How have ABC's 2 soap operas

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The long running(it began in 1963)"General Hospital"(the oldest soap opera on TV ),"One Life to Live"(which began in 1968),and "All My Children"(which began in 1970)doing,ratingswise against CBS "The Talk" and the hourlong reboot of "Let's Make A Deal"?

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Oops! I meant 3 soap operas.Sorry.

[JT]

TLK currently averages a rating of 0.8 in the most important demographic (Women 18-49), which is less than OLTL's 1.0. TLK gets about 2.2 million viewers all together each episode, whereas OLTL got 2.6 million last week (2.3 the week before -- supposedly, the snowstorms in the northeast are helping the ABC soaps out a lot).

I'm not sure about LMAD's ratings. GH's current 18-49 rating is a 1.4, and I'm sure that's much higher than anything LMAD has in that demo. GH got 2.8 million viewers last wekk, which I would guess beats LMAD as well.

AMC's CBS competition is typically Y&R and B&B:

Total Viewers for Last Week:
1. Y&R - 5.1 million
2. B&B - 3.0 million
3. AMC - 2.7 million

18-49 averages for the season to date (September - January):
1. Y&R - 1.7
2. B&B - 1.0
3. AMC - 0.9

So, for the demographic that the networks care the most about (Women 18-49), all of ABC's soaps are doing better than The Talk.

http://www.soapoperanetwork.com/soap...-and-abc-soaps

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Originally Posted by JT

TLK currently averages a rating of 0.8 in the most important demographic (Women 18-49), which is less than OLTL's 1.0. TLK gets about 2.2 million viewers all together each episode, whereas OLTL got 2.6 million last week (2.3 the week before -- supposedly, the snowstorms in the northeast are helping the ABC soaps out a lot).

I'm not sure about LMAD's ratings. GH's current 18-49 rating is a 1.4, and I'm sure that's much higher than anything LMAD has in that demo. GH got 2.8 million viewers last wekk, which I would guess beats LMAD as well.

AMC's CBS competition is typically Y&R and B&B:

Total Viewers for Last Week:
1. Y&R - 5.1 million
2. B&B - 3.0 million
3. AMC - 2.7 million

18-49 averages for the season to date (September - January):
1. Y&R - 1.7
2. B&B - 1.0
3. AMC - 0.9

So, for the demographic that the networks care the most about (Women 18-49), all of ABC's soaps are doing better than The Talk.

http://www.soapoperanetwork.com/soap...-and-abc-soaps

If that's the case,especially the part about all of ABC's soaps doing better than The Talk,then how come,as was said on another post The Talk has been renewed for a second season?I don't get it.

[JT]

Well, The Talk (and other non-soap daytime shows...talk shows, game shows, court shows, etc) is much, much cheaper to produce than ATWT was, so it can have less viewers but still make more money than ATWT did.