After the three daytime broadcast soap operas saw a surge in viewership over the previous two weeks, the shows came back down to earth during the week of August 19-23, 2024. 

“General Hospital,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless”
ABC / CBS

In the case of “The Young and the Restless,” the daytime drama series averaged just 2.802 million viewers for the week. Compared to one week earlier, the series was down -99,000 viewers. However, the show’s performance year-to-year was much worse, down -283,000 viewers. In Households, the show pulled in a 1.9 rating, down from its 2.0 rating last week.

“General Hospital” averaged just 1.955 million viewers for the week, on par with its performance during the same week last year. The series fell the least among the three soaps week-to-week, down -37,000 viewers. The show remained flat among Households week-to-week and year-to-year, pulling a 1.3 rating.

Averaging 2.572 million viewers, “The Bold and the Beautiful” was down -67,000 viewers over its performance one week earlier. Compared to the same week last year, the series was down -92,000 viewers. Among Households, the show pulled a 1.7 rating, down from its 1.8 rating one week earlier.

Elsewhere, “GMA3: What You Need to Know” averaged 1.209 million viewers while “NBC News Daily” averaged 1.099 million viewers. Repeats of “The Talk” averaged 1.050 million viewers.

Among Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54, the key news demographics, “NBC News Daily” topped “GMA3” with 144,000 viewers vs. 131,000 viewers in the former category and beat the ABC News show by +20,000 viewers in the latter category (208,000 vs. 188,000). Compared to the same week last year, “NBC News Daily” was +12,000 viewers, or 1%, and narrowed the gap with “GMA3” by 66%.

“NBC News Daily” topped both “GMA3” and “The Talk” among viewers Women 18-49 and Women 25-54. For the week, “NBC News Daily” averaged 98,000 viewers among Women 18-49 vs. 81,000 viewers for repeats of “The Talk” and 79,000 viewers for “GMA3.” Among Women 25-54, “NBC News Daily” averaged 137,000 viewers, beating repeats of “The Talk” with its 131,000 viewers and “GMA3” with its 114,000 viewers.

Women 18-49 and Women 25-54 demographic information for the three daytime soaps were unavailable at press time. The post will be updated when available.

Note: “The View,” “The Talk,” “Let’s Make a Deal” and “The Price is Right” each aired amended repeats which are excluded from each show’s weekly average and will not factor into their season average.

Note: The post Daytime Broadcast Ratings For The Week of August 19-23, 2024 appeared first on the Soap Opera Network website.

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14 hours ago, Errol said:

 

Averaging 2.572 million viewers, “The Bold and the Beautiful” was down -67,000 viewers over its performance one week earlier. Compared to the same week last year, the series was down -92,000 viewers.  

 

Good. People are responding to the luna-tic cartoon storyline! 

B&B drops. The rewrites so far aren't improving ratings.

JJ return did nothing for GH. The show actually dropped slighty.