This is so selfish of the networks but I am not surprised! I will still be watching Y-R and Days as well as GH. I don’t plan to stop viewing them because these wonderful shows are back. I am just going to ad them back into my viewing schedule. And truthfully with the new online versions that will be much easier!! Prospect Park is forging ahead and as I fan I will support them any way I can!!

Can’t wait. I think ABC is afraid of the fall out. They really messed up when they cancelled these two shows, and would “have egg on their face” to now advertise them and watch as the shows absolutely take off!! It’s going to be an adjustment for sure, but I for one have no doubt that this will be an amazing journey as OLTL and AMC return, survive and become even more popular than before!!! ABC you lose. The fan’s never gave up and thank you Prospect Park for giving the fans what we want.
Monday 4/29!!!!

While I’m surprised at NBC and CBS for refusing the ads, I’m not at ABC. I wonder if they’re unpleasantly surprised that AMC and OLTL are a reality once more, and are trying to cover their rears. Or maybe they’re just as petulant as they seem.

So over the RH nonsense if OLTL depends solely on one character which I do not believe it does then they are done before they get started. PP you have other actors who have signed on for a year why use RH if he is not staying. My gosh the actor has moved on before and TSJ filled in quite nicely I am worn out with RH he is not the second coming.

It doesn’t matter to me that they won’t run the ads – I’ve already seen one for the rebooted shows on Canadian TV – for FX Canada where I’ll be watching come Monday.

BOOYAH !!

I think the networks are being petty. Since OLTL and AMC will be available to watch anytime – day or night, they are not direct competition. I am sure that people will continue watching whatever soaps they currently watch and hopefully will also watch AMC and OLTL at their convenience. I think it behooves all the networks which carry soaps to help the genre. ABC has proven itself to be petty and nasty as with killing off 2 or 3 of OLTL’s characters without permission from Prospect Park.
On another note- I hope PP ignores the previous deaths- they did not occur on OLTL and brings at least Hope back when it recasts Starr

Of course. You don’t see General Hospital ads during The Young and The Restless do you? Or Bold and the Beautiful ads airing during Days of our Lives. This makes total sense. No network airs ads for their direct competition. I find it amusing that this is surprising to some. It is standard practice for all of the three major networks.

I heard Prospect Park wants a jury trial. They don’t want me on their jury. I don’t think anyone should be forced to advertise for the competition. And call it what you may, OL and AMC are soaps.

I think its a little bit of both. I think the big statons nbc abc and cbs feel alls fair in love and war and competition but the soap genre should ALL support one another in this day and age. Unfortunately the powers at all four soaps have no say in what the network does. Lets face it abc wouldnt have this competition in the first place if they hadn’t canceled our soaps. I really hope PP is a HUGH success with these soaps.

ABC, NBC, and CBS already promotes these reboots when stars from both soaps have appeared on The Chew, The View and other network talk shows! No big deal! Why would you advertise the competion anyway…it would be like Burger King advertising a Mcdonalds Big Mac, im just saying!

While it doesn’t surprise me with regards to ABC, they are afraid that AMC and OLTL are going to be a HIT, which will make them look stupid for ever cancelling these shows in the first place to replace them with shows we are already polluted with. I understand NBC/CBS though, as they see AMC/OLTL via digital launch a direct threat because so much of today is done online.. I have seen the promos during Lifetime Television Network, and all I can say is GO PROSPECT PARK!! Real fans love you and thank you for bringing our shows back!!

i don’t think they’re competition at all! you can watch OLTL & AMC at ANYTIME OF DAY.

ABC executives are brain dead and they think we are to. Do they think we don’t know who is on what show? GMAB. NBC has nothing to worry about here. I do not watch them in the day time They cancelled my favorite shows GL and ATWTs, so they can put whatever on their network. I have made it a habit to never watch what they have put on in place of my soaps, never! I don’t care.. Sounds like a bunch of petty children, can’t be boss give me my ball, I am going home. Yuck. No wonder the networks are having so much trouble they are acting like children! Acting children are more grown up. Hope they don’t think that by doing this people won’t watch the online soaps,fergetaboutit..Lots of people are looking forward to them. I may even watch AMC I am looking forward to Jesse and Angie..The rest not so much.

Assuming the reasons listed in the THR article are true, some of PP’s excuses make little sense to me. They are okay with having ads run on CW, which as far as I know only has nighttime programming. (My CW affiliate runs Family Feud and talk shows during the daytime.) Yet one of the reasons for turning down Fox is becuse Fox only has nighttime programming. Huh?

Also mentioned is that PP’s ads on CW are running during the nighttime soap 90210, and that Fox has NO history with soaps. Um, I guess they aren’t aware that the original 90210 was a Fox show. So was the popular Melrose Place. And “24” may not be a soap but certainly counts as serialized fiction that did well for years.

Also, while Fox may not have a nighttime soap at the moment, they seem to be getting fairly big audiences in key demographics for American Idol and other contests and reality shows. I would think if Fox is agreeable to your advertising, you jump at the chance to try to attract that new, young audience you claim to want.

I would think most people who still watch one or more of the remaining daytime soaps already have at least some awareness about these online returns, so trying to put ads on during the extisting shows seems like a waste of money.

