In a YouTube video posted Thursday night, Oprah said that she understood the sadness devotees of “All My Children” and “One Life To Live” felt when ABC canceled them last week. The decision has prompted an outpouring of anger and even an advertiser boycott.

But Oprah said that she wanted to tell fans why she was refusing to give the canceled shows a home on her OWN network. The “bone marrow truth,” she said, was that “there just are not enough people who are at home in the daytime to watch them.” She assured viewers that “if there was a dime left to be made from them on broadcast television it would still be happening.”