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Updated with Daytime Creative Arts Emmy winners: General Hospital won outstanding drama while Kelly Clarkson won for best talk show host and best talk show at the 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, held Friday in Los Angeles.

Adding in Saturday’s Creative Arts portion of the Daytime Emmys, Gh won a leading seven Emmys this weekend. The Kelly Clarkson Show won six to lead all talk shows.

Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner hosted Friday’s show that honored Susan Lucci with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Jennifer Nettles performed the Emmy-winning song “Life is Sweet” for the In Memoriam segment that said goodbye to the likes of Jacklyn Zeman, Billy Miller and Bob Barker.

A posthumous Emmy was given to Sonya Eddy, the General Hospital actress who died last summer at the age of 55.

Below are the winners of the Daytime Emmys, with the list of Daytime Creative Arts Emmy winners following.

“General Hospital” and “The Kelly Clarkson Show” were the big winners at the 50th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which were handed out on Friday night in Los Angeles. Veteran daytime-drama actress Susan Lucci, once famous for being nominated for a Daytime Emmy 19 times before she finally won, received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

“General Hospital” was named Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, and also won awards for its directing and for actors Sonya Eddy (who received her award posthumously), Robert Gossett, Eden McCoy and former “Wonder Years” star Alley Mills.

The other two daytime acting awards went to Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Thorsten Kaye from “The Bold and the Beautiful.” Kaye won his first Emmy in his seventh nomination.

“The Kelly Clarkson Show” won the award for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series, while Clarkson won in the Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host category.

“Entertainment Tonight” was named Outstanding Entertainment News Series.

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Non-commercial indie outlet Kcet walked away with the most trophies at Saturday night’s 70th annual Los Angeles Area Emmys with 11 wins, one more than last year. Spanish language outlet Kmex came in close behind with seven wins.

Other winners of the evening included ABC7 and Spectrum SportsNet La, who both nabbed five trophies. In addition, PBS SoCal’s “American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen” was honored as the recipient of the Governors Award. The five-year program will be recognized for its work focusing and maximizing community resources to tackle Southern California’s high school dropout crisis.

Read the complete list of winners below.

Outstanding Director – News

Deya Ceballos, Director

Kvea

Outstanding Writer – News

Mary Harris, Writer

NBC4

Outstanding Hard News Reporting

Robert Kovacik, Reporter

NBC4

Outstanding News Feature Reporting

Pat Harvey, Reporter

CBS2/KCAL9

Nicolette Medina, Producer

Outstanding Editor – News

Jeff MacIntyre, Editor

ABC7

Outstanding Sports Reporting

Patrick O’Neal,...

The 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards were held Saturday, July 28 live from the city of angels, handing out trophies to local programming that made big impacts over the past year.

Kcet led the winners list with 11 trophies, followed closely behind by Kmex with seven and both ABC7 and Spectrum SportsNet La with five each.

The TV Academy announced winners in 47 categories total, including previously announced wins in the individual achievement categories, such as hard news reporting, sports reporting, director, writer, editor and videographer. PBS SoCal’s “American Graduate” won this year’s Governors Award, which was presented by Academy’s chairman and CEO Hayma Washington.

See the complete list of L.A. Area Emmy winners below:

Programming And News Categories

L.A. Local Color

Alta California

(The Migrant Kitchen)

Kcet

Matthew Crotty, Producer

Juan Devis, Executive Producer

Antonio Diaz, Producer

Stef Ferrari, Producer

Ben Hunter, Producer

Kelly Parker, Producer

Independent...