PBS won a leading 13 Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards, including six for Sesame Street, and recently retired game-show host Bob Barker won his 18th trophy.

CBS's The Price is Right won Thursday night for game-audience participation show, where Barker served as executive producer until he retired last week at age 83.

Bob Parker retired as host of The Price is Right last week.
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In the new category for morning shows, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today tied. Co-anchors Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts of GMA earned trophies, along with Today co-anchors Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Al Roker and Ann Curry.

Sesame Street won for preschool children's series, along with trophies for costume design, directing, multiple camera editing, music direction and sound mixing.

Food Network star Paula Deen won for lifestyle host, while Eartha Kitt was honoured as outstanding performer in an animated program for Disney's The Emperor's New School on the Disney Channel.

Major awards go Friday night

Four new categories for broadband, specifically computers, cellphones and other handheld devices, were created this year. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences teamed with the social networking website MySpace.com to solicit nominations from the public.

NBC's The Office: Accountants won in the comedy category; It's Jerrytime! on Ozone Inc. won in variety; Cyberchase on PBS won in children's; and Satacracy 88 from Itsallinyourhands.com won for drama.

Syndicated shows earned nine awards, with comedian Ellen DeGeneres's talk show taking four in technical categories.

Among the major broadcast networks, ABC and CBS tied with seven, while NBC had five.

The awards were presented for the first time in a single ceremony at the Hollywood & Highland ballroom that combined winners on the East and West Coasts.

Other Daytime Emmys for performances and programs will be awarded Friday at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre during a two-hour telecast on CBS.

Winners are chosen by a panel of their peers in each category.