7th Daytime Emmy Awards

7th Daytime Emmy Awards
DateWednesday, June 4, 1980
LocationStudio 8H, 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Presented byNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Hosted byEd McMahon and Susan Seaforth Hayes
Highlights
Outstanding Drama SeriesGuiding Light
Outstanding Game ShowThe $20,000 Pyramid and Hollywood Squares (tie)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkNBC
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The 7th Daytime Emmy Awards were held in 1980 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1979). The seventh awards included a cameo appearance category, giving an award to a memorable soap cameo. Six awards were given.

The ceremony was telecast at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 on NBC. It preempted Another World, which was a 90-minute program at the time.

Winners in each category are in bold.