As someone who got two CBS affiliates, one at 3 on time and one at 10 a day behind I was angry with the decision. I use to watch the 3 o'clock show and, if the episode was really good, tune intot the 10 am one again and tape it. 10 am was too early to wake up for a show that I knew was on at 3 in the afternoon so I gave up on watching the 10am show.

Fortunately, GL is shown at 3pm here right after ATWT.

People can say what they want but to me, a 3pm timeslot is waay better than a 10am one. How many people are going to get up early or be at home to watch a soap..much less discover one? Even if someone wasn't an ATWT watcher and was watching the soaps GL airs against (GH and Passions), they could still get into GL by channel surfing (I used to do this all the time when I used to watch GH)...something that is very unlikely to happen if someone is watching TV at 10am but not a soap fan.

People can say what they want but to me, a 3pm timeslot is waay better than a 10am one. How many people are going to get up early or be at home to watch a soap..much less discover one? Even if someone wasn't an ATWT watcher and was watching the soaps GL airs against (GH and Passions), they could still get into GL by channel surfing (I used to do this all the time when I used to watch GH)...something that is very unlikely to happen if someone is watching TV at 10am but not a soap fan.

I believe a good number of affiliates air "Dr. Phil" which does very well at 3 and wouldn't give up that slot for "Guiding Light".

At 10am there is no competition, and I do believe that there is an older audience that watches the show at that spot in the morning. I don't think "Guiding Light" would want to rock the boat since they've managed to stay steady while other soaps are going up and down. I think that the 3 o'clock move would be risky. Timeslot changes reek of soap desperation and typically fail. This is a different situation considering that the show has been shown at two different times for a long time.

I guess I'm in the minority in that I'd rather GL air at 10am than 3pm. I always forget about GL and end up turning the TV off after ATWT/Passions, and then turn it on again for the day ahead episode of Passions at 3:30pm. AT 10am, there's nothing on against it that I'd watch, so I'd me more likely to follow it daily, instead of between commercials while watching Passions.

The actor Ian Buchanan made a remark that NYC is an ABC town based, in at least some part, I think, on which of his soap characters he was most often recognized for here (Duke on GH, despite the fact it's further in the past than his B & B stint). Having lived in NYC all my life, I tend to agree with him. The higher profile GH, which also airs at 3pm here, was more of a draw than GL when both were in their prime. These days, GH may not be a monolith anymore but it wouldn't have to be to further decimate the 2nd lowest-rated soap.

Grant Aleksander (ex-Phillip, GL) once remarked that he never gets recognized as Phillip when he is in NYC. However, he does get a surprising amount of people who still recognize him from AMC (where he played the dastardly Alec McIntyre).

BTW, speaking of Pittsburg, GL is going to 10 AM there in the fall. I believe the Baltimore affiliate WJZ is making a similar move.

We have two CBS affiliates. One shows GL at 10, while the other shows it at 3, so we all get two chances to watch the show. When I stood home, I would watch the show at 10 b/c there was nothing else on, and I liked it b/c after watching B&B and ATWT, I wouldn't have wanted to watch yet another hour-long soap.

I'm not sure if moving to 10 is the main reason behind GL's ratings. Now, almost all the other shows' ratings are slipping, yet GL's is almost-always the same. So it doesn't make a lot of sense that the show's ratings wouldn't decrease w/ the rest of them. When GL had a core audience.

The 3 PM slot really didn't fit well w/ GL b/c that's typically a time-slot for "teen" shows. GL still has the stigma of being an "old lady" soap, but it's definitely not that anymore b/c it lost its core audience in 2003-2004, and actually more women over 50 watch the ABC soaps than they do GL. Now, though, I think GL is a better "teen" soap than GH, and even though it doesn't do well w/ the younger demos, I think that the young viewers who watch GL (myself included) can say that the show has/had a very good younger group of actors and storylines for quite some time now.

The CBS soaps are more popular in the South and the Mid-West anyway. Living in the Northeast, I don't know a lot of people who watch CBS soaps, aside from my family. Most of the people I talk to actually watch NBC, and maybe a few watch ABC.

The Baltimore affiliate (WJZ-13) is taking GL off at 3pm and replacing it with Dr. Phil on September 11. I haven't heard anything about where GL is going. though. Knowing WJZ, they'll probably air it at 2am.

Well here in East KY there are two CBS channels one out of lexington and one in Huntington or Charleston,WV(can't remember which one) and GL is shown at 3 pm on both channels right after ATWT.

I personally like the 3 pm spot myself. I am not a morning person.

Yeah I know but...if most CBS affiliates put it on at 3pm, I'm sure the ratings would go up.

not necesarily. I used to be a GL fan a few years back and the ONLY reason I watched it was bc it was at 10 AM. No competition whatsover and its not that early. I actually thought it was the perfect timeslot and was better than the other show's times

It has been that way for years. In most of the country, GL comes on at 10 in the morning.

Actually, not really. Aside from KCBS airing GL at 9 in the morning in the late 90s, all the CBS stations out here on the left coast air GL at 2PM against GH and Passions. Except for KOVR in Sacramento, they haven't aired GL there in a good 15 years!

I agree that GL has turned teen, heck look at the new opening, which is why the 3pm time slot would work good for kids who get out of school. When GL was at the prime, I remember a lot of kids rushing home to watch it. Plus, I have a 10am class so that means I won't be able to watch it!

What is so appealing about Dr.Phil? I find him to be annoying and rude. It's like the same thing. Some husband yells at his wife and Dr.Phil tells the wife she's pretty and the guy's an ass. Boo hoo. If they think he's so good then put him up against Springer and Oprah at 4pm, leaving GL at 3pm! Thanks for all the responses, btw.

That makes upset that NYC would do that to a show which is filmed in the same town. I kind of find it insulting. They should be proud of harvesting the longest running show in history!

It's on at 10 am here in the Detroit, MI area, has been for almost a decade

GL has been at 9am here in Chicago for several years -- opposite Oprah! and Regis & Kelly. If it even gets a 1.0 rating, I'd be shocked. I guess it's better than not on at all. Chicago is definitely an ABC town. Oprah starts off ABC Daytime and pushes up the rest of the schedule. At least, the got rid of the day-behind crap a couple of years ago.

The Baltimore affiliate (WJZ-13) is taking GL off at 3pm and replacing it with Dr. Phil on September 11. I haven't heard anything about where GL is going. though. Knowing WJZ, they'll probably air it at 2am.

You know that GL is *really* in trouble when 2 of its biggest markets (Pittsburg and Baltimore) move the show from its timeslot. I bet Hurricane Katrina didn't help either, considering New Orleans has been the source of GL's highest ratings in the the country.