One Life to Live
Since the agreement made between ABC and Prospect Park was not limited to internet television and did allowed "One Life to Live" to be broadcast on traditional television, there was an announcement on August 3, 2011 about a possibility of "One Life to Live" airing on a cable channel. On October 5, 2011, the project to bring "One Life to Live" to cable was reiterated in a "New York Times" article, where it was revealed that Prospect Park planned to first air episodes on The Online Network, then make them available on television on demand and, then weeks later, on cable television.
How to Survive a Marriage
The show did not profit from the large lead-in that the high-rated "Another World" provided, mostly due to its many attempts to be socially relevant, which usually took the place of traditional storytelling to which American soap viewers at the time were acclimated. "How to Survive a Marriage" ran a distant third in the 3:30 PM timeslot, behind "Match Game" on CBS (daytime TV's highest-rated program) and "One Life to Live" on ABC; a move to 1:30 PM on January 6, 1975 (to enable "AW" to expand to an hour) only brought worse ratings. Despite NBC's high hopes, "Survive" would survive for only sixteen months, ending on a Thursday (the 1:30pm–3:00pm block on NBC was pre-empted the following day for a 90-minute special "First Ladies Diaries: Rachel Jackson"). The Monday after, "Days of Our Lives" expanded to an hour and assumed the vacant half-hour left in NBC's daytime schedule. The program thus holds a rather dubious distinction as the victim of not only the first expansion of a soap opera to a full hour, but the first "two" (CBS did not expand any of its shows until December, and ABC did not until 1976).