Vice President, Diversity, NBC Universal & Company Officer, General Electric, and her staff as they look to increase diversity in front of as well as behind the camera on NBC's shows. At the time of his promotion, NBC was a month away from deciding on whether to keep or drop ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', however the opportunity was seen as the ticket to installing new life in the show. Days was renewed and remains on air to date while Evans decided to cancel lowest rated soap ''[[Passions]]''.
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nbc.com/daytime Official website] (from the [[Internet Archive]] [[Wayback Machinemachine]])
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