The long running soap opera will only air Monday & Friday this coming week as ABC will air the Wild Card Playoff series between The Tampa Bay Rays and The Texas Rangers. Also, GMA3 will be pre-empted on several West Coast ABC stations this Tue, Wed and Thursday.
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General Hospital takes 3 days off!
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Um, ok?
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😂 I wouldn't expect the Rangers to be grabbing a lot of eyeballs even down here. Lost to the Mariners 1-0, handing the AL West to the Astros. It's been a serious roller coaster ride over in Arlington this year. I wish them luck, but getting past the Orioles with what we've got would be a very tall order.
maybe not even in their own local markets
They'll all do fine in their home markets. All MLB teams have fan bases, even if they don't fill the ballpark often.
Some of this gotta be the writers strike that halted production of scripted shows. At least Disney provided other programming to offset issues over scripted shows having to halt production for some time.
No, it doesn’t. ABC carried wild card games last year as well.
This is the first year for the best-of-three wild card format, though, isn't it? All first-round series in the COVID mini-season of 2020 were best of three; were they on ABC or ESPN?
2022 was the best of 3 format. ABC had a Phils/Cards game, ESPN had the second and the third wasn’t needed. Frankly didn’t care much about the other series 😉😉
The 3 and 4 p.m. games will be beaten by anything else in their time slots except in the teams' home markets. It doesn't help that one of the teams in those afternoon games is in Canada.
I'm sure MLB was hoping for more marquee teams and players in this postseason, after a regular season that's seen attendance up in all but a couple of cities and TV ratings generally better, but what can you do? Other than the Braves and Dodgers, the teams with national followings and superstars just weren't very good at actually winning games. New York, Chicago, and the Bay Area have no reason to tune in. That spells ratings apocalypse right through the World Series, no matter who gets there.
The national EAS test is turning people into zombies or some such. Two apocalypses in a month’s time seems a bit much.
Seems a little extreme a reaction for Taylor Swift to show up at Chiefs games.
JeeperOne
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Except Soap Operas (The genre isn't as popular as it once was
It will be close. I haven't seen the numbers. Have you?
JeeperOne
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Not even close. This ain't the 1980s when NBC & ABC shared the MLB postseason rights & some games (Mostly on ABC) were on during the day along with soap operas & game shows & did better than everything EXCEPT soap operas & game shows where the games lost out HANDS DOWN
THESE DAYS - The shoe is on the other foot as sports beats soap operas, game shows & even gab fest talk shows
Dems just the facts Jack
Can we get verification of the ratings for the 3 p.m. EST games vs. the normal ratings for the soaps in that time slot? Numbers, please.
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