How much notice do networks have to give Nielsen to mark something as a special airing if it wasn't because of a news pre-emption? The Wed repeat for BTG was announced here the week before. Feels like another dropped ball by CBS regarding this show, like not alerting the Canadian companies when they planned to air reruns.
The show had probably the best debut of any soap since we had access to demo numbers, and they held up well until the end of the summer before collapsing after the second full week of repeats. On linear, it has shed more of its W18-49 numbers from month one to month nine compared to any other soap debut. For what it's worth, this was a good indicator on how long the shows lasted. I didn't include The City as it was a spinoff in the same timeslot as Loving, but it did slightly worse than Sunset Beach - just a few decimals over -25%.
Sunset Beach 1997
1.5 (Jan 6- Jan 31)
1.125 (Sep 8-Oct 3)
-25%
Port Charles 1997/1998
1.75 (Jun 2- Jun 27)
1.633 (Feb 2 -Feb 27)
-7%
Passions 1999/2000
0.95 (Jul 5- Jul 30)
1.2 (Mar 6 - Mar 31)
+26%
Beyond The Gates 2025
0.2275 (Feb 28 - Mar 17)
0.1375 (Oct 27 -Nov 21)
-40%
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