VanessaReardon

Does it matter if you’re added to the opening credits if you’re not on contract? Y&R is a MESS! Everyone is asleep at the wheel. On Tuesday’s show, they gave Josh Griffith a co-executive producer credit - not once but TWICE! No one at the show is paying attention. What is happening at Y&R? Low ratings, terrible editing. Someone needs to step in and FIX Y&R. 

Y&R has serious ratings problems. The show skews so old. They have a million and a half more viewers than GH, but they only beat GH by a few thousand women 18-49? And B&B beats Y&R in women 18-49. Yikes. The median age of a Y&R viewer must be about 89. Y&R is in deep crap. 

Agreed. Y&R is so BAD right now. A snore. Nothing is interesting or worth watching. Changes need to be made ASAP. 

So in the Dec 1980 Daytime TV ratings, Texas bumped Another World from the Top 10. I don’t know which week these ratings are from. 

sorry. I’m 90 going on 70. Talk about old! 

Happy Anniversary to Texas! 39 years ago. 

Griffith wants to tell the stories that JFP said NO to back in 2013. Morina doesn’t have the balls to say no to him. Look at the ratings. They are a disaster. 

Remind me again why Kevin and Michael are having their scenes in the Chancellor Mansion? This show has gone to crap. 

28 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

I think we just have to realize that it doesn’t matter who they hire or fire. The economics for daytime soaps don’t make sense anymore.

You’re right. I don’t get how the remaining soaps are staying on the air. Demos are the most important number and every remaining soap has lower demos than the past cancelled soaps. (OLTL, AMC, ATWT, GL) Even when GL was cancelled, it had more women 18-49 viewers than Y&R has today. 

Steve Kent and Angelica McDaniel can hire and fire all the regimes they want (how many have there been????) McDaniel’s interference has been a cancer to Y&R. Why doesn’t anyone higher up at CBS see that? They constantly change regimes and ratings fall even lower. But McDaniel is the one constant at CBS. Fire her and let the producers and writers be creative and not stifled with her cancerous interference. 

I think it’s a stretch to blame Y&R’s ratings lows on the Dtv blackout because as others have pointed out, it didn’t start until after this ratings period. B&B, also on CBS, gained in all of the demos this week so why weren’t they affected? Y&R just plain sucks right now. That’s is why they are hitting new lows. 

If you’re a writer and you can’t come up with a storyline, perhaps you’re in the wrong profession. 

Josh Griffith failed as headwriter twice before this current disastrous run. A writer can’t think of a story???? Seriously? No wonder the show is in deep trouble and ratings sink to new lows week after week.

I hope the execs in charge at Y&R don’t wonder why the ratings are sinking faster than the titanic. It’s so clear that their stupid decision making such as this is why viewers are tuning out. 

I realize that these ratings are from the end of 1979, but I’m putting these in the 80’s thread based on the Daytime TV issue date. The magazine did not specify which weeks these ratings represent. 

IF Goddard had any influence in aborting the Cane/Traci story then whoever allowed him to dictate story should be fired. Tony and Josh should have had the balls to stand up to him and remind him that he is an actor. His job is to act out the script, not dictate story. This is one of the many many many reasons why soaps are dying. Its hard to watch the slow death of a genre.

I’ll definitely keep posting. I think I’m going to move the next set of ratings into the 80’s thread. While I know that the ratings are a few months behind, the Daytime TV issue for the next set of ratings was January, 1980, so I’ll go with that. 

I don’t follow Jamey Giddens on social media but I am curious as to whether or not he has addressed the fact that his show has lost 50% of its viewers in just a few weeks. Giddens criticized every soap on the air and he should be called out for not retaining his audience. Welcome to the big leagues Jamey. A 50% loss in viewers in 4 weeks is embarrassing. It’s not so easy, is it Jamey? 

It was a mistake to hire Josh Griffith for a third time. Did he lock himself in his office after these poor ratings? 

While I’m not sure exactly what week the ratings represent, the 12/79 issue of Daytime TV shows that The Doctors bumped Another World out of the Top 10. 

@khan Y&R is so wierd these days. It’s like Griffith wants to revisit 2013 and play out the stories he couldn’t write when he had his breakdown. Meanwhile, it is leading the show to its lowest viewership ever. The viewers have moved past 2013. Josh should move on. He won’t last long with these numbers. 

Why Y&R thought that hiring Griffith again would be a good idea given his past failures, is a head scratcher. Their all time low viewership is well deserved. The show is at its worst ever.