16th Daytime Emmy Awards

The 16th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 29, 1989 on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1988). The awards aired from 3-5 pm (Eastern time). Again this year, the awards ceremony was a joint presentation of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) on the East Coast and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) on the West Coast. The ceremonies and live telecast was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The non-televised Daytime Emmy Awards presentation for programs and individual achievement, primarily for excellence in creative arts categories, was held four days earlier on June 25.

Winners in each category are in bold. Two winners were recorded in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series category, as a tie was recorded in the race between actresses Debbi Morgan and Nancy Lee Grahn.

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series

• All My Children
• As the World Turns
• General Hospital
• Guiding Light
• Santa Barbara: Jill Farren Phelps, executive producers; Steve Kent, senior supervising producer; Charlotte Savitz; Leonard Friedlander and Julie Hanan Carruthers
• The Young and the Restless: William J. Bell, Edward J. Scott

Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

• David Canary (Adam Chandler and Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
• James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, All My Children)
• Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, Another World)
• Larry Bryggman (Dr. John Dixon, As the World Turns)
• A Martinez (Cruz Castillo, Santa Barbara)

Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

• Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
• Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda Walsh, As the World Turns)
• Marcy Walker (Eden Capwell, Santa Barbara)
• Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series

• David Forsyth (Dr. John Hudson, Another World)
• Joseph Campanella (Harper Deveraux, Days of Our Lives)
• Justin Deas (Keith Timmons, Santa Barbara)
• Quinn Redeker (Brian Romalotti, The Young and the Restless)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series

• Debbi Morgan (Dr. Angela Baxter Hubbard, All My Children)
• Nancy Lee Grahn (Julia Wainwright, Santa Barbara)
• Jane Elliot (Anjelica Deveraux, Days of Our Lives)
• Arleen Sorkin (Calliope Jones, Days of Our Lives)
• Robin Mattson (Gina Blake, Santa Barbara)

Outstanding Young Man in a Daytime Drama Series

• Andrew Kavovit (Paul Ryan, As the World Turns)
• Darrell Utley (Benjy Hawk, Days of Our Lives)
• Justin Gocke (Brandon Capwell, Santa Barbara)

Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series

• Anne Heche (Marley Hudson and Victoria Hudson, Another World)
• Martha Byrne (Lily Walsh, As the World Turns)
• Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio, General Hospital)
• Noelle Beck (Patricia Alden, Loving)

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing

• Another World: Donna M. Swajeski
• Santa Barbara: Peggy O'Shea, Charles Pratt Jr., Anne Howard Bailey, Robert Guza Jr., Courtney Simon, Lynda Myles, Patrick Mulcahey, Gary Tomlin, Josh Griffith, Don Harary
• As The World Turns: Douglas Marland
• Guiding Light

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Directing

• As The World Turns
• The Young and The Restless: Heather Hill, Rudy Vejar, Randy Robbins, and Frank Pacelli, directors; Kathryn Foster and Betty Rothenberg
• Family Medical Center
• Loving
• One Life To Live

Outstanding Game Show

• The $25,000 Pyramid - A Bob Stewart-Sande Stewart Production for CBS (Syn. by 20th Century Fox Television)
• Jeopardy! - A production of Merv Griffin Enterprises (Syn. by King World)
• The Price Is Right - A Mark Goodson Production for CBS
• Wheel of Fortune - A production of Merv Griffin Enterprises for NBC (Syn. by King World)
• Win, Lose or Draw - A Kilne & Friends Production for NBC (Syn. by Buena Vista Television)

Outstanding Game Show Host/Hostess

• Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!)
• Dick Clark (The $25,000 Pyramid)
• Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune)
• Vicki Lawrence Schultz/Bert Convy (Win, Lose or Draw)

References

• "Daytime Emmy Awards". Internet Movie Database. 1989.