CBS Daytime


CBS Daytime is a division within CBS that is responsible for the daytime television programming block on the CBS Television Network's late morning and early afternoon schedule. The block has historically encompassed soap operas and game shows.
The official website of CBS Daytime was shut down in March 2012 and is no longer online, though network promotional advertising continues to refer to daytime programming under the branding.

Schedule

NOTE: All times listed are in Eastern time.
10:00 am – 11:00 amLet's Make a Deal or local programming*
11:00 am – 12:00 pmThe Price Is Right
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmThe Young and the Restless*
1:30 pm – 2:00 pmThe Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 pm – 3:00 pmThe Talk

CBS affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones, and in Alaska and Hawaii air this schedule one hour earlier though local schedules may differ over all time zones.

Game shows

''[Let's Make a Deal]''

''[The Young and the Restless]''

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Soap operas

Despite little genre output when compared to NBC and ABC, CBS is the last remaining Big Three broadcast network to carry daytime game shows. While NBC and ABC were still producing several game shows in daytime, CBS gave up on the format during the 1967–68 season. From 1968 until March 1972, the network carried no game shows. However, as part of CBS's "rural purge" effort to lure wealthier suburban viewers, CBS executive Fred Silverman commissioned the game show Amateur's Guide to Love. Hosted by Gene Rayburn, the show ran from March 27 to June 23.
Despite the failure of Amateur's Guide, Silverman commissioned three other games for debut on September 4 – The New Price Is Right, Gambit, and The Joker's Wild – to replace the reruns seen in the daytime slots up to this point. All were major hits, and more games were added as time went on; Joker ended in 1975 and Gambit in 1976, but both have spawned revivals. The Price Is Right has aired continuously in daytime on CBS since its debut.
Currently, CBS carries two network games: The Price Is Right and a revival of Let's Make a Deal which debuted in 2009. Prior to Deal, the last game on CBS was the Ray Combs-hosted revival of Family Feud, which aired from 1988 to 1993.
Source: www.daytimeconfidential.com. CBS Daytime is no more.

Notable profiles

Soderberg

is an American TV writer. He was born in Lakewood, Ohio and died in Santa Barbara, California in 1996.
Career: In 1969, he co-wrote the teleplay for an unsold television pilot called Shadow Man about a man who has plastic surgery and assumes the identity of a multi-billionaire to do good for all humanity.
He has thirteen credits to his name, including being the Head Writer of CBS Daytime's As the World Turns, One Life to Live, General Hospital and Guiding Light.
Awards/Nominations: He has received three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Calhoun

is an American television writer, producer and director.
He graduated from the University of Maryland then went on to serve three years in the U.S. Navy. He was a homosexual.
His credits include Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World and Texas.
He has garnered 8 Daytime Emmy Award nominations. His first nomination in 1979 was shared with Ira Cirker, Melvin Bernhardt, and Paul Lammers.

[Peter Frisch]

is an American TV and theatre producer and director.
He received his M.F.A. in stage direction from Carnegie Mellon. As a nationally recognized teacher and coach, Peter has held faculty posts at Carnegie, The Juilliard School, Harvard University, Boston University, Cal Arts, and UCLA. He has taught and coached professional actors and directors in New York and Los Angeles over the last forty years.
Prior to coming to Santa Barbara, Frisch served as Producer on The Young and the Restless for CBS Daytime. He came to the show directly from Pittsburgh and a six-year stint as Head of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious School of Drama where he also taught and directed for the mainstage. Moonlighting, he also directed seventeen events for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, working with musicians such as Mariss Jansons, Marvin Hamlisch and Rolando Villazon.
During the past 35 years, Peter has directed over 160 productions in the New York and regional theatre, including a full range of classic and contemporary plays, cabaret and opera. He has been Producing Director of the Hyde Park Festival Theatre, Resident Director with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Artistic Director of American Playwrights Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Peter received a Joseph Jefferson Award for the Chicago premiere of American Dreams and the Outer Circle Award for My Papa's Wine on New York's Theatre Row. At American Playwrights Theatre, his collaboration with Larry L. King led to a 1988 Helen Hayes Award for The Night Hank Williams Died. Also at APT, he won an inaugural Kennedy Center/American Express Grant for his production of Speaking In Tongues, about controversial film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Previously in Los Angeles, Peter served as a Producer on Fox Network's Tribes.
Frisch has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Awards and served as a board member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. He is an enthusiastic amateur musician and has been published in a variety of journals from Stereo Review to The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs.

CBS Daytime slogans

Because of a quirk in The Price Is Right from 1975 during the experimental run at a one-hour format in September that became final that November, that show's ratings in daytime are split into first half and second half segments.