Only in hindsight did ABC cancel the wrong soap. I believe that prior to last April, GH often outranked OLTL both in households and demos.

Yup. GH was ranking higher then both AMC/OLTL prior to the month of March I believe. When the announcement was made, OLTL just skyrocketed. But the one question that gets me mad is WHERE WERE THE FANS PRIOR??!

But DAYS honestly should have been done years ago. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

Yup. GH was ranking higher then both AMC/OLTL prior to the month of March I believe. When the announcement was made, OLTL just skyrocketed. But the one question that gets me mad is WHERE WERE THE FANS PRIOR??!

But DAYS honestly should have been done years ago. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

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Yup. GH was ranking higher then both AMC/OLTL prior to the month of March I believe. When the announcement was made, OLTL just skyrocketed. But the one question that gets me mad is WHERE WERE THE FANS PRIOR??!

But DAYS honestly should have been done years ago. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

OLTL had very erratic ratings in the last few years. I'm not too sure they would have stayed if the show hadn't been canceled, as it fell apart, again, in the last 5-6 months.

Oh WOW!

Those Revolution numbers are really terrible as this show has really flopped hard. The affiliates will be pulling this show off the schedule very soon if some of them already haven't. No way ABC brings this show back in the fall, they can definitely find something better than this or just keep GH.

I really feel bad that GH always has to follow that low-rated program.

"It's a good thing I left Stevie Wonder's basement to see how bad these soap ratings are for this week. LOL!"

-Snowstrom 101.

Guiding Light was canceled with a .9 and 620,000 women 18-49, with no lead in at 10:00 am in the morning throughout a lot of the country, and not even airing in 2 cities in the top 20 TV markets. What are GH's and DAYS' excuses when it comes to that? As far as The Chew or The Spew goes, I can guarantee ABC sees this as a rousing success - barely behind The Squawlk which has a year and a half ahead to build ratings. They'll just say that The Revulsion was a bad decision itself and try retooling before they cancel. What's funny is that although it may be cheap to produce - Tim Gunn and Ty Pennington ain't cheap - each probably makes the salary of several daytimers - at a minimum. And they're paying people to come watch them. But 1 show's awful ratings does not mean GH or DAYS is safe. Either network could trot out a gameshow with no preparation and come close to the numbers these two soaps are getting.

The affiliates will be pulling this show off the schedule very soon if some of them already haven't.

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I agree with you, Kryptonite, I wouldn't be surprised if some markets pull a Port Charles and bump the Revolution to late night, before May sweeps comes around.

If that happens there is no network time slot for GH to slide into in 2013 because The Chew is performing nearly at AMC's numbers and at a fraction of the cost. Unless ABC decides to syndicate GH which they refused to do for AMC and OLTL.

Edited February 11, 201213 yr by TeamEric

GH is dreadful but they haven't been doing that well for quite a few years not sure if these #s held up during sweeps which tanked on quite a few occasions (for many years).