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SOAPnet Killing Daytime Soaps?; Cable net gets highest ratings in 2 yrs
Topic Started: Oct 28 2008, 03:14 PM (1,664 Views)
PhoenixRising05
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^I agree.

I believe Days did drop off but I don't think it would've been as bad if they didn't toss it around all over the place. Plus, they stopped promoting it. That doesn't help. Rick did make a point...Days is more late night then primetime so their numbers were excluded and, even if they counted, they would be low anyway considering it gets bumped by NS Tuesday nights.

Soapnet needs to lose the movies (which won't happen as they seem to be doing well) and get back to the basics...the soaps. I just can't understand how the soaps can pull in numbers like this and seem like an afterthought on the network. That is what they come off as. I mean, AMC doesn't even get a marathon. Speaking of which, I bet AMC's big tornado stunt helped these numbers big time. That is probably the major reason and people stuck with it the whole lineup. Y&R probably gets high numbers all the time so the ABC soaps were probably the biggest beneficiaries.

Seeing these numbers, more and more I think this is where soaps will end up...on cable. No one is home during the day and if soaps are pulling in numbers like this, primetime is probably the best place for them and it's been said for years how places with soaps on in late afternoon and evening do better. I'm beginning to think that is why Frons got the job at Soapnet and why he still has a job...because the plan is to move the ABC shows over to Soapnet. Just a though.

This is why I always said Soapnet ratings should in some way count. I know it's unfair to those who aren't on Soapnet but people are still viewing these shows and that should count. yes, the count in primetime numbers but daytime numbers are of more relevance here and seeing these numbers, it seems most of the viewers are watching at night and not during the day and I feel these shows are getting short-changed in the ratings. Even though Days has low numbers, I'm sure whatever audience it pulls in would help them in some way too if it was counted.
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PhoenixRising05
Oct 30 2008, 01:24 AM
^I agree.

I believe Days did drop off but I don't think it would've been as bad if they didn't toss it around all over the place. Plus, they stopped promoting it. That doesn't help. Rick did make a point...Days is more late night then primetime so their numbers were excluded and, even if they counted, they would be low anyway considering it gets bumped by NS Tuesday nights.

Soapnet needs to lose the movies (which won't happen as they seem to be doing well) and get back to the basics...the soaps. I just can't understand how the soaps can pull in numbers like this and seem like an afterthought on the network. That is what they come off as. I mean, AMC doesn't even get a marathon. Speaking of which, I bet AMC's big tornado stunt helped these numbers big time. That is probably the major reason and people stuck with it the whole lineup. Y&R probably gets high numbers all the time so the ABC soaps were probably the biggest beneficiaries.

Seeing these numbers, more and more I think this is where soaps will end up...on cable. No one is home during the day and if soaps are pulling in numbers like this, primetime is probably the best place for them and it's been said for years how places with soaps on in late afternoon and evening do better. I'm beginning to think that is why Frons got the job at Soapnet and why he still has a job...because the plan is to move the ABC shows over to Soapnet. Just a though.

This is why I always said Soapnet ratings should in some way count. I know it's unfair to those who aren't on Soapnet but people are still viewing these shows and that should count. yes, the count in primetime numbers but daytime numbers are of more relevance here and seeing these numbers, it seems most of the viewers are watching at night and not during the day and I feel these shows are getting short-changed in the ratings. Even though Days has low numbers, I'm sure whatever audience it pulls in would help them in some way too if it was counted.
i quit watching soapnet for good when they pushed sunday nights in salem to early monday mornings in salem. the show just came on too late or early for me to watch it, so i gave it up. seeing days' time slot replaced with shows out on dvd like 90210 and melrose place did not help matters, so i just quit watching the network all together. they also have a nasty habit of pre-empting days for no good reason to show things like the OC and the like.

soapnet is no friend of days, so they're no friend of mine. also, their name is a total misnomer. they don't seem to be all about soaps anymore.
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I just checked my Tivo and it looks like SoapNet has completely gotten rid of the Days of Our Lives weekend marathon and replaced it with an All My Children one. They have started to show Days though three times a night (in the east that is) 11 pm, 4 am and then 10 am.
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I haven't checked SoapNet's schedules lately, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Days marathon disappeared from the early Monday morning (late Sunday night) schedule. I saw they were trying to do that when they moved them to that kind of schedule anyway. The Tuesday night (11 pm ET) schedule only airs when it's convenient to SoapNet (when there's no Night Shift episode to air) and Thursday night's episode disappeared for the other canceled Canadian soap they kept there until they run through their episodes.

I think they tried to get Days off their schedule once they realized how competitive it had become against AMC and OLTL with the ratings all three were experiencing. They could afford to keep Y&R front and center since it towered over all the other soaps (even GH) and gave them added ratings. Either way, SoapNet has been on my ignore list for awhile unless Days has major interruptions on the day it's aired by NBC and then I try to catch it the next day on SoapNet. For the rest of the time, I would just as soon watch H&G TV as to stay tuned to SoapNet. I loved them when they first started, but not anymore.

Loretta
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