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Numbers are based on Live+Same Day ratings

Ratings for the week March 31 - April 4, 2008

(Compared to Last Week/Compared to Last Year)

Total Viewers

1. Y&R 5,205,000 (-248,000/-173,000)

2. B&B 3,666,000 (-378,000/-103,000)

3. GH 2,842,000 (+23,000/-430,000)

4. DAYS 2,823,000 (-19,000/+213,000)

5. ATWT 2,795,000 (-348,000/-201,000)

6. OLTL 2,414,000 (-16,000/-487,000)

7. AMC 2,413,000 (-48,000/-596,000) <------ new low

8. GL 2,306,000 (-271,000/-451,000) <------ new low

HH

1. Y&R 3.8/13 (same/-.3) <------- ties low rating

2. B&B 2.7/9 (-.1/-.2)

3. DAYS 2.1/7 (same/same)

3. ATWT 2.1/7 (-.1/-.2)

3. GH 2.1/7 (same/-.4) <--------- ties low rating

6. AMC 1.9/6 (same/-.5) <-------- ties low rating

6. OLTL 1.9/6 (same/-.4) <------- ties low rating

8. GL 1.7/5 (-.1/-.4) <------------- new low rating

Women 18-49 Viewers

1. Y&R 1,123,000 (-134,000/-62,000)

2. GH 1,007,000 (-19,000/-153,000)

3. DAYS 959,000 (+109,000/+86,000)

4. B&B 834,000 (-134,000/+34,000)

5. OLTL 816,000 (-8,000/-178,000)

6. AMC 763,000 (-39,000/-185,000)

7. ATWT 757,000 (-144,000/+32,000)

8. GL 703,000 (-89,000/-57,000)

Women 18-49 Rating

1. Y&R 1.7/12 (-.2/-.1) <--------- ties low rating

2. DAYS 1.5/9 (+.2/+.2)

2. GH 1.5/9 (-.1/-.3)

4. B&B 1.3/8 (-.2/+.1)

5. OLTL 1.2/8 (same/-.3) <-------- ties low rating

5. AMC 1.2/7 (same/-.2)

7. ATWT 1.1/7 (-.3/same)

7. GL 1.1/7 (-.1/-.1)

Girls 12-17 Viewers

1. GL 43,000 (-4,000/+8,000)

2. ATWT 38,000 (-9,000/-12,000)

3. GH 33,000 (-11,000/-54,000)

4. DAYS 30,000 (-26,000/-23,000)

5. B&B 22,000 (-19,000/-27,000)

5. Y&R 22,000 (-12,000/-69,000)

7. OLTL 20,000 (-17,000/-37,000)

8. AMC 16,000 (-4,000/-45,000)

Women 18-34 Rating

1. DAYS 1.0/7 (same/-.3)

1. GH 1.0/6 (same/-.3)

3. Y&R 0.8/6 (-.2/-.6)

3. OLTL 0.8/5 (same/-.3)

5. AMC 0.7/5 (-.1/-.3)

6. ATWT 0.6/4 (-.2/-.2)

6. B&B 0.6/4 (-.2/-.3)

8. GL 0.5/3 (-.1/-.3)

Men 18+ Viewers

1. Y&R 1,401,000 (-15,000/+179,000)

2. B&B 912,000 (-295,000/+116,000)

3. ATWT 672,000 (-36,000/+65,000)

4. DAYS 567,000 (-16,000/+83,000)

5. GL 523,000 (+11,000/-47,000)

6. GH 516,000 (-8,000/-35,000)

7. AMC 492,000 (+18,000/-72,000)

8. OLTL 443,000 (+7,000/-26,000)

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Day-To-Day HH Ratings - HH/Total Viewers

AMC

Monday: 2.0/2,674,000

Tuesday: 1.9/2,519,000

Wednesday: 1.9/2,426,000

Thursday: 1.7/2,228,000

Friday: 1.8/2,218,000

ATWT

Monday: 2.2/3,012,000

Tuesday: 2.1/2,721,000

Wednesday: 2.1/2,845,000

Thursday: 2.0/2,714,000

Friday: 2.0/2,684,000

B&B

Monday: 2.8/3,794,000

Tuesday: 2.7/3,735,000

Wednesday: 2.6/3,722,00

Thursday: 2.6/3,655,000

Friday: 2.5/3,425,000

DAYS

Monday: 2.2/3,035,000

Tuesday: 2.0/2,654,000

Wednesday: 2.1/2,842,000

Thursday: 2.2/3,026,000

Friday: 1.9/2,557,000

GH

Monday: 2.3/3,217,000

Tuesday: 2.2/2,961,000

Wednesday: 2.0/2,566,000

Thursday: 2.0/2,725,000

Friday: 2.1/2,740,000

GL

Monday: 1.8/2,498,000

Tuesday: 1.7/2,209,000

Wednesday: 1.7/2,421,000

Thursday: 1.6/2,237,000

Friday: 1.6/2,166,000

OLTL

Monday: 2.0/2,763,000

Tuesday: 2.0/2,523,000

Wednesday: 1.8/2,263,000

Thursday: 1.7/2,298,000

Friday: 1.9/2,223,000

Y&R

Monday: 4.0/5,496,000

Tuesday: 3.8/5,289,000

Wednesday: 3.7/5,105,000

Thursday: 3.6/4,951,000

Friday: 3.7/5,187,000

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For the SEASON September 24, 2007 through April 6, 2008

