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We now have the official word on who will be flying to Sin City to present at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Well, the first group of presenters, this is.

Daytime Emmy Award nominees Rachael Ray ("The Rachael Ray Show"), Zack Conroy ("The Bold and the Beautiful") and Jonathan Jackson ("General Hospital") as well as Dr. Travis Stork, Dr. Drew Ordon, Dr. Jim Sears and Dr. Lisa Masterson from the Daytime Emmy-nominated show, "The Doctors" are among those selected to present.

Other presenters will include Rebecca Budig ("All My Children"), Sharon Case ("The Young and the Restless"), Michael Easton ("One Life to Live"), Jon Hensley ("As The World Turns"), Kelley Menighan Hensley ("As The World Turns"), Susan Lucci ("All My Children"), Chris Massey ("Zoey 101"), Kyle Massey ("Cory in the House"), Cameron Mathison ("All My Children"), Kimberly Matula ("The Bold and the Beautiful"), Laura McKenzie ("Laura McKenzie's Traveler...

CANNES -- One of the more unusual success stories to emerge at MIPCOM, the big international TV market this week, was the sales push by Los Angeles-based independent Associated Television International for its new slate of HDTV programming. David McKenzie, president of the company since 1978, said he made a decision last year to produce all of the production-distribution outfit's programming in hi-def -- including the travel show hosted by his wife, Laura McKenzie, Laura McKenzie's Traveler. He called it "the best decision I made in my life," as a barrage of customers sought out quality hi-def programming at the market. "There are a lot of quotas to be filled, especially in Australia," he said. Australian consumers are taking to the hi-def technology faster than in the U.S., where "there is still not a huge demand," McKenzie said.