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UPDATE TO WEEK OF 10/19/87: I just received the two scans of ratings today from the fan who had them from soap magazines. The 12/14/87 ratings match exactly what VR posted in 2019. However, there is one difference in the Daytime TV ratings listed for 10/19/87. VR posted OLTL got a 7.4, but Daytime TV has OLTL at 7.5, so I am updating the OLTL rating to 7.5 for that week. As we discussed previously, VR's ratings may have been preliminary, which account for the slight differences, while the incoming information from Daytime TV would be a more final list of ratings. This also explains why the newspaper article that I found (which mentions a tie lower in the chart), does not mention that OLTL and YR are tied at 7.4, since OLTL was 7.5 and YR was 7.4. This new chart is posted in place of the old one:

I don't usually know any writing changes until they happen in the credits. I only knew the Cullitons were retiring because of your chat with them. So, with her name gone, I would assume she's gone. So they must have a new hire or two just before the strike started.

SEPTEMBER 1991-MAY 1992 PREEMPTION UPDATES: For the remaining books from 1991-1992, they will update the following information: Unknown titles of special reports; # of affiliates (instead of clearance percentage); and exact times for preemptions in the middle of an episode. Here are the updates for September 1991-May 1992 (which are being updated in the 1990-1999 preemption list as well): DAYS 9/12/91 1-127PM PBO (42 percent affs) updated to (91 affs) 9/23/91 1-116PM PBO (42 percent affs) updated to (90 affs) ATWT 12/4/91 202-230 PBO (83 percent affs) updated to (178 affs) OLTL 12/4/91 202-222 PBO (83 percent affs) updated to (202 affs) YR 9/12/91 102-127 PBO (47 percent affs) updated to (135 affs) 9/23/91 1230-1244 & 114-130PM (28 minutes); (2 minute preemption during episode) updated to 1230-1244 & 116-130PM (28 minutes) 9/23/91 1244-114 PBO (47 percent affs) updated to (135 affs) 10/4/91 1230-1247 PBO (76 percent affs) update to (110 affs)

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/18/89-9/22/89 & 9/25/89-9/29/89: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/2/89-10/6/89 & 10/9/89-10/13/89:

AUGUST 1991 PREEMPTIONS... With that, we now have the full list of preemptions from 1979-1999! AMC PARTIAL: 8/21/91 1-131 & 145-2PM (46 minutes) AW PARTIAL: 8/20/91 210-254PM (44 minutes) ATWT FULL: 8/20/91 Unrated CBS Special Report: Soviet Coup 6 (unknown timings) ATWT PARTIAL: 8/19/91 (45 minutes) BB PARTIAL: 8/20/91 (9 minutes) 8/21/91 1:47PM (13 minutes) DAYS PARTIAL: 8/21/91 1-134 & 150-2PM (44 minutes); 134-150PM PBO (55 affs) GH PARTIAL: 8/20/91 3:01PM (59 minutes) LOV FULL: 8/22/91 Unrated Gorbachev Press Conference (unknown timings) OLTL PARTIAL: 8/20/91 (44 minutes) SANTA PARTIAL: 8/19/91 3:11PM (49 minutes) YR FULL: 8/22/91 Unrated CBS Special Report: Soviet Coup 10 (unknown timings) YR PARTIAL: 8/19/91 1230-1245 & 1-130PM (45 minutes); 1245-1PM PBO (187 affs) 8/26/91 1230-1233 & 1-103PM (6 minutes); 1233-1 & 103-130 PBO (210 affs) 8/29/91 1230-1236 & 107-130PM (29 minutes); 1237-107 PBO (112 affs)

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)

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:

I only have back to 1978, but the Prime Time Network Serials book has this for Beacon Hill, so this will have to suffice for now. We'll be getting the 1975 Nielsen books eventually, so we can see if these verify:

