JAS0N47

Posting here since all the preemptions from 1979 to 1989 are posted here. 

Here is the preemptions list for 1978 (as complete as can be, with 2 full weeks, and 5 "fast weekly" weeks not available):

1978 PREEMPTIONS LIST:

Note # 1: Partial preemptions unavailable for the weeks of 4/10/78 & 4/17/78.
Note # 2: Full & partial preemptions unavailable for the "fast weekly" weeks: 3/20/78, 4/24/78, 6/26/78, 8/28/78, 12/25/78. TV listings were checked to confirm any possible regularly scheduled specials preempting the soaps and those are listed in the lists below, but any full preemptions for breaking news will be unknown for these weeks.

DAYS FULL:
1/2/78 Tournament of Roses Parade (1130AM-2PM) & For Richer, For Poorer (2-230PM)
11/23/78 NFL Football Game (1230-330PM)

DAYS PARTIAL:
8/9/78 1:51PM (39 minutes)
9/5/78 130-133 & 145-230PM (48 minutes)
10/16/78 (12 minutes)

AMC FULL:
8/9/78 Pope Paul VI Report
11/24/78 NCAA Football

AMC PARTIAL:
9/5/78 1-127 & 141-2PM (46 minutes)
10/16/78 1-119 & 124-143PM (37 minutes)
11/9/78 Special airing: 1:32-2:30PM (58 minutes)

AW FULL:
1/16/78 Hubert Humphrey Funeral
11/23/78 Thursday- NFL Football Game
**12/25/78 (Local Fill: 3-330PM) & Fiesta Bowl (330-end) (per newspaper)

AW PARTIAL:
1/12/78 3:02PM (58 minutes)
1/30/78 3:05PM (55 minutes)
2/17/78    (30 minutes)
3/9/78 3:38PM (22 minutes)
**4/25/78 (Newspaper listing has Carter Press Conference listed at 3PM)
6/14/78 3:35PM (25 minutes)

ATWT FULL:
12/26/77 NFL Playoff Game 1
1/2/78 Tournament of Roses Parade
4/10/78-4/14/78 or 4/17/78-4/21/78  1 full preemption during these two weeks
9/4/78 US Open Tennis
11/23/78 Family Sports Special
**12/25/78 Peach Bowl (per newspaper)

ATWT PARTIAL
8/9/78 1:53PM (37 minutes)
9/5/78 1:42PM (48 minutes)
10/16/78 (12 minutes)
11/9/78 1:31PM (59 minutes)

DOC FULL:
1/12/78 Carter Press Conference
1/30/78 Carter News Conference
11/23/78 NFL Football Game

DOC PARTIAL:
1/16/78 (29 minutes)
10/16/78 2:37PM (23 minutes)

EDGE FULL:
1/2/78 Sugar Bowl
1/16/78 Hubert Humphrey Funeral
1/30/78 Carter News Conference
2/17/78    General Hospital
3/9/78 General Hospital
6/7/78 Daytime Emmy Awards
6/14/78 General Hospital
**6/26/78 (Newspaper listing has Carter Press Conference listed at 4PM, this could be a full preemption)
8/17/78 Carter Press Conference
9/28/78 Carter Press Conference
10/4/78 ALCS Game 2
10/5/78 NLCS Game 2
10/6/78 ALCS Game 3
10/10/78 Carter Press Conference
11/9/78 General Hospital
11/24/78 NCAA Football
11/30/78 Carter Press Conference

EDGE PARTIAL:
9/5/78 405PM (25 minutes)
10/2/78    Special airing: 2-230PM

FOR RICHER FULL:
1/10/78 Local Fill (network preemption)
2/7/78 Local Fill (network preemption)
2/13/78 Local Fill (network preemption)
3/7/78 Local Fill (network preemption)
4/4/78 Local Fill (network preemption
8/9/78 Pope Paul VI Report
8/17/78 Local Fill (network preemption)

FOR RICHER PARTIAL:
1/2/78 Special airing: 2-230PM
1/16/78 (rated as breakout)
9/28/78 (rated as breakout)

GH FULL:
1/2/78 Sugar Bowl
1/16/78 Hubert Humphrey Funeral
6/7/78 Daytime Emmy Awards
10/2/78 AL Tiebreaker Playoff
11/24/78 NCAA Football

