Youch! I knew GH would drop from last week, but...ouch!

ABC couldnt just not count Wednesdays episode of OLTL or that wouldnt be fair? It wouldve been better off getting completely pre-empted. Weird how its best day was Friday. Thats rare.

ABC couldnt just not count Wednesdays episode of OLTL or that wouldnt be fair?

It's not about what ABC counts but what Nielsen counts.

This actually touches on something I've always wondered about: how much of a show do you have to watch for it to count? If you watch the first ten minutes then change channels does Nielsen count you as a viewer? What about DVR? If you watch a couple of minutes of a DVR'd show then delete it, does that show get credit for your viewing?

Well OLTL's uptick on Friday SHOULD be a good sign for the following week. That kind of ratings increase is very rare for OLTL on a Friday. I am sick of this show's particularly volatile/schizoid ratings. The show can't hold a ratings increase to save its life (holiday or not- the show has no sustainability). I have enjoyed it for the last two months straight.. I hate to see The Talk beat it, but I suppose it was a matter of time.

I hope ABC takes heed over Wednesday's awful OLTL ratings as preempting nearly half the show on the east coast, and then NYC only showing it late night killed the ratings for that episode. Sometimes it is better to just cut your losses and move the episode to the next day instead of what they did. That destroyed their weekly average.

Though it's nothing to brag about in the big picture of bad ratings, after seeing an episodic 2,715,000 for AMC I thought to myself I haven't seen that many viewers for an episode of AMC in a long time - so I looked it up. Tuesday, January 4 was AMC's highest episode total since April. 4th most watched episode since their down-tick began after the first week of March 2010.

I hope ABC takes heed over Wednesday's awful OLTL ratings as preempting nearly half the show on the east coast, and then NYC only showing it late night killed the ratings for that episode. Sometimes it is better to just cut your losses and move the episode to the next day instead of what they did. That destroyed their weekly average.

I don't think they care. Personally, I rather a late-night showing instead of a national pre-emption which throws Friday cliffhangers off for up to 6 weeks.

Speaking of not learning from ratings mistakes. ABCD put on a repeat episode mid-week a couple of months ago that sank the ratings for the entire line-up for the rest of the week yet they're going to repeat that error this coming week.

I'm glad that DAYS managed to maintain their 2.0 rating in households. I'm hoping next week they can move into 3rd place in total viewers and I'll be happy.

Though it's nothing to brag about in the big picture of bad ratings, after seeing an episodic 2,715,000 for AMC I thought to myself I haven't seen that many viewers for an episode of AMC in a long time - so I looked it up. Tuesday, January 4 was AMC's highest episode total since April. 4th most watched episode since their down-tick began after the first week of March 2010.

I don't think they care. Personally, I rather a late-night showing instead of a national pre-emption which throws Friday cliffhangers off for up to 6 weeks.

Speaking of not learning from ratings mistakes. ABCD put on a repeat episode mid-week a couple of months ago that sank the ratings for the entire line-up for the rest of the week yet they're going to repeat that error this coming week.

I'll take what tiny AMC good news I can get...

I knew putting the repeats mid week was a bad idea--I suspect some people might even think that means repeats the rest of the week.

And agreed about the pre-emption--it severely fucked up AMC's cliffhangars for a bit when they did that a while back.

I have to admit that I've never watched The Talk, so I can't comment on it's value as a show. However, the fact that it's beating a soap opera in ratings is upsetting to me. The soap genre is declining and we all know that. But it still is depressing to see a new cheaper-to-produce talk show be successful in the same time slot.

Anyone else glad to see Days got good numbers? Days hits high numbers, One Life hits low numbers. Anyone shocked there was no ABC press release again? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? LOL

The gain is nice, but they are still down a jaw dropping 600,000 viewers in comparison to last year and over 100,000 in the key demo.

"The Talk" DELIVERS ITS LARGEST WEEKLY AUDIENCE

"The Talk" Matches Its Highest Women 18-49 Rating

The Talk, CBS's new daytime talk show, delivered its largest weekly audience ever and matched its best women 18-49 delivery, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Jan. 7.

The Talk posted a 1.7/05 household rating with 2.34m viewers, 1.1/07 in women 25-54, 0.9/05 in women 18-49 and 0.6/04 in women 18-34. The Talk posted its largest weekly audience to date, matched its best weekly delivery in both households and women 18-49, posted its second-best weekly women 25-54 performance and scored its best women 18-34 rating since the week ending Dec. 17, 2010.

The Talk beat "One Life To Live" in women 18-34 (0.6/04 vs. 0.4/03) and tied with women 18-49.

The Talk (Weekdays 2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT) is co-hosted by Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini and Marissa Jaret Winokur. Brad Bessey, Gilbert and John Redmann are executive producers.

OLTL collapsed this week. New low in W18-34. Not surprised, it was interrupted on Wednesday and fully pre-empted on NY but I guess The Talk was too.

Meh, lets see what The Talk does on a week when OLTL doesn't have a pre-emption. Nice spin by CBS though.

Edited January 14, 201114 yr by MontyB

It's not about what ABC counts but what Nielsen counts.

This actually touches on something I've always wondered about: how much of a show do you have to watch for it to count? If you watch the first ten minutes then change channels does Nielsen count you as a viewer? What about DVR? If you watch a couple of minutes of a DVR'd show then delete it, does that show get credit for your viewing?

The ratings are monitored every 15 minutes, so they just take the average. Lots of shows tend to have higher numbers in the first thirty minutes than the last 30, as people tune out.

Edited January 14, 201114 yr by Bella20

Youch! I knew GH would drop from last week, but...ouch!

That wasn't that big of a drop. Compared to 700,000 viewers.

Meh, lets see what The Talk does on a week when OLTL doesn't have a pre-emption. Nice spin by CBS though.

It seems the talk was pre-empted also so they are holding there own against OLTL. OLTL numbers just went back to normal no surprise there.

While the viewing numbers don't look bad, those demo's are kind of scary especially the 18-34 and the huge drops over the past year especially in that group.

It seems the talk was pre-empted also so they are holding there own against OLTL. OLTL numbers just went back to normal no surprise there.

I don't recall the The Talk being pre-empted all the way through. OLTL was pre-empted all the way through because WABC decided to show Gov Cuomo coverage. It wasn't on all the channels here in NY.

No matter, I'm more interested in this week ratings without any interruptions.

Edited January 14, 201114 yr by MontyB