Although the series still did well in the ratings ( despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera Dark Shadows ), it was canceled in 1969 along with other games in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by Letters to Laugh-In which, although a spin-off of the popular prime time series Laugh-In, ended in just three months on December 26.

It surpassed records as the most popular daytime program ever with a record 11 million daily viewers, one that held until the " Luke and Laura " supercouple storyline gripped viewers on ABC's General Hospital some years later.

Match Game has the distinction of being ABC's last daytime game show to date.

Perhaps one of ABC's first truly popular daytime shows ( along with the game show Let's Make a Deal ), Dark Shadows found its demographic niche in teenagers coming home from school in time to watch the show at 4 p. m. Eastern / 3 p. m. Central, where it aired for almost all of its network run, the exception being a 15-month stretch between April 1967 and July 1968, when it aired a half hour earlier.

Whatever the cultural context or audience composition of Dark Shadows, it became one of ABC's first daytime shows to actually win its timeslot, leading to the demise of NBC's original Match Game and Art Linkletter's long-running House Party on CBS, both in 1969.

* July 7 – Ryan's Hope on ABC's daytime lineup ( 1975 – 89 )

* December 20 – 2 new game shows premiere on ABC's daytime schedule: the original Supermarket Sweep ( 1965 – 1967 ) and The Dating Game ( 1965 – 1973 ).

The show first went into reruns on ABC's daily daytime schedule from September 7, 1987 to January 15, 1988, ( replacing the game show Bargain Hunters ).

This is an extraordinary feat for daytime shows of its day, especially since some of its victims in the ratings were long-running favorites such as CBS ' House Party with Art Linkletter and ABC's Dating Game.

He is the executive producer of ABC's daytime program The Chew, but is probably better known for his 1990s TV talk show program, The Gordon Elliott Show.

Dano eventually appeared as Rae on all four of ABC's soaps airing at the time -- Port Charles, All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital -- in an attempt to cross-promote these shows to ABC's entire base of daytime drama viewers.

On April 23, 2009, General Hospital became ABC's first regular daytime drama to be taped and broadcast in high definition, though the 2008 season of its primetime spinoff General Hospital: Night Shift was in high definition.

He stayed until 1981 when the show revamped to bring up its poor ratings against the number one daytime program, ABC's General Hospital.

Somerset is noteworthy in daytime scheduling history as one of three soaps to premiere on the same day, along with ABC's The Best of Everything and A World Apart.

The network was formerly simulcast on ESPN during coverage of major breaking sports news before the expansion of SportsCenter in daytime on ESPN in 2008, and a highlights rundown with the network's overnight anchor is one of the segments on ABC's early morning newscast, America This Morning.

It lost ABC in 1965 ( though it cleared some ABC daytime programming until 1971 as a secondary affiliate ) when then-independent WONE-TV ( now WKEF ) picked up ABC's prime time programming.

ABC's Cincinnati affiliate, WKRC-TV, and its Columbus affiliate, WTVN-TV ( now WSYX ), were both preempting certain of the network's daytime programs, late night shows, and some of its Saturday morning cartoons.

Having replaced the game show You Don't Say !, Bright Promise would give way to another serial, Return to Peyton Place, on the NBC daytime schedule ; the serial had been soundly defeated in the Nielsen ratings by CBS ' The Edge of Night and ABC's One Life to Live.

She is the longest-running performer on ABC's longest-running daytime serial, General Hospital, playing Audrey Hardy, R. N.

In 1997, she appeared on ABC's special two-hour primetime preview of new daytime series Port Charles, a spin-off of the long-running Emmy winning hit General Hospital.

A decade after it went off the air, a new version premiered on ABC's daytime schedule in 1985 entitled New Love, American Style but was canceled after a few months due to low ratings against The Price Is Right on CBS.

Zamprogna appears in ABC's daytime soap-opera General Hospital as Dante Falconeri.

From 1966 to 1971, David portrayed various characters on ABC's daytime phenomenon Dark Shadows.

Upon the show's American debut in 1999, it was an instant hit and became a regular part of ABC's prime time lineup until 2002.

The series ran as part of ABC's TGIF Friday comedy lineup for its first four seasons before moving to Tuesday nights, where it aired for the remainder of its run.

Short clips of Cartman introducing the starting lineup for the University of Colorado football team were featured during ABC's coverage of the 2007 match-up between the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska.

Prior to that, and particularly in the early 1990s, it was not uncommon for affiliates to preempt part or all of ABC's cartoon lineup with local programming.

During the early 1970s, Schoolhouse Rock was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired on ABC's children's lineup ; others included Time for Timer and The Bod Squad.

Eddie Elias founded the Professional Bowlers Association in 1958, and its Pro Bowlers Tour became a permanent part of ABC's sports lineup by the early 1960s.

The popular sitcom was part of ABC's TGIF from 1989 until 1997, before it became part of the CBS Block Party lineup from 1997 until 1998.

They put up the " CBS Block Party " against ABC's TGIF lineup, where the two series previously originated.

Disney aired their series as part of ABC's Saturday Morning lineup in 1996 ( following Disney's purchasing of the network ), and the show became part of Disney's One Saturday Morning block in 1997.

It was part of ABC's popular Saturday night lineup that included Fantasy Island until that show ended in 1984.

By the mid-to-late 1980s the show could always be seen Saturday mornings at 5am, followed by off-network reruns and later, in the 1990s, by syndicated children's programming that lead up to ABC's Saturday Morning lineup ( most notably Cappelli & Company ).

During the latter half of the show's run, and for at most until a year after it was canceled, short 30-second segments from America's Funniest People ran in commercial breaks during ABC's Saturday morning lineup.

entered ABC's fall lineup in 1986.

Like Three's Company, The Ropers was introduced as late season replacement series in the spring of 1979 premiering the same night as Three's Company on ABC's successful Tuesday night lineup, airing at 10pm.

The station formerly pre-empted the first hour ( 7-8pm Central ) of the ABC lineup on Tuesday evenings during the football season to carry the local program Tuesday Night Touchback, which was formerly known as Monday Night Countdown before it was moved in 2007 because of Dancing with the Stars and the departure from ABC of Monday Night Football ( for most of the 2000s ( decade ), the slot has been among the lowest-rated on ABC's primetime schedule, as was the case with the pre-MNF timeslot ).

The show found its niche there as the anchor for ABC's original TGIF Friday-night lineup, though it aired on Saturdays for a short time in 1992.

The experiment of adding a child to the cast was partially influenced by the network as well, since ABC's TGIF lineup was wishing to incorporate the child-and-preteen demographic into its audience.

The two renewed their working partnership full-time in 1976, launching Break the Bank, hosted by Tom Kennedy, on ABC's daytime lineup.

Less than two weeks later, the show came to ABC's One Saturday Morning lineup, airing original episodes that could only be seen on the network.

" Beginning in 2001, ABC changed the tagline to " ABC Sports-Championship Television ," in regards to ABC's sports lineup ( which included the BCS championship, the MLS Cup final, the Stanley Cup Finals, rights to Super Bowl coverage, and would later include the NBA Finals ).

The show garnered high ratings, benefiting from its placement in ABC's powerhouse Tuesday night lineup following hits like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Three's Company.

Billy premiered as the sitcom that completed ABC's TGIF lineup, Fridays at 9: 30 / 8: 30c.

The block was similar to, and was intended as direct competition to, ABC's TGIF lineup and aired on Friday nights from 8pm-10pm ET.