With such a midset, I can see why it took PP an extra year to even get this far. (Though I think the REAL unspoken reason for turning down Fox’s offer is that CW’s ad rates are likely more within PP’s budget than ad rates for the more popular Fox shows.)

As for ABC, it makes perfect sense that while GH begins its task of getting the audience accustomed to Roger Howarth returning as someone who isn’t Todd that the network doesn’t need to be advertising reminders that you can still see the character you know…just not on this show on this network. The whole ABC/PP situation should have been handled better on both sides, but this is the way things are now, so I can understand why ABC wouldn’t allow the Todd-focused ad (though I’d like to see it).

Me? I just want to see both GH and OLTL succeed in some format for many years to come, assuming the fictional drama can somehow surpass all the fascinating and insane real-life behind the scenes drama leading up to OLTL’s comeback.

I don’t see this as direct competition since OLTL and AMC are no longer ‘daytime’ soaps, nor are even in an actual time slot. Perhaps the networks master plan to eliminate the genre is being thwarted potential success online. I doubt any of the networks want to face the same outcry that ABC experienced over the last 2 years. I truly believe that success online will determine the future of the genre, and it will not take too long to see. Therefore, everyone who ever wanted these shows back better be watching!

Did Prospect Park really think that their competition would want to air ads?

Now they will claim sabotage again

Here is my question would Prospect air ads for GH, Days or Y&R? I bet not.

I think its ridiculous that PP is upset about this

ABC will make million’s off both soaps once they air.. I’m sure they want them to air.
PP would not accept the night/prime-time ad offer because they are very expensive, more so than day time.
ABC is confident, no fear of PP and very secure and PP likes to push the envelope.

I would never allow any competition to have an ad on my station, either. It’s bad for business.
Too many are emotional and make it personal and business people who run billion dollar companies do not.

(((if I had gas station and my gas was 3.50 a gallon I would not put a sign in my window telling my customers that the gas station across street has gas for 3.40 gallon))) DUH ..

I suppose all of them don’t want to support the competition. All have already lost audience to cable. I only watch network TV during the day. Not the alphabet network of course. In the evening, it’s either an old movie on cable or videos the internet. All network programming is pretty worthless from my stand point.

The networks are smartly ignoring the start up on line shows. I know many fans are jubilant but I still say the reboots face huge challenges and access is their biggest problem. They are not in TV and therefore not in competition with network shows. Several,years ago I read an extensive analysis of soap viewer demographics and if the report is still applicable in 2013 the age and relative lack of affluence of a typical soap viewer does not lend itself to on line soaps. i cannot picture great aunt edith sitting at a computer desk to watch anything. Heck she never heard of Hulu. I think prospect park is buying cheap publicity with their lawsuit.

I can see both sides of this argument and of course no one expects one business to be promoting the competition’s efforts over its own interests. But that’s not what this is. I think the networks are being short sighted and more than a little defensive here much like record companies fighting against online music delivery.

Network TV has long been advertising supported and they routinely advertise many products that can be seen as direct completion to themselves. Movies are the most glaring example. Both are viable entertainment choices. What they’re not is the either/or choice that some of the comparisons above have tried to make them out to be. This isn’t a situation where you’ve decided to have carryout tonight and have to choose one burger, one pizza or whatever over all the other offerings. There’s room for multiple choices here which I think is scaring the hell out of the networks right now.

Frankly, I think there’s also more than a little embarrassment on the part of network execs, daytimers in particular, to learn too late that the castoff soaps they were so sure no one wanted anymore are still very much wanted indeed and far more so than yet another “lifestyle” or reality show being shoved down one’s throat in an increasingly over-saturated market. I also don’t think they much like having what used to be a mostly captive and passive “loyal” audience telling THEM what we want to see rather than the other way around. They obviously don’t have a lot of confidence in their own “brands” if they’re that threatened by a new player with a totally different delivery system entering the game.

I have seen Advertisement On LMN plugging OLTL & AMC for 4/29. Wow that is this coming Mon.! HELLO!!!!! WELCOME BACK!!!! The heck with ABC! Yhey are mad & jealous our beloved soaps are back! And ABC and their stupid talk/ino/talk & lets not forget those pathetic cooking shows!

I’m just so done with caring about the feuds that ABC & PP are having….I just can’t wait until Monday to watch my shows.

IN 38 HOURS OUR SOAPS ARE RETURNED TO US!!!!!!

I’m not surprised by this at all. Why should these shows get promoted when the networks hardly ever, if ever, promote the shows they already have on daytime. Plus, if this venture succeeds (and I hope and trust they will) it will open the flood gates for more competition for the already-floundering-networks.

I just saw a promo for both shows on Nick @nite

In my opinion this is absolutely crazy. Two years ago the daytime industry including Oprah Winfrey was calling soaps a dying breed, here we are about to make history with the online debut of AMC and OLTL. Having said that, I believe at the time ABC gave PP licensing rights to the shows, it was a strategic move to calm upset fans. ABC didn’t plan the 2 shows ever seeing the light of day. ABC is nervous the reboot is going to be an overwhelming success which will really make them look bad. I wish everyone would embrace and support what is about to happen.

How are those talk and cooking shows working out tor you ABC?
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha hah

Didn’t think so. Why don’t you cut your nose off to spite your face next. Ignorant Dummies!!!