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ABC.com Streaming The View and General Hospital

General Hospital is the first ABC soap to offer complete episodes on the Web

Jan 14, 2009

-By Mike Shields

ABC has begun streaming full-length episodes of the daytime talker The View and long-running soap General Hospital on ABC.com.

As of Jan. 14 fans of both shows will have access to the five most recent episodes of each daily series. New episodes of The View will be posted at 1:00 p.m. PST each day, while General Hospital episodes will premiere online by 2:00 a.m. PST (just after the show airs on Soapnet).

General Hospital is the first ABC soap to offer complete episodes on the Web (One Life to Live and All My Children both offer daily highlight clips on ABC.com). Meanwhile in recent years clips from the The View have proven popular on YouTube and various gossips sites—particularly when the debates between the show’s hosts have become heated.

It's about 30 years to late.

Edited January 14, 200916 yr by reallyhateskateonlost

It's about 30 years to late.

LOL I was just thinking that. It is about time, though.

who the hell wants to watch GH?

I want One Life and AMC, not that bull s.hit! Ugh!

Why not do AMC and OLTL too?

I want One Life and AMC, not that bull s.hit! Ugh!

tell me about it. Today happens to be a day when my DVR decided to record the wrong channel, so now Im forced to watch the dreadful SN later in order to catch them which interrupts with my primetime viewing

Kind of cool, wish they would do that for OLTL/AMC. How long are they keeping them up? Hopefully for a week, so incase I miss them or my VCR (I know, I'm old school, lol) doesn't record, that's backup. Sadly, I don't have Soapnet just yet.

As I said in the news section, they are probably testing to see if this will work out. CBS didn't add all of their daytime shows online at once it was just Y&R and B&B (if I recall correctly) then ATWT and GL were added later.

B&B was added last it seemed that there were only 3 forever

who the hell wants to watch GH?

Frons and his family

Of course GH gets theirs first. Frons and his hard on for all things GH.(sorry for the mental image)

I'm sure OLTL and AMC will follow soon...

I hope so. I thought AMC would follow soon with getting the new style bumpers but its been about a year and only OLTL and GH have them. I thought GH and AMC would follow soon with getting previews back but so far only OLTL has them. ABC is slow on the uptake when it comes to giving equal treatment to all 3 soaps