February 9-13, 2009

[Rakesh]

Pre-empted in NY.

[Soapsuds]

The biggest day was Tuesday. The day Phillip arrived at Beth's wedding. Even though there are no 1.4 etc....the total viewers are still way too low. Only Tuesday had almost 2.5 million. The rest were close to under the 2 million mark.

[Angela]

1.(1) Y&R: Monday: 3.8/5,063,000 (-231,000)

2.(2) B&B: Monday: 2.7/3,504,000 (-160,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Monday: 2.2/3,141,000 (-149,000)

4.(6) AMC: Monday: 2.0/2,738,000 (+341,000)

5.(5) GH: Monday: 2.1/2,702,000 (+46,000)

6.(4) ATWT: Monday: 2.1/2,680,000 (-72,000)

7.(8) OLTL: Monday: 1.9/2,461,000 (+90,000)

8.(7) GL: Monday: 1.6/2,102,000 (-292,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Tuesday: 3.8/5,169,000 (+106,000)

2.(2) B&B: Tuesday: 2.7/3,667,000 (+163,000)

3.(5) GH: Tuesday: 2.1/2,796,000 (+94,000)

4.(6) ATWT: Tuesday: 2.0/2,769,000 (+89,000)

5.(3) DAYS: Tuesday: 1.9/2,554,000 (-587,000)

6.(4) AMC: Tuesday: 1.9/2,505,000 (-233,000)

7.(8) GL: Tuesday: 1.8/2,438,000 (+336,000)

8.(7) OLTL: Tuesday: 1.9/2,396,000 (-65,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Wednesday: 3.7/5,269,000 (+100,000)

2.(2) B&B: Wednesday: 2.6/3,628,000 (-39,000)

3.(3) GH: Wednesday: 2.2/2,753,000 (-43,000)

4.(5) DAYS: Wednesday: 2.0/2,723,000 (+169,000)

5.(4) ATWT: Wednesday: 2.0/2,704,000 (-65,000)

6.(6) AMC: Wednesday: 1.9/2,479,000 (-26,000)

7.(8) OLTL: Wednesday: 1.9/2,474,000 (+78,000)

8.(7) GL: Wednesday: 1.7/2,252,000 (-186,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Thursday: 3.5/4,696,000 (-573,000)

2.(2) B&B: Thursday: 2.6/3,426,000 (-202,000)

3.(4) DAYS: Thursday: 2.0/2,958,000 (+235,000)

4.(3) GH: Thursday: 2.1/2,680,000 (-73,000)

5.(5) ATWT: Thursday: 2.0/2,671,000 (-33,000)

6.(6) AMC: Thursday: 1.8/2,375,000 (-104,000)

7.(7) OLTL: Thursday: 1.9/2,370,000 (-104,000)

8.(8) GL: Thursday: 1.7/2,110,000 (-142,000)

1.(1) Y&R: Friday: 3.6/5,095,000 (+399,000)

2.(2) B&B: Friday: 2.5/3,437,000 (+11,000)

3.(3) DAYS: Friday: 2.0/2,848,000 (-110,000)

4.(4) GH: Friday: 2.1/2,776,000 (+96,000)

5.(5) ATWT: Friday: 1.9/2,669,000 (-2,000)

6.(7) OLTL: Friday: 1.9/2,423,000 (+53,000)

7.(6) AMC: Friday: 1.8/2,406,000 (+31,000)

8.(8) GL: Friday: 1.6/2,137,000 (+27,000)

[nell17]

Thanks for posting.

[dragonflies]

LOL I guess AMC viewers were turned off by the bait and switch Pratt's been giving. Who can invest in the Reeks wedding, when Reese is kissing her future BIL the day before the wedding

[Rocket Man]

Feb 9-13, 2009

GL

Monday: 1.6/2,102,000

Tuesday: 1.8/2,438,000

Wednesday: 1.7/2,252,000

Thursday: 1.7/2,110,000

Friday: 1.6/2,137,000

According to last week message board news, P&G Blog site and CBS.com, "Guiding Light" was pre-empted on WCBS-TV 2 in New York City and was re-aired at 2am. This explains the 1.6 rating on Monday and I would speculate if it wasn't for the pre-emption GL could've achieved either 1.8-2.1 on Monday because NYC is the largest television market in U.S.; the overall week ratings could've been a 1.8 or a 1.9.

