Time for my annual question about Guiding Light

[bpatrick]

True to a point. The talk and courtroom shows,
CNN, etc., have eaten into the audiences for all
the soaps, and the audience isn't there--most
women 18-49 are working. But consider that
Y&R, with a rating slightly above a 3, has lower
ratings than GL did when CBS dropped the radio
version in 1956, yet Y&R is number one and by no
means headed for the boneyard. And most of the
soaps have ratings between 1 and 2 (B&B,
I think, is the only other soap with ratings
above 2).

So I think you have to look at what's wrong with
GL in particular. Most of you believe it's the new
look of the show; I think it's the loss of some of
the most popular characters; probably it's a combination
of both.

But my original question, and one I'm not getting answers
to, is: is your local CBS affiliate dropping the show or
downgrading it to the morning (assuming it hasn't already
done so)?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

But my original question, and one I'm not getting answers
to, is: is your local CBS affiliate dropping the show or
downgrading it to the morning (assuming it hasn't already
done so)?

b, I checked zap2it.com for Monday September 8 (which
seems to be the start of the new "daytime" season) and
found these for GL:

Phoenix/Tucson: both in pattern at 2:00 MST (two-hour
delay, or maybe they pick up the left coast feed).

Albuquerque/El Paso/Denver/Salt Lake City/Boise: all are
in pattern at 2:00 MDT (one-hour delay).

I noticed that KRQE ABQ runs ATWT at 10:00 MDT which
would be a one-day delay. KUTV SLC, which is a former
CBS O&O, airs ATWT at 11:00 MDT (I think they also did
when owned by the Eye)--another one-day delay as the
show doesn't come down the bird until 12:00.

 

[YEKIMI]

Maybe soap operas are just getting too old hat. I know back in the 60s and 70s you couldn't get my mom away from the TV with a crowbar when her soaps were on. [I remember in the 70s when I cut my finger badly enough to require stitches, she told me not to bleed on the carpet and she would take me out to the hospital AFTER her soap opera was over]. Nowadays, she watches one soap opera on CBS and even then she'll record it if she is going to be off somewhere doing something else.