Last Week's Daytime Nielsen Ratings

From the ABC Daytime Ratings release for the week of June 2-6, 2008: * ABC clinched its fourth consecutive victory as Daytime's No. 1 network in Women 18-49 (1.4 rating/909,000), defeating key competitors NBC and CBS by a sizeable 17% (vs. 1.2 rating apiece). * In Women 18-34, ABC was home to Daytime's Top 3 programs with "General Hospital," "One Life to Live" and "The View" stacked at No. 1 with 1.0 ratings apiece. * For the second straight week, "One Life to Live" was Daytime's No. 2-ranked program in Women 18-49 (1.5 rating/966,000), surpassing time period rival CBS' "As the World Turns" by a sizeable 36% (1.1 rating/715,000). * In Women 18-49, all ABC programs ranked among Daytime's Top 5, marking the second straight week the network has owned 4 the Top 5, and the 9th straight week the net has owned at least 3 of the Top 5: "General Hospital" (No. 2T, 1.5 rating/1.01 million), "One Life to Live" (No. 2T, 1.5 rating/966,000), "All My Children" (No. 4T, 1.3 rating/832,000) and "The View" (No. 4T, 1.3 rating/831,000). * In Women 18-34, ABC delivered Daytime's Top 3 programs, marking the 9th consecutive week the network has placed 3 among the Top 5: "General Hospital" (No. 1T, 1.0 rating/349,000), "One Life to Live" (No. 1T, 1.0 rating/337,000) and "The View" (No. 1T, 1.0 rating/320,000). * Continuing its dominance of Daytime's 3 o'clock hour, "General Hospital" overshadowed time period competitor CBS' "Guiding Light" by a robust 148% in Women 18-34 (349,000 vs. 141,000), by 61% in Women 18-49 (1.01 million vs. 627,000) and by 32% in Total Viewers (2.93 million vs. 2.22 million). Following are the Daytime Lineup averages, plus Top 5 Programs Ranks - Week of June 2, 2008:Daytime Rank: Total Viewers Women 18-49 (Rtg/000s) No. 1 CBS 3.51 million No. 1 ABC 1.4/909,000 No. 2 ABC 2.97 million No. 1 NBC 1.2/781,000 No. 3 NBC 2.40 million No. 3 CBS 1.2/776,000 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 1.5/1.01 million One Life to Live ABC 1.5/966,000 Bold and the Beautiful CBS 1.3/845,000 All My Children ABC 1.3/832,000

NY Pre-Daytime Emmy Party

Several New York soap stars attended Marcia Tovsky's 19th Annual Pre-Daytime Emmy Awards Party held at Nikki Midtown last night including Ewa Da Cruz, Kristen Alderson, BethAnn Bonner and Melissa Claire Egan. 1 Other stars in attendance included Ilene Kristen, Van Hansis, Colin Egglesfield, Amanda Baker, Jason Tam, Brittany Underwood, Brandon Buddy, Marnie Schulenberg, Billy Magnussen, Dylan Bruce, Caitlin Van Zandt, John Driscoll, Bonnie Dennison, Bree Williamson, Trent Dawson, Marie Wilson, Billy Miller, Jon Prescott, January LaVoy, Kevin Spirtas, Jessica Leccia, Yaya DaCosta, Sterling Sulieman and Brianne Moncrief.