ABC's 'General Hospital' and 'The View' top daytime programming

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ABC is Daytime’s No. 1 Network Among Women 18-49. “General Hospital,” “The View” and “One Life to Live” Rank Among Daytime’s Top 5 Programs in Women 18-49.


“The View” Hits a 15-Week High in Total Viewers, 14-Week High Among Women 18-34 and Women 25-54, and 6-Week High Among Women 18-49.

 “One Life to Live” Delivers its Largest Margin of Victory Over CBS’ “The Talk,” Surpassing the Time Period Competitor by 27% Among Women 18-34, by 40% Among Women 18-49 and by 50% Among Women 25-54.

ABC Daytime:

ABC ranked as daytime’s No. 1 network among Women 18-49 (1.1 rating/707,000 – tied)

Among Women 18-49, “General Hospital” (No. 2 – 1.3 rating/848,000), “The View” (No. 3 – 1.2 rating/765,000) and “One Life to Live” (No. 5T – 1.0 rating/679,000) ranked among Daytime’s Top 5 programs.

This week stood as “The View’s” most-watched week in 15 weeks among Total Viewers (3.66 million), in 14 weeks among Women 18-34 (267,000) and Women 25-54 (999,000) and in 6 weeks among Women 18-49 (765,000) – since weeks of 7/26/10, 8/2/10 and 9/27/10, respectively.

At 2 o’clock, “One Life to Live” defeated “The Talk” by its largest percent margin to date: By 27% among Women 18-34 (229,000 vs. 181,000), by 40% among Women 18-49 (679,000 vs. 485,000) and by 50% among Women 25-54 (882,000 vs. 587,000).

Following are the Daytime Lineup averages, plus Top 5 Programs Ranks – Week of November 8, 2010:

Daytime Rank:        Total Viewers                Women 18-49 (Rtg/000s)
                No. 1 CBS    3.55 million        No. 1T NBC   1.1/721,000
                No. 2 ABC    2.71 million        No. 1T ABC   1.1/707,000
                No. 3 NBC    2.50 million        No. 3 CBS    1.0/658,000

Top 5 Daytime Programs in Women 18-49 (rank based on rating)

Program                    Net                 Rtg/000s
The Young & the Restless   CBS   1.7/1.10 million
General Hospital           ABC   1.3/848,000
The View    ABC   1.2/765,000
Days of Our Lives           NBC   1.1/721,000
One Life to Live           ABC   1.0/679,000
Bold and the Beautiful CBS   1.0/647,000

(Source: ABC –  NTI, Live + Same Day:  Week of 11/8/10. “The Talk” to date: 10/18-11/12/10. “As the World Turns” year-ago: 10/19-11/13/09. All ranks/ties based on rating unless otherwise noted)