While Fox's "American Idol" has been staying atop the prime-time heap for some time, it has a long way to go in terms of ratings longevity before it can match up to CBS' "The Young & the Restless."
That soap just won its 1,000th consecutive week in the daytime ratings. In other words, the show has won every single week since 1988 -- when it was already 16 years old.
"Reaching
the milestones of 1,000 weeks at No. 1 and 35 years on the air simultaneously is unheard of in this industry, it is a testament to the work of an extraordinary team of storytellers both in front of
and behind the cameras," says Barbara Bloom, senior vice president of daytime programs at CBS.
The streak is even more impressive when ratings erosion in the genre is taken into
account. In the week ending Feb. 29, "Young" averaged 5.8 million viewers, more than some current prime-time shows.
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