**Sorry Rakesh, didn't see your earlier post on this particular pre-emption issue.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

NYC isn't a good market for the CBS soaps. For years, Loving/The City, Port Charles out-rated Y&R in the NYC market. I doubt the pre-emption in NYC impacted GL's ratings for Monday that significantly.

[RomeAt50]

There seems to be a huge downward trend for soaps this week so I don't think AMC was gonna get good ratings no matter what was on. But its true that its very hard to invest in that wedding for a lot of reasons. First, Reese and her relationship with Zach are unpopular, a lot of people were angered by the Zach/Reese kiss which was spoiled in the promos. You have the awful and unpopular babygate story that surrounds it.Then you have the fact that a lot of people already knew Eden Riegel was leaving. Then there's the fact that Bianca and Reese's relatonship has been undermined and underdeveloped for the past four months. There's the character assassionation of Bianca (and Zach). It could have been a decent story but they really messed it up.

[Soapsuds]

I agree. And how do you explain Friday's show, Rocketman?? There wasn't a pre-emption there too.

[baller]

regardless of the Monday preemption in some areas, I think it's more telling that they jumped right back down to the 1.6 on Friday. Seems those who came to watch Phillip arn't sticking around or connecting with the other stories.

[dragonflies]

I completely agree! This is a clusterfuck on top of a clusterfuck, which is Pratt's MO. LOL maybe we all IMAGINED this, I mean isn't that what Craputhers told us?

I think people were turned off by alot of things, especially one half of the LESBIAN couple swapping spit with a MAN and dreaming of MARRYING him the day of HER wedding

Looks like Pratt's doing worse than B&E. I don't see how they can justify keeping him around with ratings like these.

[Angela]

GL. They recieved eight 1.7's in 5 months prior to the past 3 weeks. In the past 3 weeks they got eight 1.7's or above. It's improvement, but the story will only be telling 2-3 months from now - were these a couple of 1.7 weeks and then back down to 1.4-1.6? To early to call this one.

8.(*) GL: Tuesday, 9/2: 1.5/2,000,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 9/3: 1.5/2,024,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 9/4: 1.6/2,207,000

*.(8) GL: Friday, 9/5: U.S. Open

8.(*) GL: Monday, 9/8: 1.5/2,050,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 9/9: 1.5/1,983,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 9/10: 1.5/1,992,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 9/11: 1.5/2,111,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 9/12: 1.5/1,983,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 9/15: 1.6/2,077,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 9/16: 1.5/2,091,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 9/17: 1.5/1,922,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 9/18: 1.6/2,059,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 9/19: 1.5/1,994,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 9/22: 1.4/1,951,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 9/23: 1.6/2,162,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 9/24: 1.5/2,136,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 9/25: 1.5/2,319,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 9/26: 1.5/2,104,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 9/29: 1.5/2,206,000

