ARTICLE: ‘The Young And The Restless’ & ‘General Hospital’ Surge With Significant Year-Over-Year Growth Among Viewers & Key Demos – RATINGS

[Errol]

While there weren’t four weddings and a funeral happening on any of the soaps during the week of July 28-August 1, 2025, the death of a legacy character on “The Young and the Restless,” and the wedding that wasn’t on “General Hospital” saw the two daytime dramas set multi-month or season highs among Total Viewers and the key sales demographics used to sell ads.

CBS’ “The Young and the Restless” was up week-to-week for the fourth consecutive week, attracting its largest overall audience in 22 weeks (since the week of February 24-28, 2025) with 3.171 million viewers tuning in. The show was up +96,000 week-to-week and a mighty +375,000 compared to the same week last year. Among Women 18-49, the long-running series saw its best performance in 17 weeks (since the week of March 31-April 4, 2025) with a 0.21 rating. Meanwhile, among Women 25-54, the soap had its best rating in five weeks with a 0.47 rating. 

After 45 weeks, ABC’s “General Hospital” attracted what appears to be its largest overall audience of the 2024-2025 television season*, while also averaging more than two million viewers for just the second time in six months (since week of February 17-21, 2025). With 2.059 million viewers watching the happenings in Port Charles, the drama had the second-largest week-to-week gain across daytime, up +198,000, and year-over-year, up +224,000.

Demographically, “General Hospital” tied its season high among Women 25-54 (0.36 rating), which was set during the week of January 6-10, 2025. Meanwhile, among Women 18-49, the soap’s 0.21 rating was its best in 10 weeks (since week of May 19-23, 2025), and tied for the show’s third best rating of the season overall.

While not as impressive as the other two soaps, “The Bold and the Beautiful” averaged 2.604 million viewers for the week, its largest in 14 weeks (since the week of April 21-25, 2025), and was also up week-to-week, up +33,000, and year-over-year, up +103,000. 

Despite airing reruns, the second half-hour of “The Price is Right” attracted its largest overall audience in 15 weeks (since the week of April 21-25, 2025), its best performance among Women 25-54 in four weeks (0.62 rating) and set a new season high among Women 18-49 (0.47 rating).

Wrap-Up

What follows is a breakdown of how the daytime broadcast shows performed during the week of July 28-August 1, 2025 among Women 18-49 rating, Women 25-54 rating, including week-to-week and year-over-year performance comparisons.

Note*: Figures under the 2024 column for “Beyond the Gates” are compared to the performance of the former time slot occupant, “The Talk,” which aired amended repeats during the comparable week last year. “TODAY with Jenna & Friends” is compared with the performance of its predecessor, “TODAY with Hoda & Jenna.” Meanwhile, “GMA3” is compared with the performance of its predecessor, “GMA3: What You Need to Know.”

NBC aired the Olympics during the same week last year. As a result, year-over-year comparisons for the network’s programming are not available.

“The View” aired originals during the comparable week last year.

With the game show airing amended repeats, demos for “Let’s Make a Deal” were not available. The show also aired amended repeats during the same week last year.

Households and Total Viewers for “TODAY 3rd Hour” and “TODAY with Jenna & Friends” were unavailable at press time.

Week of July 28-August 1, 2025 Rankers

Women 18-49 Rating

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS) – R	0.47	0.38	0.34
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS) – R	0.37	0.36	0.31
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	0.31	0.26	0.23
4. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	0.26	0.22	0.21
5. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	0.24	0.27	N/A*
6. General Hospital (ABC)	0.21	0.19	0.18
7. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	0.19	0.20	N/A*
8. View-ABC (ABC) – R	0.18	0.24	0.17*
9. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	0.17	0.19	N/A*
— GMA3 (ABC)	0.17	0.14	0.11
11. NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.14	0.13	N/A*
NR. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS) – R	NR*	NR*	NR*
NR. Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS) – R	NR*	NR*	NR*

Source: Nielsen (Live+Same Day) – July 28 – August 1, 2025

Women 25-54 Rating

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS) – R	0.62	0.53	0.52
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS) – R	0.51	0.50	0.48
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	0.47	0.43	0.42
4. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	0.41	0.40	N/A*
5. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	0.40	0.37	0.36
6. General Hospital (ABC)	0.36	0.32	0.29
7. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	0.31	0.32	N/A*
8. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	0.30	0.30	N/A*
9. View-ABC (ABC) – R	0.25	0.35	0.28*
10. NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.21	0.21	N/A*
— GMA3 (ABC)	0.21	0.21	0.17*
NR. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS) – R	NR*	NR*	NR*
NR. Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS) – R	NR*	NR*	NR*

