Alternate Timeline: Dennis James Gets the Daytime Price is Right

[TLEberle]

It sounds like you could tell us, Dan.

[PYLdude]

I've always wondered about how the ratings for Price is Right and Another World were at 3:00. AW was the #1 soap, while TPIR was the #1 game show then.

Another World was never the #1 soap; As the World Turns was #1 for twenty straight seasons, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._daytime_soap_opera_ratings (which uses Soap Opera Encyclopedia as it source; apparently those numbers came from the Nielsen ratings).  Another World was a solid #2 or #3 during the early to mid 1970s.

TPIR didn't hit #1 until 1979-1980, per EoTVGS - in fact, it was only in the top three once until 1978-1979.

Prefaced with "outright". AW tied for the lead a couple of times, with the last coming the same year that ATWT last led the ratings pack.

[calliaume]

Another World was never the #1 soap; As the World Turns was #1 for twenty straight seasons, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._daytime_soap_opera_ratings (which uses Soap Opera Encyclopedia as it source; apparently those numbers came from the Nielsen ratings).  Another World was a solid #2 or #3 during the early to mid 1970s.

Prefaced with "outright". AW tied for the lead a couple of times, with the last coming the same year that ATWT last led the ratings pack.

You're correct.  I scanned through the Wikipedia article too quickly.

So, from October 1973- April 1974, the 3 PM/4 PM time slot competition looked like this:

CBS:  3:00 - The (New) Price Is Right/3:30 - Match Game '7X
NBC:  3:00 - Another World/3:30 - Return to Peyton Place/How to Survive a Marriage
ABC:  3:00 - General Hospital/One Life to Live

I would love to see what the actual ratings were for the two games during that season.  (I could scan through all the back issues of Broadcasting magazine, but I really don't have that kind of time.)  Another World had a 9.7 rating and General Hospital a 9.2; if Price was in that ballpark it means nearly 30 percent of all the households with a television set had them on at 3:00 in the afternoon and were watching one of those three programs (apparently the total number of television households in in 1974 was roughly 66.8 million).

[snowpeck]

I would love to see what the actual ratings were for the two games during that season.  (I could scan through all the back issues of Broadcasting magazine, but I really don't have that kind of time.)  Another World had a 9.7 rating and General Hospital a 9.2; if Price was in that ballpark it means nearly 30 percent of all the households with a television set had them on at 3:00 in the afternoon and were watching one of those three programs (apparently the total number of television households in in 1974 was roughly 66.8 million).

All I could find in Broadcasting were season-to-date numbers through 5/12/74, but Price had a rating of 6.4 and Match Game '74 had a 10.1. The same article had General Hospital at 9.2 and Another World at 9.6. How to Survive a Marriage had a 6.3 and One Life to Live a 7.9.

The article points out that MG74's staggering ratings are largely a result of younger viewers, saying that "took some of the bloom off the rose."

[Jamey Greek]

Let's say James does the daytime version up until his death in 1997.

Who takes the show over at that time?

I would say Bob Goen