7.(8) GL: Tuesday, 9/30: 1.6/2,171,000

8.(7) GL: Wednesday, 10/1: 1.5/2,098,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 10/2: 1.6/2,187,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 10/3: 1.5/2,110,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 10/6: 1.6/2,331,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 10/7: 1.5/2,014,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 10/8: 1.5/2,216,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 10/9: 1.5/2,054,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 10/10: 1.4/1,943,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 10/13: 1.5/2,122,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 10/14: 1.5/2,228,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 10/15: 1.5/2,166,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 10/16: 1.5/2,110,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 10/17: 1.5/1,985,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 10/20: 1.6/2,158,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 10/21: 1.6/2,183,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 10/22: 1.5/1,876,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 10/23: 1.5/2,218,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 10/24: 1.6/2,195,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 10/27: 1.3/1,831,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 10/28: 1.7/2,186,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 10/29: 1.6/2,123,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 10/30: 1.5/2,059,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 10/31: 1.5/1,979,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 11/3: 1.5/2,029,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 11/4: 1.5/2,155,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 11/5: 1.6/2,095,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 11/6: 1.4/2,035,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 11/7: 1.4/1,992,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 11/10: 1.3/1,949,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 11/11: 1.5/2,146,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 11/12: 1.3/1,824,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 11/13: 1.4/1,843,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 11/14: 1.5/1,990,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 11/17: 1.5/1,912,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 11/18: 1.4/1,964,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 11/19: 1.5/2,009,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 11/20: 1.5/1,975,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 11/21: 1.5/2,064,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 11/24: 1.4/2,043,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 11/25: 1.6/2,270,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 11/26: 1.6/2,262,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 12/1: 1.5/2,147,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 12/2: 1.5/2,091,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 12/3: 1.4/1,997,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 12/4: 1.4/1,839,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 12/5: 1.5/2,024,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 12/8: 1.5/2,058,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 12/9: 1.7/2,351,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 12/10: 1.6/2,108,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 12/11: 1.5/2,057,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 12/12: 1.5/2,122,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 12/15: 1.7/2,429,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 12/16: 1.6/2,217,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 12/17: 1.6/2,085,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 12/18: 1.5/2,000,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 12/19: 1.6/2,147,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 12/22: 1.4/1,989,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 12/23: 1.4/1,963,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 12/26: 1.5/2,217,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 12/29: 1.7/2,212,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 12/30: 1.6/2,240,000

8.(*) GL: Friday, 1/2: 1.7/2,244,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 1/5: 1.6/2,168,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 1/6: 1.6/2,142,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 1/7: 1.5/2,061,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 1/8: 1.4/1,933,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 1/9: 1.5/1,927,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 1/12: 1.6/2,215,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 1/13: 1.7/2,199,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 1/14: 1.7/2,125,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 1/15: 1.5/2,158,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 1/16: 1.5/2,195,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 1/19: 1.7/2,196,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 1/21: 1.6/2,252,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 1/22: 1.4/1,805,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 1/23: 1.4/1,956,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 1/26: 1.5/2,063,000

7.(8) GL: Tuesday, 1/27: 1.7/2,547,000

8.(7) GL: Wednesday, 1/28: 1.7/2,613,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 1/29: 1.6/2,421,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 1/30: 1.5/2,132,000

8.(8) GL: Monday, 2/2: 1.5/2,200,000

8.(8) GL: Tuesday, 2/3: 1.7/2,340,000

8.(8) GL: Wednesday, 2/4: 1.8/2,442,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 2/5: 1.7/2,133,000

7.(8) GL: Friday, 2/6: 1.6/2,394,000

8.(7) GL: Monday, 2/9: 1.6/2,102,000

7.(8) GL: Tuesday, 2/10: 1.8/2,438,000

8.(7) GL: Wednesday, 2/11: 1.7/2,252,000

8.(8) GL: Thursday, 2/12: 1.7/2,110,000

8.(8) GL: Friday, 2/13: 1.6/2,137,000

[Jonathan]

AMC's Friday episode was so good. I can't believe it was stagnant on that day.

[ATWT_GL_fan]

there was a storm last week too thats maybe why soaps were down

[DRW50]

Friday seemed to be one of the lower-rated days this week for all the soaps. I think viewers are probably not in the mindset these days where they'll tune in sustained numbers every day. Hopefully the numbers will be an increase for the next week, unless Coop's death was too depressing for people (or unless the stories didn't connect).

I know we can't be happy about 1.7 but to be honest I was almost expecting the ratings to go down when viewers realized Phillip's return wasn't going to be a huge OTT event and was more character-driven. I was afraid they would see his return as an anticlimax. At least the numbers held steady. People will only stay with GL if the show is sold well and is a good package overall, which is a big problem with most of today's soaps...I think it's getting there, but these days I know that may not translate in ratings. I just hope they're doing well enough to be renewed. I don't think in ratings or quality they warrant cancellation at the moment.

As for AMC, I bet Frons will blame the lesbian wedding, and nothing else, for the ratings. Never mind that this whole story has been so offensive on so many levels that I don't know how many people were going to tune in, unless they had heard nothing about the actual story and just wanted to see a lesbian wedding.