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On 11/23/2022 at 6:14 AM, Chris B said:

The majority of the B&B episodes get around 10,000 views each with some special episodes hitting over 100,000. When you consider the volume of episodes of people finding it over the years, there has to be a good stream of money coming in. All of those episodes are ad supported. 

B&B is still on the air. I was referring to cancelled soaps. Even ABC passed on a reboot of AMC. 

Come on guys. BE REALISTIC. A couple thousand views doesn't mean success. Cancelled soaps will never bring $$ to the owners. They are dead. Gone. 

Sharon Gabet is a gem. She posts several episodes from the early 80's on Facebook (and youtube) and responds to comments. She's a treasure. She has a great memory and tells it like it was. Love love love Sharon Gabet.

3 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

When it comes to today's episode... I think I'll let Mark speak for me 

 

Thank you. I really am trying to be positive about Ron Carlivati, who has a tough job, but then THIS episode happens. Ridiculous.

2 hours ago, Dylan said:

Lauralee Bell posted this. 

 

Dylan, you're behind the times. 

Oh no. Very sad news. He was great on Days and Y&R after his Hogan's Heroes run.

Vee wasn't on the set at that time. SMH.

An incredible loss. Very sad. John Aniston will be missed. 

I cannot wait to watch it all unfold. So funny that the always negative poster who says that Ron Carlivati has no talent posts everything that happened at Day of Days. SMH. 

7 hours ago, RavenWhitney said:

https://deadline.com/2022/11/kevin-conroy-voice-actor-dead-animated-batman-was-66-1235169980/

Sad

Very, very sad news. He will be missed.

Putting sentences in bold doesn't make them true. Sticking to facts, Justin Deas was clearly talking about his time as Buzz on GL, not SB, where they wanted to give him all of the dialogue in 1 episode. The idea was rejected so they instead gave him most of the dialogue for an episode during the 5th Street fire story on GL, which turned out to be about 90 pages of dialogue. Justin was not given 90 pages of dialogue as Keith on SB. 

A simple google search or search of youtube credits of early 80's ATWT will easily show that Betty Rea was casting both ATWT and GL for a time.

And just to correct the misinformation that Justin Deas was almost given a whole episode of dialogue on SB - wrong. Justin was talking about when he was on GL as Buzz. Not surprising. He took over that show. 

1 hour ago, bboy875 said:

Someone posted in these pages years back that she and Jay never married. She became pregnant with their 1st child I believe when she was Texas' headwriter, and supposedly p&g didn't want it known that their headwriter was pregnant out of wedlock so they had her attach his name to her's so everyone would think they were married. 

And yes that radio interview still floors me. I remember in SOD she previewed the remote I think in the Florida Keys as it would be Reva's exit story. Reva was definitely her favorite character, how could she forget she had Reva drive her car off that bridge? 

I can't speak for the legality of Pam and Jay's relationship. They had 2 kids together.

But yeah, Pam totally mis-remembered writing Reva off of GL. 

Pam Long has had a couple of WTF moments/interviews. Despite being credited as Pamela Long Hammer during her first headwriting stint on GL, she later claimed that she was never married to Jay Hammer. And during GL's final week on the air, she gave an interview where she said that she wasn't the one who wrote Reva's post partum depression story that lead to Reva driving off the bridge and Kim Zimmer exiting the show in the summer of 1990. Pam was credited as headwriter into early 1991. 

On 10/26/2022 at 11:40 PM, RavenWhitney said:

Edge of Night mastered many storytelling structures. Henry was doing short, medium and long arcs interspersed with one another way before ABC did it with Port Chuck.  Henry started on the show in 1968 and the show remained 30 min. Cast turnover was huge all the time but Henry masterfully built tentpole characters while killing off or writing out others as part of his amazing plot lines. He had more limitations with Capitol's DC locale and two family structure.

Henry Slesar was amazing on Edge. His subsequent shows were blah. Nick Nicholson left him alone and trusted him at Edge. Maybe Henry had a hard time adjusting to an hour format because his OLTL stint was awful and Capitol wasn't much better even though Capitol was half hour. Conboy probably interfered too much. Henry's Edge was masterful.

Who is Colton Little?

There are alot of people who shouldn't be on the internet.

Ron isn't wrong in his thoughts. 

On 10/13/2022 at 12:32 PM, RavenWhitney said:

Ann's son, Brian, posted a nice tribute and there are some public recent pics of gorgeous and classy Ann!

https://www.facebook.com/brian.granath

Very nice. She was indeed classy. And what a family. Fly high, Ann.

All of this for 8 cents a day!

Ann Flood was a lovely woman. I did meet her Classy, nice, everything that you wanted her to be. Ann will rest in heaven.

WOW!  The threesome scenes were uploaded to another site and WOW were they hot. Very well done, Days. 

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

I think 1978 was the year that ABC's big three had a huge rise and the P&G shows starting tanking. What month did that take place and what lead up to that?

I don't know which week these ratings represent. It was in the May, 1978 issue of Daytime TV and all they said was these are the latest ratings as we went to press. Who knows when they went to press for that issue. At least a couple months before.

13 minutes ago, JoeCool said:

The rise started in late 1978 and 1979 with All My Children hitting No. 1 for the 78/79 season with GH a close second and increased further in 79 and 80. All My Children was an important and vital show to ABC's success than. Most people credit GH but it is AMC. GH did not have the competition of AMC vs. Y & R.

I'm sure the YOU know this Joe, Doug Marland was LONG gone from GH in 1980. So for another poster to credit him for the huge rise of GH in 1980 is just wrong. That person is consistently incorrect and does not research facts. It's annoying. Anyway, happy to provide FACTS. 

Yes!! To get back to the purpose of this thread back on track and get away from the cancer of this board:

The May, 1978 Daytime TV issue had these Top 10 ratings. 

AW 11.1/31

ATWT 10/30

AMC 9.9/31

GL 9.2/27

Y&R 9.1/30

OLTL 8.9/26

SFT 8.7/29

RH 8.6/28

GH 8.3/23

The Doctors 8.2/24

Oh no! Don't encourage another blog. The last one we got incorrectly stated that GH expanded to an hour 2 years before OLTL.

14 hours ago, robbwolff said:

Whatever source that reported December 1, 1975 for GH's expansion to one hour is wrong. As you state, GH and OLTL expanded to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976. According to this source, the GH expansion to one hour occurred in December 1975 -- before it expanded to 45 minutes in July 1976. That doesn't make sense at all.

December 1, 1975 was the date that TEON moved to ABC and ATWT expanded to an hour. Both GH and OLTL expanded to one hour in January 1978.

Thanks Rob for being the voice of facts in the GH/OLTL expansions. It defies logic that someone who claims to be a stickler for facts would post that GH expanded to an hour before expanding to 45 minutes. Fact check, people. It's not that hard to research that both OLTL and GH expanded to 45 minutes on the same day and both expanded to an hour on the same day. Sigh.