GH PARTIAL:
1/30/78 Special airing: 330PM
2/17/78    Special airing: (3-330 & 403-430) (57 minutes)
3/9/78 Special airing: 3:39PM (51 minutes)
**4/25/78 (Newspaper listing has Carter Press Conference listed at 3PM)
6/14/78 Special airing: 3:36PM (54 minutes)
9/5/78 (48 minutes)
11/9/78 Special airing: 3:30-4:30PM

GL FULL:
12/26/77 NFL Playoff Game 1
1/2/78 Cotton Bowl Game
1/16/78 All in the Family & CBS Special Report
9/4/78 US Open Tennis
11/23/78 Family Sports Special & NFL Football Pregame
**12/25/78 Peach Bowl (per newspaper)

GL PARTIAL:
1/12/78 Special airing: 3:03PM (57 minutes)
1/30/78 Special airing: 3:05PM (55 minutes)
3/9/78 Special airing: (230-3 & 339-4PM, 51 minutes)
**4/25/78 (Newspaper listing has Carter Press Conference listed at 3PM)
6/14/78 Special airing: 230-3 & 336-4PM (54 minutes)
10/16/78 2:36PM (54 minutes)

LOVE FULL:
1/2/78 Tournament of Roses Parade
10/4/78 Pope John Paul I Funeral
11/23/78 Thanksgiving Day Parade

LOVE PARTIAL:
12/30/77 Special airing: 11AM
12/12/78 11:32AM (22 minutes)

OLTL FULL:
1/2/78 Sugar Bowl
10/2/78 Edge of Night & AL Tiebreaker Playoff 
10/5/78 NLCS Game 2
11/24/78 NCAA Football

OLTL PARTIAL:
1/12/78 3:02PM (13 minutes)
1/30/78 Special airing: 2-230 & 305-330 (55 minutes)
10/16/78 2:39PM (21 minutes)
11/9/78 Special airing: 2:30-3:30PM
9/4/78 (rated as breakout)

RYAN FULL:
10/4/78 Pope John Paul I Funeral

RYAN PARTIAL:
3/6/78 12:40PM (20 minutes)
8/9/78 (25 minutes)
9/4/78 (rated as breakout)

SEARCH FULL:
1/2/78 Tournament of Roses Parade
3/2/78 Carter Press Conference/analysis
10/4/78 Pope John Paul I Funeral
11/23/78 Famous Classic Tales

SEARCH PARTIAL:
3/6/78 12:39PM (21 minutes)

YR FULL:
1/2/78 Tournament of Roses Parade
3/2/78 Carter Press Conference
10/4/78 Pope John Paul I Funeral
11/23/78 Famous Classic Tales

YR PARTIAL:
12/30/77 12:06PM (24 minutes)
9/4/78 (rated as breakout)

5 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Jason, that's fantastic & completely satisfies my curiosity. An amazing ratings ride from 23.1/42 with a low of 8.2/13, just a total mess. 

And the future Days head writer, Anne Howard Bailey, wrote Episode # 11, the last episode to air. The final two episodes were pulled and never aired.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/21/89-8/25/89 & 8/28/89-9/1/89:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/4/89-9/8/89 & 9/11/89-9/15/89:

9 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

@JAS0N47   Do you have access to ratings that would cover this show? I'm just curious about its ratings for 11 nights. There is no deadline on my curiosity. 

BEACON HILL ran for only 11 episodes from Monday night, Aug. 25, 1975 to Nov. 4, 1975 on CBS primetime. The premiere episode cost $900,000 to mount. The producer was Jacqueline Babbin, known for AMC. The setting was Boston right after WWI. It was much touted & had great expectations. It opened with a whopping 43 share but it did not at all hold onto audience. Patterned probably too closely to Brit soap Upstairs, Downstairs. 

JUNE 1991 PREEMPTIONS:

None at all!   That leaves just July & August 1991 to finish up and then we will have the complete list of preemptions from 1979-1999!

As we start heading into the stuff already posted from the Soap Opera Weekly scans for Fall 1989-Spring 1992, I hope you all will continue to enjoy the daily posts of the ratings, which will soon move over to the 90's Ratings thread. Also, I did check the first couple, but I don't feel like comparing them all, so once I start posting the stuff from Soap Opera Weekly, if some people here would please compare them to the Weekly ratings and let me know of any discrepancies. It might just mean I made a typing mistake, or it could be that sometimes they might differ from what Weekly has listed. 

