Coverage of the solar eclipse Monday April 8 might affect the soaps.

At this time, it looks like GH will be fully preempted Monday April 8 for the eclipse.

Y&R and B&B are still showing as airing Monday April 8th in some TV listings.
Some listings for specific cities show one or both soaps at a slightly adjusted time, shifted to before or after the eclipse.
In some areas, coverage of the eclipse might preempt one or both CBS soaps,
especially in Central and Mountain timezones?  In which case, watch online.
Hopefully CBS or the individual soaps will clarify soon!

Be prepared to set your recording devices to record manually for week of April 8th.

• Monday April 8 might have eclipse disruptions on CBS in some areas.
   
• Tuesday April 9 and Wednesday April 10 on CBS will have
  soccer disruptions in Mountain/Pacific/Alaska/Hawaii timezones.
  More details on the soccer thread at this comment:

The Talk will be fully preempted nationally Monday April 8 for the eclipse.
The Talk will be fully preempted nationally Tues April 9 and Wed April 10 for European soccer.
The Talk's press release confirms this:
https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/the-talk/releases/?view=109561-upcoming-guests-on-the-talk-48-412-2

Edited April 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

With platforms like Hulu & Paramount+, as well as late-night airings, there is zero reason to pre-empt soaps in 2024.

I just checked and General Hospital and The Talk will be preempted in my time zone. B&B will not be preempted.

Per zap2it.com , this is the GH rerun that will air
on CityTV in Canada on Monday April 9
(and possibly markets in US not airing at same time as eclipse)
 

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Episode #14978 (Season 59, Episode 171)
Michael and Drew receive an unexpected offer from Carly.
At his birthday party, Leo reminds Chase of the promise he made.
Ned has a meeting with someone unexpected.
Ava and Esme butt heads, while Sam tells Spencer she needs answers.
Gladys figures out what Sasha has been hiding.

Dustin Cushman's recap:
https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/recaps/631481/general-hospital-spencer-confides-sam-about-real-esme/

Edited April 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

I swear, this eclipse has the best PR agent on the planet.

Firstly, it doesn't seem that rare, given that we can all recall a certain former president staring directly into the sun for an eclipse in 2017.

Second, what are they going to use to visualize the experience on TV?  An area going dark and then light; big whoop. 

I am old enough to recall the total eclipse in 1979.  GMA went outside for one segment, showed it getting dark, and that was it.  The planned multi-hour coverage doesn't seem warranted for the event.  I think they have overestimated the appeal.

Thank you @janea4old I am just seeing this now.

I agree @j swift this all is a bit much.  I guess there are solar eclipse excursions and tours (many booked), etc...Wow!

The path of eclipse totality is diagonally across the USA and Mexico. 
But a great deal of North and Central America (from Panama to Canada) will have at least a partial eclipse.   And it's in the middle of the day.

Beginning with Tahiti and Hawaii as the sun is rising.
Ending across the Atlantic to Ireland, Scotland, and the Canary Islands just as the sun is setting.

This map shows the path (narrow band) of the totality. But it's interactive in that  you can click anywhere on the map to find out the percentage of the sun that will be obscured in your area:
https://nso.edu/for-public/eclipse-map-2024/

Edited April 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

3 hours ago, j swift said:

 

Firstly, it doesn't seem that rare, given that we can all recall a certain former president staring directly into the sun for an eclipse in 2017.

Second, what are they going to use to visualize the experience on TV?  An area going dark and then light; big whoop. 

 

I experienced the 2017 eclipse. It doesn't seem like it has been seven years. I truly enjoyed the experience. Going from daylight to total darkness and back to sunlight in just minutes was great to be part of.

Now going from a state to another and camp overnight to experience the eclipse is a bit much.😂

The eclipse on Monday won't hit us directly as the 2017 one but it will be interesting to see anyways.

Edited April 6, 20241 yr by Soapsuds

Thank you for the information.

😂😂😂

 

So here in TX we did get YR and BB at its regular scheduled time.

GH was indeed preempted.

The eclipse coverage might have seemed like overkill, but at least it's one uncontroversial event that the entire nation can rally around. This is so needed, especially in the same year as what is bound to be a tumultuous election. 

Monday Ratings for the eclipse. ABC was the winner. 

Broadcast
ABC News (Eclipse Across America): 4.448 million total viewers, 920,000 A25-54

CBS News (Total Eclipse of the Heartland): 2.705 million total viewers, 447,000 A25-54  (2-3:30 p.m. ET)

NBC News (Solar Eclipse: 2024): 2.406 million total viewers, 483,000 A25-54

 

 

Edited April 14, 20241 yr by Soapsuds

CBS wins for title though!  

So they basically got the amount of viewers that the soaps do LMAO