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New Daytime Soap Opera at CBS In Development

bpatrick said:
Eastern time zone schedules differ from the other time zones in that the others follow the Central time zone pattern. In other words, The Price Is Right airs at 11 AM Eastern but 10 AM everywhere else. The choice-of-timeslots for Y&R is not offered to the Eastern time zone; it's 12:30 or delay the show, as is the case in Louisville. All other time zones have the option of 11 or 11:30 AM. NBC News Daily is offered four times and the affiliate has a choice of when to air it. Most markets carry it at 1 PM (local time) but there are exceptions: WRC in Washington carries it at 3 as a lead-in to its 4 PM local news.

CBS affiliates on the West Coast have always followed Central Time scheduling; ABC's used to follow Eastern but dropped the practice when KABC and KGO started 5 PM local newscasts in 1974 and needed time for their afternoon movies at 3:30. At one point, Edge of Night was on at 11 AM Pacific, and there were a few other deviations, but the West Coast eventually came to follow Central time. NBC used to have a weird practice of airing the morning shows from 9 AM-noon, then--rather than give the affiliates a half-hour to themselves--would go straight into the show that aired at 1:30 Eastern/12:30 Central. In the early '70s this meant that the game show Three on a Match was on at noon on the West Coast, followed by Days of Our Lives at 12:30, The Doctors at 1, Another World at 1:30, Return to Peyton Place at 2, and Somerset at 2:30; affiliate time started at 3. I don't know when this practice ended.

But re Beyond the Gates, there will be no choice of when to run it; it will be 2 PM (ET)/1 PM everywhere else.
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When my grandmother watched NBC's soaps in the 70s, it was Days of Our Lives at 2, The Doctors at 2:30, then Another World at 3 and Return to Peyton Place at 3:30, all on WYFF/4 Greeneville/Asheville and this was Eastern time. WSPA aired Love of Life at Noon in 1980 in Asheville, and that's how she saw Betsy Crawford (Margo McKenna) collapse while leaving the stand and it blew her mind that soaps would have something like that to end a series. WSPA ddin't have a noon newscast then.
 
Right, but you were in the Eastern time zone, and in 1980 WSPA was delaying Love of Life from 4 PM to noon. My point was the different feeds for the West Coast, particularly NBC's.
 
Beyond the Gates is a ratings success:

michaelfairmantv.com

RATINGS: ‘Beyond the Gates’ Tops ‘General Hospital’ in its Premiere Week

In a very positive sign for its future, Beyond the Gates, daytime’s first new network soap opera since 1999, scored with viewers and the Nielsen ratings data for its premiere week of February 24-28th. Beyond the Gates which goes head to head with General Hospital in their time slot, bested the...
michaelfairmantv.com michaelfairmantv.com
 
Beyond the Gates may be a winner. The critical reviews have been positive and in its first week it beat General Hospital head-to-head, as well as helping Bold and the Beautiful. If you live in an ABC o&o market you don't have to make a choice; GH is on at 3/2 (I'm in one such market and WTVD/11 is an ABC o&o) so it doesn't go head-to-head with BTG at 2/1. I don't know how much difference that makes but at least where they go against each other GH may have to start worrying.

I can think of only one other soap that got off to a fast start like this, and that was Edge of Night in 1956. The connection to the radio version of Perry Mason helped (John Larkin, radio's Mason, was the original Mike Karr on EON). But not ATWT, not GH, not Y&R...none came roaring out of the gate and near the top of the ratings.
 
genius said:
Beyond the Gates is a ratings success:

michaelfairmantv.com

RATINGS: ‘Beyond the Gates’ Tops ‘General Hospital’ in its Premiere Week

In a very positive sign for its future, Beyond the Gates, daytime’s first new network soap opera since 1999, scored with viewers and the Nielsen ratings data for its premiere week of February 24-28th. Beyond the Gates which goes head to head with General Hospital in their time slot, bested the...
michaelfairmantv.com michaelfairmantv.com
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The article mentions: "As for General Hospital, the launch of Beyond the Gates marks the first time since the cancellation of As the World Turns in 2010, that the ABC daytime drama has had another show within its genre competing against it in the same time slot."

I just had to roll my eyes :rolleyes:
 
It was speculated earlier in the thread about episodes airing on BET, and now that looks to happen with a limited primetime run along with a weekend omnibus edition:

www.soapoperanetwork.com

BET To Air Encores Of 'Beyond the Gates' In Primetime For Limited Run

For what is understood to be a limited time, cable network BET will carry encores of at least the first ten episodes of "Beyond the Gates" in primetime.
www.soapoperanetwork.com www.soapoperanetwork.com
 
danderson6500 said:
When my grandmother watched NBC's soaps in the 70s, it was Days of Our Lives at 2, The Doctors at 2:30, then Another World at 3 and Return to Peyton Place at 3:30, all on WYFF/4 Greeneville/Asheville and this was Eastern time. WSPA aired Love of Life at Noon in 1980 in Asheville, and that's how she saw Betsy Crawford (Margo McKenna) collapse while leaving the stand and it blew her mind that soaps would have something like that to end a series. WSPA ddin't have a noon newscast then.
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bpatrick said:
Right, but you were in the Eastern time zone, and in 1980 WSPA was delaying Love of Life from 4 PM to noon. My point was the different feeds for the West Coast, particularly NBC's.
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Actually they couldn't do that. It was a broadcast from the previous day (Which meant Friday broadcasts would air on Monday)

As for the episode itself, you can find it on YouTube (Followed by the report on the CBS Evening News that night)
 
JeeperOne said:
Just as there's some room for optimism that more streaming only soaps like DOOL could be added to the mix which currently sits at one - DOOL on Peacock
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AbrahamJSimpson said:
There’s really not.
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Well streaming IS the future (VERY NEAR future) of Soap Operas (No matter WHO produces & airs them) & if BTG doesn't succed on CBS, it will be relegated to Paramount+

I think you & I can both agree on that
 
I gave up watching Beyond the Gates after two weeks. The two evil female characters were getting on my nerves, and their psycho ideas were already getting repetitive.
 
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