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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/27/81-7/31/81 & 8/3/81-8/7/81:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/10/81-8/14/81 & 8/17/81-8/21/81:

7 hours ago, fivethej said:

Steve Blackwood (Bart) isn't a fan of Farah Fath.

 

I had the exact opposite thing when I met Dee randomly. She had just finished a long signing of her Marlena doll in NYC. I was arriving for a later signing of a group of actors, so I hadn't expected to see her. She came out a side door of 30 Rock as I was arriving for the other signing. As soon as I saw her, I ran over and asked if she would sign my "Days" book (which I had with me for the other signing). The NBC security with her was trying to push her into the waiting car, but she brushed them off and said she would gladly sign my book. Then a mother and young son walked by and asked for a photo with her, and she gladly obliged, all the while as the security was annoyed that she wouldn't get in the car. So, my one fan experience was very nice with Dee. So, I can say for certainty, that for myself, that woman and her son, she did not snap at anyone of us for speaking to her. And this wasn't even at a fan event, this was just on the street where she could have just simply walked into her car as the security was telling her to do so. 

2 hours ago, GLATWT88 said:

In Feb. during its transition to one hour episodes, it was head to head with AMC from 1-2pm. In June, it shifted to an earlier start time of 12:30, putting it up against the low-rating Doctors at the time and Ryan's Hope which was performing reasonably but not at the height of the rest of the ABC lineup. This half hour lead might have been an advantage to YR.

I would be curious to see what the half hour ratings for YR would be at this time. 

2 hours ago, JoeCool said:

I think Y and R competed against All My Children in June 1981.

@kalbir What were the CBS schedules in June 1981 after June 8?

Not Kalbir, but I already had this file open for the above question, so CBS schedule for June 1981 is thIs:

Jeffersons 10-1030

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/29/81-7/3/81 & 7/6/81-7/10/81:

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2 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Wow, thanks for typing that all out. It's crazy how detailed that is to the minute.

That is Nielsens one purpose! To accurately rate everything on TV. And to do that, they need an accurate record of the exact times everything aired. 

7 hours ago, tybuki said:

Hey @JAS0N47, can you pull up the ratings for the week of July 6, 1987? Curious on the ratings of Bargain Hunters and other games being affected by the Iran-Contra hearings. Thanks.

In any previous Game Show lists, I never listed the preemption data, but I did for this one:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/8/81-6/12/81 & 6/15/81-6/19/81:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 6/22/81-6/26/81:

2 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

One thing I wonder about is when the Nielsen report says X number of minutes aired, how does that work with time zones. @JAS0N47 has told us that sometimes the shows reserved a few minutes for political ads, and intentionally produced a shorter show, so that makes sense. But for a news interruption like this, I wonder if sometimes it's possible the shows did air in full in some time zones? 

 

According to this article the shooting happened at 5:19 PM in St. Peter's Square https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-05/may-13th-1981-remembering-that-fateful-day.html which is 11:19 AM US Eastern time and 8:19 AM Pacific time. So that happened early enough that I guess it broke into Y&R and then the rest of the shows on CBS got preempted cause they stayed on the story all day. Same for ABC breaking into AMC and preempting the rest. So then the 20 minutes that aired of Y&R were East coast and the West Coast, I presume, had no show?

 

But then how come NBC aired partial episodes of all their shows? Did they dip in and out of coverage all day?

 

That information probably isn't available in Jason's report, so I'm just musing really. I guess it comes from the desire that since Sony isn't going to ever open up their vaults, that somewhere, the show aired in full and some fan recorded it.

 

I don't include all that extra info, but EVERYTHING is all in the reports! One option is that the later time zones possibly aired local/syndicated programming in place of the soaps. It looks like, for instance, that CBS aired special reports only during the commercial breaks of Search for Tomorrow from 12:30-1PM Eastern.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/11/81-5/15/81 & 5/18/81-5/22/81:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/25/81-5/29/81 & 6/1/81-6/5/81:

3 minutes ago, Errol said:

This is why I'm not too fond of the mainstream press sometimes. Don't do any real research, make mistakes (Albert wasn't the executive producer, and Sony isn't the producer of DAYS), and write short enough articles that include just enough bits and pieces that help pass as if they are covering a story...not to mention only covering it when it's all over.

They were once the gold standard of the industry, since they started over 100 years ago, covering every aspect of show business. I remember in doing research of old issues, they would even have a lot of reports about Days actors joining the show in the 60s and 70s. Guest actors would even take out full or half-page ads to announce they were going to guest on Days. But, like most newspapers/magazines, the quality has gone quite down in recent years.

