Daytime Nielsen Ratings Week of Jan. 26-30, 2009

From the ABC ratings release:
* For the second straight week, ABC was Daytime's No. 1 network in Women 18-49 (1.4 rating/938,000 - tied on rating).

* This week stood as THE VIEW's most-watched week in Total Viewers since the week of the Presidential Election (4.67 million, week of 11/3/08), and posted its best Women 18-34 (406,000) and Women 18-49 (1.06 million) delivery in nine weeks - since week of 11/24/08. Also impressive, for the first time in almost two years (since week of 4/30/07), THE VIEW delivered more than one million key Women 18-49 viewers each day: Monday 1.06 million; Tuesday 1.03 million; Wednesday 1.13 million; Thursday 1.04 million; Friday 1.03 million.

* For the fourth week running, THE VIEW ranked as Daytime's No. 3 program in Total Viewers (4.67 million), and a high ranking No. 2 in Women 18-34 (1.2 rating/406,000) and Women 18-49 (1.6 rating/1.03 million - tie).

* As the biotoxin story continues, GENERAL HOSPITAL produced its largest Total Viewer audience in nine months (3.00 million, since week of 4/21/08), and posted best-in-5-month numbers in Women 18-49 (1.03 million, since week of 9/8/08).

* ALL MY CHILDREN posted strong gains over last week, up by 14% in Women 18-34 (329,000 vs. 288,000) and by 11% in Women 18-49 (855,000 vs. 772,000), placing No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, versus competitive programming.

* ABC delivered 3 of the week's Top 5 programs in Daytime in key Women 18-49 with THE VIEW (No. 2T - 1.6 rating/1.06 million), GENERAL HOSPITAL (No. 2T - 1.6 rating/1.03 million) and ALL MY CHILDREN (No. 5T - 1.3 rating/855,000).

Following are the Daytime Lineup averages, plus Top 5 Programs Ranks - Week of January 26, 2009:


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


Source: NTI, Live + Same Day: Week of 1/26/09. All ranks are based on rating unless otherwise noted All percent changes based on 000s.)

From Soap Opera Nework:
Total Viewers (Compared to Last Week/Compared to Last Year)
1. Y&R 5,664,000 (+447,000/-348,000)
2. B&B 3,981,000 (+400,000/-111,000)
3. DAYS 3,051,000 (+62,000/+192,000)
4. ATWT 3,023,000 (+355,000/-92,000)
5. GH 3,000,000 (+229,000/-122,000)
6. AMC 2,751,000 (+145,000/-33,000)
7. OLTL 2,583,000 (+105,000/-81,000)
8. GL 2,355,000 (+303,000/-228,000)