CBS Extends Daytime Leadership To 39 Seasons

On the heels of revealing its primetime programs prepare for 2025-26, CBS, the most-watched broadcast network, has actually likewise verified another year of audience success in daytime. Comparably, CBS has actually been No. 1 in overall audiences in daytime for 39 successive years – considering that the 1986-87 season.

So, exactly what was CBS airing because 1986-87 season? There were 3 present residents – The Cost is Right (then hosted by Bob Barker), The Young and the Uneasy and The Strong in the Beautiful, which changed daytime drama Capitol in midseason. There were likewise video game programs The $25,000 Pyramid and Card Sharks and the drama As the World Turns. At present, current daytime drama entry Beyond the Gates ( which changed The Talk) signed up with The Cost Is Right, The Young and the Uneasy, The Strong and the Lovely and Let’s Negotiate on the Eye net lineup.

CBS’ weekly winning streak – now at 1,500 successive weeks – began the week of October 3, 1988, and was disrupted for just one week – from July 22-29, 1996, throughout the Summertime Olympics kept in Atlanta and relayed on NBC.

As first-run syndication, particularly talk programs, continues to decrease, the trio of CBS daytime stalwarts – The Cost Is Right ( 3.95 million audiences this season), The Young and the Uneasy (3.29 million) and The Strong and the Lovely ( 2.79 million) – hold the leading 3 areas in general. Let’s Negotiate, on the other hand, is balancing 2.21 million audiences and Beyond the Gates ( 1.87 million), which debuted on February 24, ranks 5th. However that is still 48 percent above year-ago period resident The Talk