[Toups]

If you're going to copy/paste, please link. Thank you.

Numbers are based on Live+Same Day ratings

Ratings for the week March 16-20, 2009

(Compared to Last Week/Compared to Last Year)

Total Viewers
1. Y&R 5,116,000 (+23,000/-406,000)
2. B&B 3,299,000 (-231,000/-796,000)
3. DAYS 2,986,000 (+288,000/+36,000)
4. AMC 2,699,000 (+81,000/+184,000)
5. OLTL 2,664,000 (-20,000/+16,000)
6. GH 2,646,000 (-101,000/-342,000)
7. ATWT 2,532,000 (-148,000/-666,000)
8. GL 2,133,000 (-127,000/-534,000)


HH
1. Y&R 3.6/12 (same/-.3)
2. B&B 2.4/8 (-.1/-.5) <--------- ties low rating
3. DAYS 2.2/7 (+.2/same)
4. AMC 2.0/7 (+.1/same)
4. OLTL 2.0/7 (same/same)
4. GH 2.0/6 (-.1/-.3) <---------- ties low rating
7. ATWT 1.8/6 (-.2/-.5)
8. GL 1.5/5 (-.2/-.4)


Women 18-49 Viewers
1. Y&R 1,100,000 (-14,000/-185,000)
2. DAYS 917,000 (+81,000/+48,000)
3. GH 834,000 (-54,000/-174,000)
4. OLTL 796,000 (-11,000/-46,000)
5. AMC 773,000 (+45,000/+7,000)
6. B&B 711,000 (-62,000/-295,000)
7. ATWT 646,000 (-30,000/-255,000)
8. GL 537,000 (-32,000/-294,000)


Women 18-49 Rating
1. Y&R 1.7/11 (same/-.3)
2. DAYS 1.4/9 (+.1/+.1)
3. GH 1.3/8 (same/-.2)
4. OLTL 1.2/8 (same/-.1)
4. AMC 1.2/7 (+.1/same)
6. B&B 1.1/7 (-.1/-.4)
7. ATWT 1.0/6 (same/-.4)
8. GL 0.8/5 (-.1/-.5)


Girls 12-17 Viewers
1. DAYS 52,000 (+22,000/-3,000)
2. OLTL 42,000 (+1,000/-4,000)
3. GH 36,000 (-17,000/-25,000)
4. Y&R 30,000 (+4,000/-3,000)
5. B&B 24,000 (+10,000/-10,000)
5. GL 24,000 (+1,000/-23,000)
7. ATWT 22,000 (+9,000/-3,000)
8. AMC 17,000 (same/-21,000)


Women 18-34 Rating
1. Y&R 1.1/11 (-.1/same)
2. DAYS 1.0/9 (same/+.1)
2. GH 1.0/8 (+.1/-.1)
2. AMC 1.0/7 (+.1/+.2)
5. OLTL 0.9/8 (+.1/same)
6. B&B 0.7/7 (-.1/-.1)
7. ATWT 0.6/6 (-.1/-.2)
8. GL 0.5/5 (same/-.2)


Men 18+ Viewers
1. Y&R 1,242,000 (+23,000/-160,000)
2. B&B 709,000 (-60,000/-304,000)
3. DAYS 649,000 (+128,000/-8,000)
4. ATWT 529,000 (-15,000/-160,000)
5. AMC 517,000 (-17,000/+22,000)
6. OLTL 450,000 (-1,000/-22,000)
7. GL 418,000 (-17,000/-142,000)
8. GH 407,000 (-55,000/-127,000)

----------------------------------------

Day-To-Day Ratings - HH/Total Viewers

AMC
Monday: 2.1/2,922,000
Tuesday: 1.9/2,642,000
Wednesday: 2.0/2,621,000
Thursday: 2.0/2,732,000
Friday: 1.9/2,579,000

ATWT
Monday: 1.9/2,644,000
Tuesday: 1.8/2,449,000
Wednesday: 1.8/2,503,000
Thursday:
Friday:

B&B
Monday: 2.4/3,464,000
Tuesday: 2.4/3,183,000
Wednesday: 2.4/3,250,000
Thursday:
Friday:

DAYS
Monday: 2.2/2,991,000
Tuesday: 2.1/2,753,000
Wednesday: 2.1/2,918,000
Thursday: 2.2/3,199,000
Friday: 2.2/3,068,000

GH
Monday: 2.0/2,793,000
Tuesday: 1.9/2,540,000
Wednesday: 1.8/2,449,000
Thursday: 2.0/2,727,000
Friday: 2.0/2,719,000

GL
Monday: 1.6/2,296,000
Tuesday: 1.5/2,061,000
Wednesday: 1.5/2,044,000
Thursday:
Friday:

OLTL
Monday: 1.9/2,782,000
Tuesday: 2.0/2,620,000
Wednesday: 1.9/2,470,000
Thursday: 2.1/2,819,000
Friday: 1.9/2,629,000

Y&R
Monday: 3.6/5,209,000
Tuesday: 3.7/5,139,000
Wednesday: 3.5/5,001,000
Thursday:
Friday:

