Ratings for the week April 28 - May 2, 2025

Omg. Nearly minus 250 000 compared to last year for Bold.

These preemptions, lord.

Ouch at that 0.14 on Thursday for BTG. These past two weeks have been pretty stellar, IMO. I really wanted the ratings to reflect that.

I'm really curious about streaming numbers for all soaps, but especially BTG. I keep hoping that BTG gets larger streaming views. Probably just wishful thinking. However, it strikes me as the show that would have more people streaming at night after work or on weekends than the other shows. 

It's such a shame that arguably the two best episodes of the season so far (Thurs/Fri) were aired on a preemption week. If only it could have had the slow build for the entire week. 

This soccer sh*t is RIDICULOUS, CBS needs to find a way to cut their losses and get rid of that contract cause it's f*CKING up their daytime line up ratings and the soccer itself clearly isn't generating nearly the ratings the soaps are

6 hours ago, Melroser said:

However, it strikes me as the show that would have more people streaming at night after work or on weekends than the other shows. 

From what I see...some people do. So I would love to see the numbers for it.

7 hours ago, Melroser said:

I'm really curious about streaming numbers for all soaps, but especially BTG. I keep hoping that BTG gets larger streaming views. Probably just wishful thinking. However, it strikes me as the show that would have more people streaming at night after work or on weekends than the other shows. 

Every week, www.thetvratingsguide.com publishes lists of the streamers for every day of the week.

Every week, I see DAYS in the Peacock Top 15 for all 5 episodes, and I see GH in the HULU Top 15 for all 5 episodes.

Paramount has no soap or any other daytime show (like the top-rated The Price Is Right) in the Top 15. Looks like it's intentional to ignore all of CBS Daytime, and I just don't get it.

13 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

Every week, www.thetvratingsguide.com publishes lists of the streamers for every day of the week.

Every week, I see DAYS in the Peacock Top 15 for all 5 episodes, and I see GH in the HULU Top 15 for all 5 episodes.

Paramount has no soap or any other daytime show (like the top-rated The Price Is Right) in the Top 15. Looks like it's intentional to ignore all of CBS Daytime, and I just don't get it.

CBS has more popular primetime shows compared to ABC & NBC. Plus 2 slots reserved for whatever Taylor Sheridan is newly streaming & toddlers/stoners watching Spongebob.

17 minutes ago, bongobong said:

CBS has more popular primetime shows compared to ABC & NBC. Plus 2 slots reserved for whatever Taylor Sheridan is newly streaming & toddlers/stoners watching Spongebob.

I'm not comparing CBS to ABC and NBC.

The fact is that CBS/Paramount NEVER list a daytime show in their top streaming shows list. Since DAYS and GH appear on the Peacock and Hulu lists all the time -- for every episode of the week -- it is not realistic to believe that no CBS soap ever hits that Top 15.

I'm not suggesting CBS has no idea how the soaps do on streaming. They clearly do. I just wish we knew something.

20 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

I'm not comparing CBS to ABC and NBC.

The fact is that CBS/Paramount NEVER list a daytime show in their top streaming shows list. Since DAYS and GH appear on the Peacock and Hulu lists all the time -- for every episode of the week -- it is not realistic to believe that no CBS soap ever hits that Top 15.

I'm not suggesting CBS has no idea how the soaps do on streaming. They clearly do. I just wish we knew something.

Thanks for your insight. Interesting...

On 5/9/2025 at 10:40 AM, Melroser said:

 

It's such a shame that arguably the two best episodes of the season so far (Thurs/Fri) were aired on a preemption week. If only it could have had the slow build for the entire week. 

That's so unfortunate. Maybe they need to package a week or two of the Leslie/Ted fallout episodes and re-air them on BET or Pluto like they did the premiere week.

 

On 5/9/2025 at 1:43 PM, dragonflies said:

This soccer sh*t is RIDICULOUS, CBS needs to find a way to cut their losses and get rid of that contract cause it's f*CKING up their daytime line up ratings and the soccer itself clearly isn't generating nearly the ratings the soaps are

It could be a packaged deal that requires CBS to air those daytime games in order to get more lucrative weekend games.

On 5/9/2025 at 7:19 PM, ranger1rg said:

I'm not comparing CBS to ABC and NBC.

The fact is that CBS/Paramount NEVER list a daytime show in their top streaming shows list. Since DAYS and GH appear on the Peacock and Hulu lists all the time -- for every episode of the week -- it is not realistic to believe that no CBS soap ever hits that Top 15.

I'm not suggesting CBS has no idea how the soaps do on streaming. They clearly do. I just wish we knew something.

That's interesting. One would think the CBS soaps could at least crack the top 15 during summer when primetime shows are in reruns. CBS is weird though.

10 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Maybe they need to package a week or two of the Leslie/Ted fallout episodes and re-air them on BET or Pluto like they did the premiere week.

Agree, this is a great idea.

On 5/9/2025 at 6:57 PM, bongobong said:

CBS has more popular primetime shows compared to ABC & NBC. Plus 2 slots reserved for whatever Taylor Sheridan is newly streaming & toddlers/stoners watching Spongebob.

Based on data released by Nielsen today, which highlighted broadcast-only viewership based on most current ratings, it sounds like the CBS soaps at least gain just 300-400,000 viewers when factoring in multiplatform ratings, a far cry from the millions of viewers streaming-only programming typically generates. 

I estimate that General Hospital is the most popular soap opera overall on streaming, with likely more than 1 million viewers, as the Hulu list is not an easy one to get on. With Peacock being anything but a huge success, I presume that DAYS is doing at least 500,000 viewers.

Now, while I'm basing my estimations specifically on Nielsen's tracking, not necessarily data from the streaming services outright, I do think Paramount isn't excluding the success of their daytime shows in their Top 10 lists. I do think that is a true representation of how successful the programs on the platform are, and the CBS daytime shows sadly don't rank in that list. It is possible they could be #11, #12, or even #15.

6 hours ago, Errol said:

Based on data released by Nielsen today, which highlighted broadcast-only viewership based on most current ratings, it sounds like the CBS soaps at least gain just 300-400,000 viewers when factoring in multiplatform ratings, a far cry from the millions of viewers streaming-only programming typically generates. 

I estimate that General Hospital is the most popular soap opera overall on streaming, with likely more than 1 million viewers, as the Hulu list is not an easy one to get on. With Peacock being anything but a huge success, I presume that DAYS is doing at least 500,000 viewers.

Now, while I'm basing my estimations specifically on Nielsen's tracking, not necessarily data from the streaming services outright, I do think Paramount isn't excluding the success of their daytime shows in their Top 10 lists. I do think that is a true representation of how successful the programs on the platform are, and the CBS daytime shows sadly don't rank in that list. It is possible they could be #11, #12, or even #15.

Thank you for the clearer picture. I figured as much.