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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 444179" data-attributes="member: 57984">Yes, by the mid-'80s, they stopped rerunning the nighttime soaps in the summer because the ratings just cratered. Audiences would rewatch an episode of a crime show or sitcom they'd seen 6 months earlier, but were reluctant to sit through a multi-episode story arc they'd just seen 6 months earlier.But as Paulsen told this approximate website in 2008, networks pay to show an episode twice, so even when the soaps were still doing well, they were probably bleeding money for those networks. And once the ratings for the genre drooped, they were in even more trouble... ABC slashed DYNASTY (a show they knew mostly sucked and had wanted to get rid of for years) in 1989, while CBS was still trying prop up DALLAS even after it dropped out of The Top 60.Go figure.</blockquote>