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  • Daytime Emmy Awards 2014: Kathy Griffin Hosts, Live Stream

    The Daytime Emmy Awards 2014 take place today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Kathy Griffin is hosting this year’s event. Soap operas and daytime talk shows lead the pack of nominations, along with news programs and game shows–but who do you think will win?

    Here’s a rundown of the nominations.

    In the category for Outstanding Talk Show Host the nominees include Dr. Mehmet Oz for The Dr. Oz Show, Katie Couric for Katie, Rachael Ray for Rachael Ray, Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Taylor, and Sheryl Underwood for The Talk, and Whoopi Goldberg, Jenny McCarthy, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters for The View.

    In the Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment category the nominees include The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live! With Kelly and Michael, Rachael Ray, The View, and The Talk.

    The Outstanding Talk Show/Informative category includes the following Daytime Emmy Awards 2014 nominees: The Chew, The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Phil, and The Steve Harvey Show.

    The Outstanding Morning Program nominees are CBS Sunday Morning, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, and The TODAY Show.

    In the category for Outstanding Travel Programs the nominees are Awesome Adventures, Curious Traveler, Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild, and Ocean Mysteries With Jeff Corwin.

    Outstanding Entertainment News Program nominees include Access Hollywood, E! News, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and TMZ.

    Nominees in the Outstanding Game Show category include The American Bible Challenge, The Chase, Jeopardy!, Let’s Make A Deal, The Price is Right, and Wheel of Fortune.

    The remainder of the nominees are for various facets of the daytime drama or soap opera world–from best actor and actress to younger actor and younger actress. Four daytime dramas are vying for the Emmy in the Outstanding Drama Series category, and those include The Bold & The Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, and The Young & The Restless.

    Sadly the Daytime Emmy Awards 2014 won’t be televised, however you can still check out the event via a live stream.

    Are you a daytime television viewer? Be it a soap opera, game show, or news program, is there a show you’d like to see win at the Daytime Emmy Awards 2014?

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  • Katie Couric: No Third Season for Talk Show

    Katie Couric’s talk show has been cancelled in what the network is calling a mutual decision. Word came Thursday that ABC will continue production of Katie through June of 2014, however at that time her talk show will end. Katie has hosted news or talk shows on all three major television networks in the past couple of decades.

    Among Katie’s most famous titles was co-anchor of The TODAY Show. A beloved personality, Couric lent her sincerity and gentle kindness to a world wrought with frightening and often tragic news. She went on be the first woman ever to host the CBS Evening News, and then over to ABC where she presently hosts Katie.

    Reuters reports that in 2014 Couric will make yet another monumental move–this time away from TV and on to Internet news, when she joins Yahoo as a global news anchor.

    The really is very little remaining that Katie Couric hasn’t already done.

    Katie tweeted her staff following confirmation of the show’s cancellation.

    There isn’t much that Katie Couric touches that doesn’t leave a profound impact on her viewers. Her work with Yahoo next year will likely yield similar results. And to top it all off, Katie is going places no other top-tiered news personality has ever gone.

    Yahoo clearly expects big things in its collaboration with Katie. Certainly her fans do, too.

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  • Katie Couric Admits That Her Report On HPV Was Too Anti-Vaccine

    Having taken a fair amount of criticism from the media and the science community, Katie Couric says she regrets spending too much time talking about the rare adverse side effects from HPV vaccinations instead of acknowledging the HPV vaccine’s overwhelming success.

    On Tuesday the talk show host apologized in an opinion piece for the Huffington Post.

    “Last week we devoted several segments on my TV talk show to the issues surrounding the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine. Learning about this relatively recent preventive measure is tremendously important, and I felt it was a subject well worth exploring.” Couric wrote. “We simply spent too much time on the serious adverse events that have been reported in very rare cases following the vaccine. More emphasis should have been given to the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccines.”

    Couric’s program had insinuated that the HPV vaccine was far from being safe and featured spine chilling stories from two mothers that attributed negative experiences to the vaccine. One mother claimed the vaccine killed her daughter while another mother claimed the vaccine caused her daughter to experience nausea and fatigue. Couric’s report featured only one pro-vaccine guest – Dr. Mallika Marshall and thus appeared lopsided in its critique.

    Some critics such as Politico’s Tara Haelle, claimed that Couric resorted to “scaremongering” in an effort to boost her program ratings, while Time’s Alexandra Sifferlin compared Couric to Jenny McCarthy. McCarthy is a former Playboy model and co-host of  “The View” who has also been criticized for her anti-vaccine reporting. Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik disparaged Couric’s anti-vaccination report, saying “Daytime talk shows like Couric’s thrive on conflict and controversy, but injecting doubt and emotionalism into important medical discussions and removing science from the arena is playing with fire.”

    However, Couric said that it was never her intention to misrepresent medical and scientific facts. In fact, Couric has been a strong advocate for research related to disease. She did, however,  feel that problems caused by the HPV vaccine had to be highlighted.

    “As a journalist, I felt that we couldn’t simply ignore these reports. That’s why we had two mothers on the show who reported adverse reactions after their daughters had been vaccinated for HPV,” she wrote.

    Nonetheless, Couric acknowledged that the benefits of the HPV vaccine far outweigh its risks. She also admitted that she had both her daughters vaccinated for HPV.

    Is HPV Vaccine Safe?

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  • Katie Couric Leaving Television for the Internet?

    (image)Katie Couric is reportedly in negotiations to end her contract with ABC News in order to join Yahoo, where she will host a streaming interview show that will be aired on the company’s website.

    According to an ABC News executive who requested anonymity before talks were complete, said that this move would be a bold one for Couric, but one that is too good to pass up.

    The 56-year-old, special correspondent for ABC news, has been a fixture in broadcast journalism for over 20 years. She started her network career at NBC, where she charmed American audiences alongside Matt Lauer on the Today Show. She later moved to CBS and eventually landed at ABC.

    Couric is in her second year of a three-year contract with ABC. Her show Katie has had high ratings, but those have been slipping as of late. According to The New York Times, the show could continue beyond the current season even if Couric leaves ABC.

    A spokesman for Couric declined comment.

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