If you are doing the comparisons, please check the Soap Opera Weekly ratings here: http://www.jason47.com/days/nielsens1990.html   And, thanks in advance to anyone who helps out with confirming that both sets of numbers match up!

4 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Oh, god, I'm sorry. I didn't even know such a thing was possible. 

No, I wasn't saying it was your fault. I just said that's what happened. I was making them in posts of 3 years each, and they seemed to just keep being added to the same post. It wasn't my intention to keep them all in the same post. 

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

So, your list only goes to the end of 1989?

 

It's all there from 1975-2023. I think someone posted as I was posting the lists, so there might be a post or two separating the full list.

I just checked. It was you who did that post which separated the full list!

12 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

And I was wrong.....there is still one more week from 1989 that has never been seen.

@JAS0N47

Do you have the missing weeks for October and November?

Yes, and January 8, 1990 which Soap Weekly did not have.

The only weeks we are missing since 1979 are 8/24/81, 10/19/87 and 12/14/87. The two weeks from 1987 were verified both from the VR post in 2019 and someone just said they had the Daytime TV scans of those weeks as well, but I have yet to receive those.

From the Soap Opera Weekly era from 1989-1991, there are 4 weeks still pending to get the additional data (affiliates, clearance and preemptions). And two weeks (5/20/91 and 5/27/91) are not yet available, but the main data is available from Soap Opera Weekly.

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

@JAS0N47   Just to be clear, that's most out of DAYS covers, not out of all SOD covers, correct? 

Yes. I also posted the full list of everyone on the covers earlier in this thread, so if anyone wants to figure out who the most-appearing person on the cover is out of all of the soaps, the data is there to figure it out!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/24/89-7/28/89 & 7/31/89-8/4/89:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/7/89-8/11/89 & 8/14/89-8/18/89:

8 minutes ago, j swift said:

@JAS0N47 Besides John and Marlena, were any other couples married on the anniversary?  And were any characters born on the anniversary?

I just checked the records, and we've had one birth and two weddings on the actual November 8 episodes:

Birth # 3. 11/8/68 (Episode # 758): Michael Horton.

Wedding # 113. 11/8/11 (Episode # 11711): Victor/Maggie. 
Wedding # 129. 11/8/18 (Episode # 13465): John/Marlena.

The only other birth or wedding to take place between November 6 and November 10 is

Wedding # 99. 11/9/07 (Episode # 10695): EJ/Sami. 

HAPPY 58TH ANNIVERSARY, "DAYS OF OUR LIVES"...AS ALICE ONCE SAID, "ANYONE WHO KEEPS TOM HORTON IN THEIR HEART IS A HORTON"...MAC & FRANCES, YOU WILL ALWAYS REMAIN IN THE HEARTS OF ALL "DAYS" FANS

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Just curious, have any of you ever looked at this website to determine how accurate they are? 

http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/

Never heard of that site, so I have not. 

58 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

@JAS0N47   Hey, Jason, when was Drake last onscreen?

October 18.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/26/89-6/30/89 & 7/3/89-7/7/89:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/10/89-7/14/89 & 7/17/89-7/21/89:

Update on "Days" airing 2/27/91...

This episode did air, at least in parts of the country, but is not listed at all in Nielsen. I checked my original records from 1991, and the 2/28/91 scene log has a note on the top, the copy from an announcer voiceover stating a few of the storylines that aired on the 2/27/91 episode. Also, a "Days" fan actually posted the 2/27/91 episode summary on that date in the old rec.arts  soap message board.  (I never actually got to see this episode in 1991, not until many years later once I started filling in the missing episodes for my collection).

This looks to be the only error I have found in Nielsen in regards to the "Days" telecasts from 1978-1999. "Days" should be listed as a breakout on 2/27/91 (listing the small amount of affiliates that got it that day), but is not. The Nielsen books many times have paper inserts with updates from what is printed in the book, saying that the information arrived too late from the network to be included in the printed book. So, that is my best guess as to why this is missing from Nielsen. If there is a paper insert for this "Days" episode, I have not seen it.

I have changed this episode from the "full preemption" to "partial preemption" list.

33 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

Everything from usenet, to the official YT page with the episodes definitely all add up accordingly. I suggested maybe they had to either skip 4/19/93 completely and not air it the next day because of messing with the continuity of Lauren/Sheila, or they aired two episodes 4/20/93...or maybe even for the East Coast viewers, on 4/21/93 they aired 3 episodes? the missing two from 4/19-4/20 and of course 4/21/93.