HH

1. Y&R 4.1

2. B&B 2.9

3. GH 2.4

4. ATWT 2.3

5. OLTL 2.2

6. AMC 2.1

6. DAYS 2.1

8. GL 1.9

Women 18-49 Rating

1. Y&R 2.0

2. GH 1.6

3. DAYS 1.5

4. OLTL 1.4

4. B&B 1.4

6. ATWT 1.3

6. AMC 1.3

8. GL 1.2

Edited April 11, 200817 yr by Toups

GH may have started out as a hospital soap, but it became a huge hit as a action adventure secret spy mob war soap. the differnce between that and this is that sonny and jason are not robert and luke. the heart is missing, and when you take the heart away from something everything else fails.

Fans of GH need to realize things are NOT going to change. TPTB don't see a problem with the way it's written, the way they portray women on this show, the way the mobbies are glorified and held to the highest standards of sainthood - they don't see how it all looks on screen - and just don't care if they drop like a stone.

It's Guza's way. He and his cronies have run this show for far too long and I don't foresee fans of this show making a bit of difference by complaining, campaigning, or bitching on message boards. This is it folks, like it, love it, or hate it.

The Gooz could care less about what we think, he only cares about his own agenda and what he wants.

Those who have been complaining about GH don't want to see this show canceled - we want change, want the show fixed, we want a new regime, we want GH to recapture it's heart - cause it left this show a very long time ago!

10 years ago something changed with this show and it's gotten worse over the past 5 years - the violence, mobbie sainthood, abuse against women and children, lack of veterans, lack of creative storytelling, inconsistency with stories, lackluster dialogue, lack of romance, families, and an increase in a single focus center character/story.

If you don't love Sonny, Jason or Carly, you're pretty much screwed cause God forbid another pair, character, or story gets frontburner attention.

Fans of GH need to realize things are NOT going to change. TPTB don't see a problem with the way it's written, the way they portray women on this show, the way the mobbies are glorified and held to the highest standards of sainthood - they don't see how it all looks on screen - and just don't care if they drop like a stone.

It's Guza's way. He and his cronies have run this show for far too long and I don't foresee fans of this show making a bit of difference by complaining, campaigning, or bitching on message boards. This is it folks, like it, love it, or hate it.

The Gooz could care less about what we think, he only cares about his own agenda and what he wants.

Those who have been complaining about GH don't want to see this show canceled - we want change, want the show fixed, we want a new regime, we want GH to recapture it's heart - cause it left this show a very long time ago!

10 years ago something changed with this show and it's gotten worse over the past 5 years - the violence, mobbie sainthood, abuse against women and children, lack of veterans, lack of creative storytelling, inconsistency with stories, lackluster dialogue, lack of romance, families, and an increase in a single focus center character/story.

If you don't love Sonny, Jason or Carly, you're pretty much screwed cause God forbid another pair, character, or story gets frontburner attention.

I think a focus on a narrow few characters is true of all ABC soaps. I also think it's true that all ABC soaps pander to a certain demographic and kill off characters. Viewers like the demographic they pander to and the characters or they don't. they get angry about who gets killed off or they don't. I hate what OLTL did to my favorite character and now it is no secret (in spite of the spoilers of a surprising murder) that my favorite character is going to get murdered. OK, I hope it is not true, but I've pretty much bowed out of that show anyway. OLTL is going to focus on people in the more senior demographic it looks like.

My point, other than I finally will be through with OLTL forever, LOL, is that GH isn't the only show that focuses on a few character and has everyone else as background noise. In fact they have stories for Alexis, Scrubs and other characters so they aren't as bad as some. You either like who they focus on or you don't. ABC would be wise to appeal to a cross-section, but ABC has never been wise.

Fans of GH need to realize things are NOT going to change. TPTB don't see a problem with the way it's written, the way they portray women on this show, the way the mobbies are glorified and held to the highest standards of sainthood - they don't see how it all looks on screen - and just don't care if they drop like a stone.

It's Guza's way. He and his cronies have run this show for far too long and I don't foresee fans of this show making a bit of difference by complaining, campaigning, or bitching on message boards. This is it folks, like it, love it, or hate it.

