It’s a good thing soap opera fans are used to waiting. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced that the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards is being moved from its summer berth to some time in October — the change in schedule made necessary by the decision to up the News & Documentary Awards show from September to June.

Daily Drama News: The 52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Are On The Move

NATAS President and CEO Adam Sharp said in a statement: “For nearly half a century, the News & Documentary Emmys have honored the best in broadcast journalism and documentary programming. Moving the ceremony earlier in the Emmy schedule shines a brighter light on the timely nature of the incredible content being recognized.”

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* To what does Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott) ascribe her continuing run on The Youg and the Restless (42 years and counting)? In an interview with Woman’s World, she offered: “I feel like I speak for women of a certain age and represent on television normal women across the world—I was going to say America, but everywhere, really.”

Reflecting on her tenure — which began in June, 1982 — Maitland mused: The family had a cosmetics company, and here was this little round, plain girl as the youngest child. She was always in competition with her beautiful older sister who went into the family business, where she didn’t fit. It was so multi-dimensional and sort of tragic . . . but when she found her own way, [it was] revelatory.

“Our little Traci grew up, and I am so happy I was there for every minute of it. Every time I have a week off, I honestly think I’m out of show business, but I don’t think a year ever went by that I didn’t work. It has been my tremendous honor to play this very unusual character for all of these years.”

* Congratulations are due Greg Salmon on his promotion to casting director at The Young and the Restless. Salmon broke into daytime via All My Children after a stint as a casting associate at Law & Order. After the ABC sudser’s cancellation, Salmon followed its legendary casting director Judy Blye Wilson to Y&R.

He started with the bad: his meet and greet has been delayed until April. “I need another couple of months. There have been some developments in my life and I have to address them,” he explained. “I’ve been in a really, really expensive litigation that I have to get out of right now because my family health situation is getting complicated. So yeah, I need some time.”

“On a slightly more positive note, I’ve been working on a new iteration of the website so the website that is in place right now is the very first iteration of the website that we’ve had that worked, so it’s very bare bones and it kind of doesn’t make much sense and stuff like that, so I built a new one and it’s gonna have space for a bunch of stuff.”

What’s more, “Life has been really hard for a really long time and I’m doing the best I can. 2025 is shaping up to be a tough year, I think. And I’m just kind of trying to brace myself, shall we say…Lawsuits and medical expenses are psychotically expensive, even my resources have limits. A significant amount of what I’ve managed to collect over the last 10 years or so will have been expunged….

“[There] might be some film and TV stuff on the horizon. I don’t know, we’ll see. I got a lot of emails and a lot of phone calls and things like that out right now, but Hollywood is an industry of talkers, so who knows?”

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