Source: Nielsen (Live+Same Day) – July 28 – August 1, 2025

Households

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS) – R	2.4	2.3	2.2
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS) – R	2.1	2.0	2.0
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	2.0	1.9	1.9
4. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	1.7	1.6	1.7
5. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS) – R	1.4	1.3	1.3
6. General Hospital (ABC)	1.2	1.2	1.2
— Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS) – R	1.2	1.2	1.1
8. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	1.0	1.0	0.6
9. View-ABC (ABC) – R	0.9	1.5	1.6*
10. GMA3 (ABC)	0.7	0.8	0.8
— NBC News Daily (NBC)	0.7	0.7	N/A*
N/A. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*
N/A. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*

Source: Nielsen (Live+Same Day) – July 28 – August 1, 2025

Total Viewers (In Millions)

Rank / Show / Network	This Week	Last Week	2024
1. The Price is Right 2 (CBS) – R	4,025	3,744	N/A*
2. The Price is Right 1 (CBS) – R	3,477	3,342	N/A*
3. The Young and the Restless (CBS)	3,171	3,075	2,796
4. The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)	2,604	2,571	2,501
5. Let’s Make a Deal 2 (CBS) – R	2,266	2,174	N/A*
6. General Hospital (ABC)	2,059	1,861	1,835
7. Let’s Make a Deal 1 (CBS) – R	1,893	1,843	N/A*
8. Beyond the Gates (CBS)	1,515	1,556	N/A*
9. View-ABC (ABC) – R	1,470	2,343	2,351*
10. NBC News Daily (NBC)	1,208	1,143	N/A*
11. GMA3 (ABC)	1,179	1,256	1,211*
N/A. TODAY 3rd Hour (NBC)	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*
N/A. TODAY with Jenna & Friends (NBC)	N/A*	N/A*	N/A*

Source: Nielsen (Live+Same Day) – July 28 – August 1, 2025

The numbers above are calculated using Live+Same Day viewing and DVR playback, defined as 3:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m., and are courtesy of Nielsen. Ratings are the percentage of TV viewers in the U.S. who tuned into a specific television program.

Beginning August 31, 2020, national ratings include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Previously, ratings did not include OOH viewing. Averages are based on regular telecasts.

LEGEND

P = Premiere	R = Repeat	S = Special
NR = Not Rated / Not Ranked	N/A = Not Available	* denotes further information

Summary (Preemptions/Schedule Changes)*

• At press time, Households and Total Viewers were not available for “TODAY 3rd Hour” and “TODAY with Jenna & Friends” during the week of July 28-August 1, 2025.
• “Let’s Make a Deal” aired amended repeats. The show’s ratings will not factor into its season average.
• “The Price is Right” aired amended repeats. The show’s ratings will not factor into its season average.
• “The View” aired amended repeats. The show’s ratings will not factor into its season average.

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[Liberty City]

Surprised GH surged. But it's good seeing Y&R continuing; audiences must be enjoying the soap. Visually, it is gorgeous, but story-wise, it does make me want a bit more.

[skiman12082004]

I watch Y&R daily and it's not good. It's so surprising to me that it's doing as well as it is the ratings.

It is unbelievable to me that BTG went down, even if it was ever so slightly. 

I'm happy for GH. The "wedding" was very dramatic and well done.

As for B&B, I got nothing.

[bongobong]

Fortunate timing for Bold that its Italy remote aired during a heatwave.

Edited August 5 by bongobong

[bongobong]

Edit: Ooops, BTG has only been on for 5 months, will bump in a month. Sorry!

Edited August 5 by bongobong

[Soapsuds]

I didn't get to see the soaps last week. I need to go back and watch at least Monday's episode of General Hospital.

 

Great week for General Hospital. Surprised its household numbers didn't go up.

 

Beyond the Gates numbers dropped. No increase at all for Anita's story. A flop!

Edited August 6 by Soapsuds

[glfaninnyc]

Not surprised GH increased. The cliffhanger the Friday before certainly made you want to tune in the next week. 

[janea4old]

I suggest watching Friday Aug 1st and Monday August 4th of BTG.  Really wonderful episodes, especially August 4th. Anita's story was not a flop.  If people tuned out it wasn't because of her.   More likely that people started tuning out because of Ashley Tues July 29.

Edited August 8 by janea4old

[Soapsuds]

Thanks! I haven't watched much soaps the last two weeks.