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<blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 419729" data-attributes="member: 19949">GH has suffered a little, but I don&#039;t think it will lose many viewers in the long run. Here are the same day ratings, and GH was even ahead of BTG:: <a href="https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/daytime-broadcast-ratings-total-viewers-households-february-24-28-2025" target="_blank">https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/daytime-broadcast-ratings-total-viewers-households-february-24-28-2025</a>What is definitely a cause for concern is the difference in viewership between BTG (1.8 million) and Y&amp;R (3.2 million) and B&amp;B (2.6 million), and that was just the premiere week. What will it look like in a month? Soap Opera Network (and CBS and Paramount, of course, too) is celebrating BTG as a huge success, but that&#039;s their job. When NBC News Daily took over the timeslot from Days of our Lives, this site acted on the ratings as if Days would have to return in a week or two after News Daily&#039;s poor premiere ratings, but nothing happened.One advantage is that many (over five million) were actually interested in BTG, as this article shows:: <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/beyond-the-gates-cbs-ratings-first-week-1236312805/" target="_blank">https://deadline.com/2025/03/beyond-the-gates-cbs-ratings-first-week-1236312805/</a>The way the numbers are twisted in this press release can be seen by comparing it to the premiere of Passions. Back then, the official TV ratings were still live ratings, whereas nowadays everything is included in press releases, so the premiere of Passions, including the people who recorded it on VCRs at the time, certainly had more viewers than BTG.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monzo, post: 419729, member: 19949"] GH has suffered a little, but I don't think it will lose many viewers in the long run. Here are the same day ratings, and GH was even ahead of BTG:: [URL]https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/daytime-broadcast-ratings-total-viewers-households-february-24-28-2025[/URL] What is definitely a cause for concern is the difference in viewership between BTG (1.8 million) and Y&R (3.2 million) and B&B (2.6 million), and that was just the premiere week. What will it look like in a month? Soap Opera Network (and CBS and Paramount, of course, too) is celebrating BTG as a huge success, but that's their job. When NBC News Daily took over the timeslot from Days of our Lives, this site acted on the ratings as if Days would have to return in a week or two after News Daily's poor premiere ratings, but nothing happened. One advantage is that many (over five million) were actually interested in BTG, as this article shows:: [URL]https://deadline.com/2025/03/beyond-the-gates-cbs-ratings-first-week-1236312805/[/URL] The way the numbers are twisted in this press release can be seen by comparing it to the premiere of Passions. Back then, the official TV ratings were still live ratings, whereas nowadays everything is included in press releases, so the premiere of Passions, including the people who recorded it on VCRs at the time, certainly had more viewers than BTG. [/QUOTE]

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