GH got a 2.0 on Thursday. They're treading some very dangerous ground.

They might as well start getting what they've deserved for years.

1.9 here we come for GH! And couldn't happen to a more deserving show. But that's just my opinion.

Perhaps once that happens, someone at ABCD will realize that Frons needs to get his walking papers and be in charge of the water coolers and not the ABC line up.

Oh Wow...an ABC press release...LOL

Thursday, April 03, 2008

ABC Television Network

PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - ENTERTAINMENT -

ABC DAYTIME RATINGS (WK OF 3/24)

Fringe Ratings Report: ABC Daytime Programming

Week of March 24-28, 2008

ABC Owns 4 of the Week's Top 5 Daytime Programs

in Women 18-34, Including the No. 1 Show, "General Hospital"

The Week Presidential Candidate Barack Obama Appeared on "The View,

the talker Delivers its Best Ratings in 4 Weeks in Total Viewers & Women 18-49

"The View" Ranks Among Daytime's Top 5 Most-Watched Programs for the 12th Straight Week and Earns Top 5 Rank in Women 18-34 and 18-49

"General Hospital" Defeats Time Period Opponent CBS' "Guiding Light" by a

Solid 30% in Women 18-49, by 66% in Women 18-34 and by 9% in Total Viewers

ABC Daytime

* ABC delivered 4 of the week's Top-5 ranking programs in Daytime in Women 18-34: "General Hospital" (#1T - 1.0 rating/349,000), "The View" (#3T - 0.9 rating/308,000), "One Life to Live" (#5T - 0.8 rating/271,000) and "All My Children" (#5T - 0.8 rating/257,000).

* The week Presidential candidate Barack Obama appeared on "The View," the talker hit a 4-Week high in Total Viewers (3.67 million) and Women 18-49 (889,000) - since week of 2/25/08.

* For the 12th week running, "The View" placed among Daytime's Top 5 most-watched programs in Total Viewers (#4 - 3.7 million), and also earned Top 5 rank in Women 18-34 (#3T - 0.9 rating/308,000) and Women 18-49 (#5T - 1.3 rating/889,000).

* "General Hospital" delivered another dominant win over time period opponent CBS's "Guiding Light" (3:00 - 4:00 p.m.), surpassing the drama this week by 30% in Women 18-49 (1.03 million vs. 792,000), by 66% in Women 18-34 (349,000 vs. 210,000) and by 9% in Total Viewers (2.82 million vs. 2.58 million).

Following are the Daytime Lineup averages, plus Top 5 Programs Ranks - Week of Mar. 24-28, 2008:

DAYTIME RANK: TOTAL VIEWERS WOMEN 18-49 (RTG/000S) No. 1 CBS 4.01 million No. 1 CBS 1.4/945,000 No. 2 ABC 2.85 million No. 2 ABC 1.3/885,000 No. 3 NBC 2.84 million No. 2 NBC 1.3/850,000 TOP 5 DAYTIME PROGRAMS IN WOMEN 18-49 (rank based on rating) Program Net Rtg/000s The Young & the Restless CBS 1.9 /1.26 million General Hospital ABC 1.6/1.03 million Bold and the Beautiful CBS 1.5/969,000 As the World Turns CBS 1.4/901,000 The View ABC 1.3/889,000 Days of Our Lives NBC 1.3/850,000 The Price is Right 1/2 CBS 1.3/820,000 Source: NTI, Live + Same Day, 3/24-3/28/08

Edited April 3, 200817 yr by Soapsuds

ABC spins faster and more per cycle than a damn washing machine. LMAO! OY VEY.

OMG, look at ABC! Fons must be going crazy!!

I doubt Frons cares, but I can't imagine his bosses are very happy. Ad rates must be going down big time. Hopefully someone is waking up and realizing that Frons is a liability for Daytime and that B&E are poison to AMC

Now 18-34 is the key to ABC and not 18-49. The press release sure is pimping that demo...LOL. What happens when they cant even pimp that demo anymore?..LOL

I'm curious how GL with more viewers gets a 1.7 while OLTL with less viewers gets a 1.8:

GL

Friday: 1.7/2,427,000

OLTL

Friday: 1.8/2,282,000

It's amazing how GL is doing better than OLTL when it's shown in different time slots and isn't seen in all markets.

So ATWT is now even beating the view in the key demo

When will ATWT finally start getting a better budget for these increases.

But, the good thing is....

At least the Mob stories on GH are working.

When will ATWT finally start getting a better budget for these increases.

It's a P&G soap, we're lucky we see props on the show still, yet alone an increase in production budget.

Roman, we will be forced to love it! It's Guza's way.

B&E are TWO useless HACK!!!

ABC is pathetic I don't care how they spin things.

So ATWT is now even beating the view in the key demo

When will ATWT finally start getting a better budget for these increases.

It will take a while. You have to remember ATWT was in the bottom of the 18-49 demo for a long time. Only now is it the Top 4 spots. I've got to say the demos are real good for ATWT right now compared to the other soaps.