JULY 1991 PREEMPTIONS: Tomorrow, the August 1991 preemptions will be confirmed, and then fans will have the full list of preemptions for all soaps from 1979-1999! AMC PARTIAL: 8/2/91 1:03PM (57 minutes) AW FULL: 7/4/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) 7/5/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) AW PARTIAL: 7/1/91 2:52PM (8 minutes) 7/17/91 (43 minutes) ATWT FULL: 7/1/91 Unrated Bush Press Conference (2-3PM) ATWT PARTIAL: 7/17/91 (43 minutes) DAYS FULL: 7/4/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) 7/5/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) LOV FULL: 8/2/91 Unrated ABC Special Report- 1230PM (1230-103PM) LOV PARTIAL: 7/1/91 (rated as breakout) 7/10/91 12:32PM (28 minutes) OLTL FULL: 7/1/91 Unrated ABC Special Report-2PM (2-3PM) OLTL PARTIAL: 7/29/91 (rated as breakout) SANTA FULL: 7/4/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) 7/5/91 Wimbledon Tennis (1-5PM) YR PARTIAL: 7/10/91 1:02PM (28 minutes); 1230-102PM PBO (110 affs) 7/17/91 (43 minutes); 113-130PM PBO (187 affs) 8/2/91 1230-1PM PBO (135 affs) & 104-130PM PBO (110 affs)

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!

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.

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!

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.

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:

DRAKE HOGESTYN & ALISON SWEENEY TIE FOR MOST SOAP OPERA DIGEST COVERS... In the end, Drake Hogestyn (John) & Alison Sweeney (Sami) tied for the most "Days" actor Soap Opera Digest covers ever, each appearing on 185 covers. Deidre Hall (Marlena) was 3rd with 179 covers. Note that the cover information comes from the issues in Jason47's collection (newsstand issues slightly differ and will sometimes have additional people on the cover). The Top 20: 185 COVERS: Drake Hogestyn (John Black), Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady) 179 COVERS: Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans Black) 167 COVERS: Kristian Alfonso (Hope Brady) 134 COVERS: Peter Reckell (Bo Brady) 121 COVERS: Steve Burton (Harris Michaels) 115 COVERS: Eileen Davidson (Kristen Blake/Susan Banks) 103 COVERS: Genie Francis (Diana Colville) 86 COVERS: Melissa Reeves (Jennifer Deveraux) 85 COVERS: Stephen Nichols (Steve Johnson) 75 COVERS: Arianne Zucker (Nicole Walker) 74 COVERS: Matthew Ashford (Jack Deveraux) 67 COVERS: James Scott (EJ DiMera) 66 COVERS: Mary Beth Evans (Kayla Johnson) 64 COVERS: Galen Gering (Rafe Hernandez) 56 COVERS: Tamara Braun (Ava Vitali/Taylor Walker) 52 COVERS: Nadia Bjorlin (Chloe Lane) 51 COVERS: Cady McClain (Jennifer Deveraux) 47 COVERS: Christie Clark (Carrie Brady), Don Diamont (Carlo Forenza)

APRIL 1991 & MAY 1991 PREEMPTIONS: Only one full preemption (and no partial preemptions) took place in April 1991 and May 1991. Partial preemption data for the weeks of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91 is not yet available. The Nielsen books, however, did confirm all of the soaps aired 10 telecasts during those two weeks, except Santa Barbara, which had 9 telecasts. Newspaper listings confirmed Santa Barbara the preempted in question happened on 5/27/91. SANTA FULL: 5/27/91 NBA Showtime (unknown timings) & NBA Playoff (unknown timings)

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

Never heard of that site, so I have not.

