1 hour ago, Spoon said:

NBC's 84 comeback did not extend to daytime? What shows (game shows, Soaps) would you overhaul or can? What new shows if any would you add to daytime?

I've always wished NBC had greenlit SCRUPLES (based on the Judith Krantz novel, developed for television by Pat Falken Smith) over SaBa.

From what I understand, NBC was never as strict with their affiliates where the shows were aired. I think it really impeded any success any soap they launched could have.

I think to get affiliates to carry their soaps/gameshows they were more lenient in allowing them to reschedule.

But that plan backfired as the network shows were often placed in less advantageous timeslots, so didn't bring in the ratings at a local or national level and then the affiliates dropped them anyway.

I think ABC had an advantage in the late 70's when daytime took off for them as they were often weaker stations who happily took all the network shows.

Our nearest NBC station, Plattsburgh NY, never aired Santa Barbara. Then when Sunset Beach came along they aired it twice a day. Once at 10am and then again late night, after what followed The Tonight Show.

10 hours ago, Stevel said:

Our nearest NBC station, Plattsburgh NY, never aired Santa Barbara. Then when Sunset Beach came along they aired it twice a day. Once at 10am and then again late night, after what followed The Tonight Show.

When Santa Barbara debuted, the Buffalo NY NBC station aired it at 9 am initially although it looks like the Hamilton Ontario station (CHCH) was airing it at 3pm while NBC showed He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

I went to college in a smaller town and I remember Sunset Beach aired at 1AM Central time.. and once that show was canceled, Passions aired at 2 PM and 3 PM on two different stations.

I always wondered how Passions ended up airing during regular day time hours yet Sunset Beach didn't. Never made sense.

The one good thing about Sunset Beach was that the Pittsburgh station aired it at 1, bumping Days to 3pm where it aired for two decades. We got onto Days after GL went to the morning and my dad would tune in early for Judge Judy. Personally, Days had little to no appeal to me but I got hooked in.