ABC's stalwart soap "All My Children" leads the field of nominees for the 32nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, announced Wednesday in New York.

"All My Children" pulled in a total of 18 nominations, including bids for best drama and a lead drama actor mention for Michael Knight.

ABC's "General Hospital," CBS' "Guiding Light" and PBS' "Sesame Street" were next on the list of top nominees with 13 apiece, followed by CBS' "The Young & the Restless" with 12. Syndicated "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and ABC's "The View" were the most-nominated talk shows, with 11 noms apiece. CBS' "As the World Turns" also bagged 11 nominations. Among the networks, ABC led by a wide margin with 53 nominations. Syndicated programs raked in 49 noms, followed by CBS (47), PBS (32), NBC (10) and the Disney Channel (nine). All told, networks in the Disney-ABC Television Group pulled in a whopping 79 bids out of 247 total nominations in this year's Daytime Emmy derby.

"All My Children's" competitors in the race for drama series glory are "As the World Turns," "General Hospital" and "Young & the Restless."

Telepictures Prods.' "Ellen DeGeneres," last year's winner for best talk show, earned another nom in the category and will contend with Paramount/King World Prods.' "Dr. Phil," Buena Vista TV's "Live With Regis & Kelly," ABC's "The View" and SoapNet's "Soap Talk." The contenders for best talk show host are a carbon copy of the talk show category: DeGeneres, Dr. Phil McGraw, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, "Soap Talk's" Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway, and "The View's" Barbara Waiters, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Star Jones and Meredith Vieira.

The game show category featured familiar shows: King World's "Jeopardy!" CBS' "The Price Is Right" and Buena Vista TV's syndicated "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." The game show host category also adhered to the program nominees: Alex Trebek of "Jeopardy!" Bob Barker of "Price" and Vieira of "Millionaire."

PBS' "Postcards From Buster," an animated show that caused a stir last month with an episode that included a reference to a lesbian couple as parents, earned a nom for best children's program, along with PBS' "Zoom" and "Reading Rainbow." Discovery Kids' "Jeff Corwin Unleashed" and NBC's "Endurance: Hawaii" rounded out the category.

In the contest for preschool program, two new TLC programs, "Paz" and "Hi-5," will compete against Nickelodeon's "Blue's Clues" and "Sesame Street."

Noms for best children's animated program went to Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer," PBS' "Arthur," Disney Channel's "Rim Possible" and TLC's "Peep and the Big Wide World" and "Toddworld."

In the drama series acting field, the lead drama actress category is crowded with eight nominees: Martha Byrne of "As the World Turns"; Susan Flannery of CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful"; Nancy Lee Grahn of "General Hospital"; Rim Zimmer of "Guiding Light"; Erika Slezak and Kassie DePaiva of ABC's "One Life to Live"; Juliet Mills of NBC's "Passions"; and Michelle Stafford of "Young & the Restless."

Contending against Knight on the men's side are Roger Howarth...