Yeah cause what timeslot would they put GH in?

Exactly....

ABC could have to move GH to 1PM or 2PM if The Chew and/or The Revolution flop. Wishful thinking. GH needs a miracle.

Yeah...all three down the drain in a year....sounds like a plausible timeline....

AMC -- September 2011--Chew

OLTL -- January 2012-The Revolution

GH -- September 2012-The Katie Couric Hour.

It's like they planned that all along....

I think the Katie Couric news means the end of GH too....

Talk about suckage......what an awful abc lineup just like their nighttime lineups...lol

ABC could have to move GH to 1PM or 2PM if The Chew and/or The Revolution flop. Wishful thinking. GH needs a miracle.

I think that, even before this, GH's future was already determined....it was just a matter of when....

Already, eight of the ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh/Durham and Fresno, which represent nearly 23% of the nation’s TV households, have already cleared Couric’s new show in the 3:00 p.m. time slot. As part of the announcement, ABC will return the last hour of its daytime network block to affiliates no earlier than September 2012, but says it continues to support General Hospital. It plans to launch The Chew in September of this year and The Revolution in January 2012.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/06/katie-couric-abc-talk-show/

I think that, even before this, GH's future was already determined....it was just a matter of when....

Already, eight of the ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh/Durham and Fresno, which represent nearly 23% of the nation’s TV households, have already cleared Couric’s new show in the 3:00 p.m. time slot. As part of the announcement, ABC will return the last hour of its daytime network block to affiliates no earlier than September 2012, but says it continues to support General Hospital. It plans to launch The Chew in September of this year and The Revolution in January 2012.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/06/katie-couric-abc-talk-show/

Screw this I live in NY. Id rather watch GH at its worse than her. ABC doesn't see how she tanked the ratings for CBS news? whatever.

Screw this I live in NY. Id rather watch GH at its worse than her. ABC doesn't see how she tanked the ratings for CBS news? whatever.

After the last several years of faltering daytime numbers, I think that it is clear that ABC doesn't give a damn about ratings.

Well ABC does like to reward failure *coughFRONScough*

So, so sad...

ABC began to make a serious push in the talks in March. After initially offering Ms. Couric only a network-based show in the early afternoon, ABC and its president, Anne Sweeney, sweetened the offer with a continuing role in the news division.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/business/media/06couric.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=business

So, so sad...

ABC began to make a serious push in the talks in March. After initially offering Ms. Couric only a network-based show in the early afternoon, ABC and its president, Anne Sweeney, sweetened the offer with a continuing role in the news division.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/business/media/06couric.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=business

What a $%&!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

She's a failure and has been a failure for years and years. Even her last years at the Today Show were mostly marked by some increasing bitterness which permeated everything onscreen.

It's extremely lazy and short-sighted for ABC to throw millions upon millions of dollars at her, when she has never hosted a talk show, and when she has been a frosty and fake lightning rod who has many more people who will never watch her show than she has people who will.

All shows have a lifespan but I continue to be confused as to why ABC is replacing their soaps with such poor product, and in this case, something that will cost them far more money than it will ever make them.

Screw this I live in NY. Id rather watch GH at its worse than her. ABC doesn't see how she tanked the ratings for CBS news? whatever.

Yeah I thought Dan Rather tanked the ratings but she was much worse.

So, so sad...

ABC began to make a serious push in the talks in March. After initially offering Ms. Couric only a network-based show in the early afternoon, ABC and its president, Anne Sweeney, sweetened the offer with a continuing role in the news division.

I don't even know what this means. I can't see her being on their evening news - she's awful at that. Will she start to do old Baba Wawa-style soft focus "interviews" where she asks Gadhafi what type of belly button lint he'd like to be?

I don't even know what this means. I can't see her being on their evening news - she's awful at that. Will she start to do old Baba Wawa-style soft focus "interviews" where she asks Gadhafi what type of belly button lint he'd like to be?

Don't forget her big interview with Sarah Palin where she couldn't even get her to reveal what newspapers she read.

Don't forget her big interview with Sarah Palin where she couldn't even get her to reveal what newspapers she read.

:lol:

Whether that will translate to success in syndication is the big question. Much will depend on which stations agree to buy Ms. Couric’s show and at what hour they choose to run it. Stations have made commitments to other shows in the old “Oprah” time period.

Ms. Couric’s negotiators did not exact a guarantee that ABC’s stations would carry her show in the 4 p.m. time slot, as they had tried with NBC. The Couric team conducted market research that persuaded them that time periods would open up on enough stations for the syndicated show to gain more than a toe-hold when it made its nationwide debut in the fall of 2012.

Her team settled on a simple formula for success: if the show is good, people will watch it.