----------------------

For the SEASON September 22, 2008 through March 22, 2009

HH
1. Y&R 3.8
2. B&B 2.7
3. GH 2.3
4. DAYS 2.2
5. AMC 2.1
5. OLTL 2.1
7. ATWT 2.0
8. GL 1.6

Women 18-49 Rating
1. Y&R 1.8
2. GH 1.5
2. DAYS 1.5
4. B&B 1.3
4. AMC 1.3
4. OLTL 1.3
7. ATWT 1.1
8. GL 0.9

This post has been edited by Toups: 27 March 2009 - 05:11 PM

[Toups]

DAYS still has two major bombs (the Chloe/Dan affair reveal, and the baby switch reveal) to drop for potential higher ratings. If they stay consistent until those bombs are dropped, a 2.5 in HH and #1 in 18-49, are not out of a the question. Ken Corday better not fuck up and start meddling - just let Tomlin/Whitesell/Higley drive this show!

GH got a 1.8 on Wednesday.

Is anybody keeping track of lowest daily ratings? Angela? I think that could be GH's lowest episode ever.

[rangethatrover]

I'm not shocked that Days hasn't dropped after Dee and Drake's departures. Everyone has their favorite characters, but I don't think the average viewer watches for just one or two characters. The only negatives that come from this is ABC and CBS seeing that they can fire their high-paying vets and not suffer any ratings damage, and possibly Frons reconsidering acquiring Days during its next contract cycle, forcing the cancellation of either AMC or OLTL to make room for it. GH is just painful to watch and it's FINALLY becoming reflected in the ratings. Took a while to register, but people are finally tuning out for good. They need to make some major changes there. As for Y&R, once the Kay kidnapping stuff ended, things were bound to come back to reality. I think mid 3's are now the norm for them, with 4.0 their upper tier when something big happens. I wonder if their ratings decline over the past couple of weeks has something to do with ATWT's and GL's falls.

Everytime I say that ABC will buy Days nobody agrees. I would never want that to happen because they would cancel OLTL- no doubt in my mind, especially now considering AMC's growth and pedigree as a crown jewel. GH could drop to a 1.4 and they would still cancel OLTL first for Days.

[SteveFrame]

It is too funny and I'll bet TPTB for ABC is wondering what the heck is going on with all their Soaps. GH should have been the Soap to get the ratings Days is getting right now. All of ABC Daytime Soaps are just too trashy for me to watch. AMC really didn't have a good week considering they lost 200,000 viewers in HH from last and only gained back 100,000. It's not good at all for ABC Soaps right now. I can't believe Days is kicking GH's butt right now.

But the week before that the ratings for all the shows were exagerated due to the winter storm and so many people being home. We all predicted then that the shows would drop last week and they did - when all those people returned to work.

For AMC to be one of the few shows to gain back any viewers this week is something to be happy about. Plus they didn't lose 200,000 viewers - they only lost 82,000 viewers. They gained back 81,000 of them.

Here are the viewer numbers for the last 4 weeks including this one. For 4 weeks straight they have been up from the year before.

Feb 23-27
AMC 2,634,000 (-95,000/+46,000)

March 2-6
AMC 2,700,000 (+66,000/+141,000) - the week of the winter storm

March 9-13
AMC 2,618,000 (-82,000/+72,000)

March 16-20
AMC 2,699,000 (+81,000/+184,000)

[rangethatrover]

Well looking at those it seems that AMC and OLTL had a slight benefit on Thursday due to the preemptions.
ATWT's ratings sucked all week that it was on, and so did GL's. B&B had 2.4's all across the board Mon-Weds.
GH was the only ABC soap to have a 1.8 that whole week! lol.

But the week before that the ratings for all the shows were exagerated due to the winter storm and so many people being home. We all predicted then that the shows would drop last week and they did - when all those people returned to work.

For AMC to be one of the few shows to gain back any viewers this week is something to be happy about. Plus they didn't lose 200,000 viewers - they only lost 82,000 viewers. They gained back 81,000 of them.

Here are the viewer numbers for the last 4 weeks including this one. For 4 weeks straight they have been up from the year before.

Feb 23-27
AMC 2,634,000 (-95,000/+46,000)

March 2-6
AMC 2,700,000 (+66,000/+141,000) - the week of the winter storm

March 9-13
AMC 2,618,000 (-82,000/+72,000)

March 16-20
AMC 2,699,000 (+81,000/+184,000)

SteveFrame- You would be a wonderful PR person for AMC. You spin the heck outta those ratings and I love it!

[quartermainefan]

DAYS still has two major bombs (the Chloe/Dan affair reveal, and the baby switch reveal) to drop for potential higher ratings. If they stay consistent until those bombs are dropped, a 2.5 in HH and #1 in 18-49, are not out of a the question. Ken Corday better not [!@#$%^&*] up and start meddling - just let Tomlin/Whitesell/Higley drive this show!


Is anybody keeping track of lowest daily ratings? Angela? I think that could be GH's lowest episode ever.

