Re: I wonder if NBC would have kept the show had AW stayed through December 99..... -- Rant and Rave

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Subject: Re: I wonder if NBC would have kept the show had AW stayed through December 99.....

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Date Posted: 16:42:44 05/05/02 Sun
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In reply to: Trey-Trey 's message, "I wonder if NBC would have kept the show had AW stayed through December 99....." on 08:16:19 05/05/02 Sun

>I wonder if NBC would have kept the show had AW stayed >through December 99.....

AW was killed in June so PSSNS could premiere with ratings
higher than SUBE. NBC would have been in a very difficult
situation had they canceled SUBE in June 99. It was all
part of NBCs plan, dump the stronger show 1st, let Passions premiere, get higher ratings than SUBE, cancel SUBE, and air a 2 soap line-up. They didn't give SUBE "one last chance" as they claimed, they used SUBE to make PSSNS look better.

>And it looks like CBS is going to do the exact same thing >to Guiding Light. The ratings are starting to dip(last >week 2.7) and CBS is going to kill it. :(

CBS isn't sabatoging GL like NBC did to AW. CBS wants
GL to succeed, however CBS is also in business to make
money, and when the day comes that GL isn't profitable
anymore, the LIGHT will be turned off.

To me GL is already dead. As is (almost) the entire genre. We are simply in that period of time between death
and the funeral/burial. Or... GL is in a nursing home
with a terminal illness, you know what is going to happen,
you just don't know the day it will happen.

Who knows, maybe something good will come from a
cancelation. At least CBS is likely to replace it
with a new, quality soap, not like the shows NBC has
been launching!

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