The Gooz could care less about what we think, he only cares about his own agenda and what he wants.

Those who have been complaining about GH don't want to see this show canceled - we want change, want the show fixed, we want a new regime, we want GH to recapture it's heart - cause it left this show a very long time ago!

10 years ago something changed with this show and it's gotten worse over the past 5 years - the violence, mobbie sainthood, abuse against women and children, lack of veterans, lack of creative storytelling, inconsistency with stories, lackluster dialogue, lack of romance, families, and an increase in a single focus center character/story.

If you don't love Sonny, Jason or Carly, you're pretty much screwed cause God forbid another pair, character, or story gets frontburner attention.

Sadly I feel the same way about OLTL. I don't hate the show, It's actually my favorite soap. What I hate is the insipid writing masquerading as the best soap on ABC, if not Daytime, and being told it's an improvement from Higley and the years gone by. Frankly, it isn't.

I have stopped being angry and apathy has set in. Judging by the ratings, millions feel the same way. Contrary to what many think the genre isn't dying because there are other options to compete with, it's dying because fans are frustrated. They are frustrated because they keep being ignored and they have opted to walk away. It's as simple as that. When the writing is good they return but it's always with one foot out the door. The know how the game is played and they continue to be skeptical.

Frons doesn't care. He really doesn't and that will be the downfall of OLTL and the rest of ABC Daytime unless Anne Sweeney finally decides to give a damn and replace him with someone with actually loves the genre and is willing to listen to the fans. I certainly don't want to see OLTL cancelled but I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't give me satisfaction when I see the dismal ratings knowing it's a direct result of Frons not caring about what I think. If that doesn't make me a "real" fan then so be it. I could care less.

The minute RC said he was going to focus on the "Cores" the show hasn't been the same. But in actuality it's been eroding long before that. The vision of this show is ghastly and I blame RC but the bigger problem is Frons and always will be. Unless he is gone, all of ABC daytime including AMC and GH, will continue to bleed to death

Sadly I feel the same way about OLTL. I don't hate the show, It's actually my favorite soap. What I hate is the insipid writing masquerading as the best soap on ABC, if not Daytime, and being told it's an improvement from Higley and the years gone by. Frankly, it isn't.

I have stopped being angry and apathy has set in. Judging by the ratings, millions feel the same way. Contrary to what many think the genre isn't dying because there are other options to compete with, it's dying because fans are frustrated. They are frustrated because they keep being ignored and they have opted to walk away. It's as simple as that. When the writing is good they return but it's always with one foot out the door. The know how the game is played and they continue to be skeptical.

Frons doesn't care. He really doesn't and that will be the downfall of OLTL and the rest of ABC Daytime unless Anne Sweeney finally decides to give a damn and replace him with someone with actually loves the genre and is willing to listen to the fans. I certainly don't want to see OLTL cancelled but I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't give me satisfaction when I see the dismal ratings knowing it's a direct result of Frons not caring about what I think. If that doesn't make me a "real" fan then so be it. I could care less.

The minute RC said he was going to focus on the "Cores" the show hasn't been the same. But in actuality it's been eroding long before that. The vision of this show is ghastly and I blame RC but the bigger problem is Frons and always will be. Unless he is gone, all of ABC daytime including AMC and GH, will continue to bleed to death

Sadly you are right. I slowed my watching of GH back in 2005(and actually some time before that) when they destroyed and killed off my beloved AJ. I then started moreso only watching the parts of the show I enjoyed, FF though the rest. Slowly I found myself FF through more and more of the show and then they killed off my beloved Alan and I still stuck with it, as little of the show that I actually watched. The last straw was in Nov and Dec when they killed off Emily and Georgie. At that point I said enough and disassociated myself from this show for good. Despite the complaints you read on message board after message board nothing changes and it is sad that ABC has a man running daytime that cares not one iota for the fans or genre. I never was a Michael Eisner fan but at least he seemed to give a crap about daytime. This current Disney and ABC regime does not and they continue to erode viewers.

OLTL I have not watched in years and I keep hearing how much better it is but from posters here it sounds like they use the same approach the others do, focusing on the same core characters 90% of the time.

It makes me very sad to see how much apathy seems to exist at ABC and I fear when cancellations hit, they will be the first casualty.

GH may have started out as a hospital soap, but it became a huge hit as a action adventure secret spy mob war soap. the differnce between that and this is that sonny and jason are not robert and luke. the heart is missing, and when you take the heart away from something everything else fails.

but at one time even when the show began to incorporate action/adventure stories with the WSB and DVX and all of that, the show still had a good balance of other things. During that same time we had things like Tony and Tania, Tony and Bobbie, ELQ and the power struggle, multi-generational families, etc. There was something for everyone. Now there's very little else but the mob stories. Any other stories are not fully developed stories any more. They're filler and you can tell.