I have no idea what makes ratings rise or fall other than general "is the show boring or not?", but it is so nice that Days has stabilized after such a disheartening couple of years. Once that putz NBC exec announced the show might be canceled, ratings collapsed. I hope somehow the show can inch its way up to B&B ratings and be assured of renewal.

[Scotty]

Well looking at those it seems that AMC and OLTL had a slight benefit on Thursday due to the preemptions.
ATWT's ratings sucked all week that it was on, and so did GL's. B&B had 2.4's all across the board Mon-Weds.
GH was the only ABC soap to have a 1.8 that whole week! lol.

That's funny too....ABC had a 2.0 that day, OLTL a 1.9, and GH a 1.8.

So much for GH being the crown jewel of ABC Daytime.

[CarlD2]

I thought GL was pretty good last week, I wasn't expecting them to drop by -2. Oh well. I guess I should enjoy the show wile it's still on.

[rangethatrover]

That's funny too....ABC had a 2.0 that day, OLTL a 1.9, and GH a 1.8.

So much for GH being the crown jewel of ABC Daytime.

So much for JFP producing an hour of soap opera every day of every year!

Goodnight JFP! Its pink slip time!

[Scotty]

So much for JFP producing an hour of soap opera every day of every year!

Goodnight JFP! Its pink slip time!

But, you know as well as I do what will happen.

GH will probably win once best drama series once again.

[rangethatrover]

As far as GL's future, when is its latest contract ending? Was the April deadline ever really confirmed?

[SteveFrame]

SteveFrame- You would be a wonderful PR person for AMC. You spin the heck outta those ratings and I love it!

Well it is a mixed blessing right now.

I want AMC to survive and all of soaps for that matter. But at the same time I am not as happy about AMC as I was in the latter part of 2008. From Oct to December and even part of February I was in love with AMC again.

January was terrible. March for me has been almost unbearable. There is just so much right now I am not feeling. The wonderful balance that the show had for awhile is gone and there is just way too much Ryan, Zach and Kendall for my liking.

I wanted to point out the truth about the ratings though even though I am not happy about the show.

I keep thinking in the back of my mind if the ratings just went down that they would see we want more of other characters again but at the same time I want to see the show do oaky too.

[Ann_SS]

Wow, Days overtook GH in the 18-49 women demo. They must be melting down at ABC. Be prepared for a new mob war, folks. Let's speculate about the ethnicity of Sonny's new enemies. They are running out of countries. Didn't they already to the Mexicans? Maybe the Colombians or the French are up next. LOL!

[rangethatrover]

But, you know as well as I do what will happen.

GH will probably win once best drama series once again.

But by August, GH could be at a 1.7. Another emmy won't make up for being ABC's LOWEST RATED DAYTIME DRAMA!

[jcar03]

Everytime I say that ABC will buy Days nobody agrees. I would never want that to happen because they would cancel OLTL- no doubt in my mind, especially now considering AMC's growth and pedigree as a crown jewel. GH could drop to a 1.4 and they would still cancel OLTL first for Days.

I think it's not the ABC would not be interested in DAYS its that Ken Corday WOULD NEVER EVER let ABC buy the show. ABC owns all their show outright and Corday would never let that happen. He would see the show die first before that happened.

[Scotty]

But by August, GH could be at a 1.7. Another emmy won't make up for being ABC's LOWEST RATED DAYTIME DRAMA!

No it won't....but GH seems to always get awards it doesn't deserve.

[Ruxton Hills]

As far as GL's future, when is its latest contract ending? Was the April deadline ever really confirmed?

I heard it was renewed for another year. I am thisclose to dropping GL again. It's still the same mess. Grant shouldnt have returned.

[Vee]

This just proves that even when OLTL is stumbling like a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, it is better than GH. Suck it!

And no, this DAYS will be bought [!@#$%^&*] has gotta stop. People been sayin' that for YEARS and it has never happened. Why? Because Kenny Corday burned his bridges and the show is walking dead. Walking. dead. It just looks alive.

This post has been edited by Vee: 26 March 2009 - 11:00 PM

[Y&RWorldTurner]

But by August, GH could be at a 1.7. Another emmy won't make up for being ABC's LOWEST RATED DAYTIME DRAMA!

Even if GH becomes the lowest rated soap on ABC, it will still get a hell of a lot more attention and money from ABC than AMC and OLTL will ever get.

[rangethatrover]

Wow, Days overtook GH in the 18-49 women demo. They must be melting down at ABC. Be prepared for a new mob war, folks. Let's speculate about the ethnicity of Sonny's new enemies. They are running out of countries. Didn't they already to the Mexicans? Maybe the Colombians or the French are up next. LOL!

There's always Mendorra, or my 80's OLTL favorite mythical island- Zaroon!

ABC owns those names outright, so they can be used by any ABC show.

[Scotty]

This just proves that even when OLTL is stumbling like a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome, it is better than GH. Suck it!

The red-headed stepsister finally gets a seat at the big kids table.