4 minutes ago, janea4old said:

*WGA-West* listed any/all of their writers who have gone fi-core - if you look closely at their page it says "WGAW" at the top of the ficore list on the current website.
*WGA-East* supposedly doesn't normally reveal their writers who go fi-core. According to what Variety said in 2008, the only reason we know who from East went fi-core in 2007-2008 is that they were outed in a letter. 
That is my understanding - I detailed what I mean about that at this post on the strike thread:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/62620-2023-writers-actors-strike-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1865104

But I don't want to derail this "Alarr finally fired" discussion! Celebrating that he's gone!

I always thought that was the full list. I think Jeanne Ford lives in Maryland, so I always thought she would be WGAE, like the Cullitons. Yet Ford is listed on the fi-core list of the WGAW list. That's why my assumption has always been it's the full list of the entire WGA fi-core. Unless I am totally wrong, I just thought WGAE were for writers who lived in the eastern half of the US, and WGAW was for writers who lived in the western half of the US.

9 minutes ago, Errol said:

While Sonia has produced her own original series, "Tainted Dreams," she's mostly been a director. It's possible Ken Corday wanted to save money by giving Janet one title and not both. Allegedly, Alarr was making about $2 million a year in his dual role. I'm sure Janet is a LOT cheaper.

Do you think they will be stuck continuing paying him money per his contract? 

Just now, lucaslesann23 said:

I have to remember that days is Like 8 months ahead, wonder when Janet's material would air?

It's a fresh start to the new year (2024). The show just happens to also be wrapping up Ron's material as head writer, so around the same time as Janet takes over on Monday, they will also be starting the scab scripts, which should start airing just before or after Christmas Day.

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8 minutes ago, Errol said:

Correct. But we don't know how quick the list is updated, plus GH writers aren't listed and we know they have fi-core writers or "scabs"

I figured they updated the list as quickly as possible, to make sure all WGA writers know who is going to scab. I assume the two "Days" writers who are already fi-core will still be writing during the strike, but the show won't list any names. I expect the script writers to start disappearing from the credits around mid-late November, and then the breakdown writers will start disappearing in early-mid December. And then Ron & Ryan's names will be removed around Christmas Day.

23 minutes ago, Errol said:

Do we know if she's on strike? There's no guarantee that she's automatically out of a job, too, since technically she didn't do anything wrong, although I can't imagine her staying knowing that her husband was accused of the things he was accused of, regardless of whether the people speaking out were anonymous or not.

WGA has listed any writers who went fi-core. She was not one of them. I wasn't suggesting she was out of a job. They couldn't fire her for his actions, and can't fire her during the WGA strike. I just meant that currently, they are down to 0 "Days" paychecks. So, for the 20 years of abuse he put the cast and crew through, it's a nice thought to end the week.

And with his "Days" writer wife on strike, they now go from two paychecks to none.

Thanks, it's been such a sad week posting about Days like this. So, I am so glad it is all over. It was such a pleasure typing up the Janet press release just now. I hadn't announced it, but if you hadn't noticed, I had stopped doing any publicity posts about Days since the cast petition was announced. I would have continued my suspension of any Days publicity (weekly guest stars, episode stats, casting news, etc...) until Alarr was fired.

JANET SPELLMAN-DRUCKER NAMED CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF "DAYS OF OUR LIVES"...

Janet Spellman-Drucker, whose first job at "Days of Our Lives" in March 1984 was to answer the phone, is now the new Co-Executive Producer! Spellman-Drucker has steadily risen in the ranks at "Days" over the last 39 years. She first joined "Days" in March 1984 as a production associate. The next year, in 1985, she started splitting her roles, as both a Production Associate and Associate Director. She was promoted to an Assistant to the Producers in August 1988. Spellman-Drucker was named an Associate Producer in December 1989. She was promoted to Coordinating Producer in October 1993. She then became the show's Senior Coordinating Producer from November 1997 until August 2015, when she was named Producer. Spellman-Drucker was again promoted, this time to Senior Producer, in September 2020, the role she held until being named Co-Executive Producer tonight. She directed her first episode of "Days" on June 27, 2022, and has since directed a total of 15 episodes, her most recent directed-episode airing on July 24 Spellman-Drucker was born September 3, 1960. She becomes just the fourth woman in the history of "Days of Our Lives" to be an Executive Producer, joining Betty Corday (1966-1987), Shelley Curtis (1989) and Lisa De Cazotte (2012-2015). In a 2015 interview, she stated that "Days became such a wonderful place, it became my family...I've grown up here." Congratulations, Janet!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 4/20/81-4/24/81:

Note: With 1978 and 1979 now fully posted, I will start posting 2 charts from the 1980's on most days!

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