Ratings for the week February 2-6, 2026

What the heck happened to BTG Thursday and Friday??? 😳😳😳

7 hours ago, skiman12082004 said:

What the heck happened to BTG Thursday and Friday??? 😳😳

I believe Thursday ratings were impacted by B&B's preemption by CBS News in the Eastern time zones which didn't wrap up until a minute or two after when BTG would have started. So the show possibly loss B&B viewers that usually stick around and maybe even some who thought BTG was going to be preempted, too because of that first minute or so being cut off.

Edited February 16Feb 16 by crc
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4 hours ago, crc said:

I believe Thursday ratings were impacted by B&B's preemption by CBS News in the Eastern time zones which didn't wrap up until a minute or two after when BTG would have started. So the show possibly loss B&B viewers that usually stick around and maybe even some who thought BTG was going to be preempted, too because of that first minute or so being cut off.

I had forgotten about that preemption on Thursday.

General Hospital started on time, and I do remember Beyond the Gates beginning a minute or so later.

16 hours ago, crc said:

I believe Thursday ratings were impacted by B&B's preemption by CBS News in the Eastern time zones which didn't wrap up until a minute or two after when BTG would have started. So the show possibly loss B&B viewers that usually stick around and maybe even some who thought BTG was going to be preempted, too because of that first minute or so being cut off.

I agree, the loss of Bold on Thursday most certainly hurt BTG that day. It still would have had an awful week in the demos if Bold had aired that day, but it probably wouldn't have matched (W18-49 - 54%) or set new (W25-54 - below 64%) demo retention lows.

The only consistency with BTG that I seem to notice is that Thursday seems to be a very weak spot for them in terms of ratings.

It's interesting that the new way Nielsen is calculated, BTG seems to be up in total viewers but down in the demos.