64 Confirmed Full Preemptions of BB: March 1987-July 1993: (64 TOTAL) 7/7/87 The Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/8/87 The Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/9/87 The Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/10/87 The Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/14/87 Young and the Restless (1-2PM) 7/15/87 Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/17/87 Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/23/87 Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 7/29/87 Iran Contra Hearings 26 (1230-630PM) 8/3/87 (Local Fill for local news after Iran Contra Hearings 27, 9AM-122PM & $25,000 Pyramid 122-130PM) 9/7/87 US Open Tennis (1230-6PM) 9/11/87 US Open Tennis (11AM-302PM) 11/26/87 J.T. (130-230PM) 11/27/87 A Thanksgiving Treasure (1230-2PM) 12/8/87 Unrated Summit Signing Ceremony (unknown timings) 12/25/87 NBA on CBS (12-230PM) 12/31/87 As the World Turns (130-230PM) 1/1/88 Cotton Bowl (130-504PM) 2/15/88 NBA on CBS (130-4PM) 9/5/88 US Open Tennis (1230-6PM) 9/9/88 US Open Tennis 2 (123-4PM) 11/24/88 NFL Football (1230-311PM) 11/25/88 Care Bears Movie II (1230-2PM) 12/26/88 Movie Special: Quarterback Princess (1230-2PM) 1/2/89 Cotton Bowl (130-445PM) 1/20/89 Price Is Right 2 (130-2PM) 2/20/89 NBA on CBS (130-4PM) 9/4/89 US Open Tennis (1230-6PM) 9/8/89 US Open Tennis 2 (112-547PM) 11/23/89 Dink the Little Dinosaur (130-2PM) 11/24/89 Garfield & Friends (130-2PM) 12/25/89 Homecoming (1230-230PM) 1/1/90 Mobil Cotton Bowl (130-516PM) 2/19/90 NBA on CBS (130-408PM) 9/3/90 US Open Tennis (1230-6PM) 9/7/90 US Open Tennis (1236-530PM) 11/22/90 H.R. Pufnstuf (130-2PM) 11/23/90 A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1230-230PM) 12/25/90 Homecoming: Christmas Story (1230-230PM) 1/1/91 Mobil Cotton Bowl (130-519PM) 1/9/91 Unrated CBS Special Report- Geneva (unknown timings) 1/17/91 War in the Gulf 3 (10AM-4PM) 1/30/91 Unrated War in the Gulf 36 (unknown timings) 2/15/91 Unrated War in the Gulf 39 (unknown timings) 2/27/91 Unrated War in the Gulf 59 (unknown timings) 3/14/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) 3/15/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) 9/2/91 US Open Tennis (1230-7PM) 9/6/91 (Local Fill for US Open Tennis) 10/11/91 (Local Fill for Thomas Senate Hearings) 11/28/91 NFL Football (1234-340PM) 12/25/91 Movie: Homecoming (1-3PM) 1/1/92 Mobil Cotton Bowl (130-530PM) 2/17/92 XVI Winter Olympics (1-6PM) 3/19/92 NCAA Basketball: Various Teams (1210-238PM) 3/20/92 NCAA Basketball: Various Teams (1210-240PM) 9/7/92 US Open Tennis (1230-6PM) 9/11/92 US Open Tennis (1230-5PM) 11/26/92 Bugs Bunny Thanksgiving Diet (130-2PM) 12/25/92 House Without a Christmas Tree (1230-2PM) 1/1/93 Blockbuster Bowl (130-506PM) 1/20/93 Family Feud Special (130-2PM) 3/18/93 NCAA Basketball: Various Teams (1210-237PM) 3/19/93 NCAA Basketball: Various Teams (1210-225PM) Note: **4/19/93 Unrated special report (130-210PM) (Note: May not have aired anywhere but might have been skipped to not mess up a YR crossover that same week, so officially being put on the partial preemption list) Are the BB historians in agreement with the above list. There had to be exactly 64 preemptions to have (per the script) # 1575 air on July 1, 1993. So, is 4/19/93 the episode you think is the one that "aired" (possibly not anywhere) and was skipped over to keep the YR crossover on track? I still have to confirm the April 1991-August 1991 preemptions for final confirmation, but per the above, there should not be any BB preemptions during that 5 month time frame.

MARCH 1991 PREEMPTIONS: Week of 3/18/91-3/22/91 is pending. Checking the two books around it confirms that all soaps aired 5 telecasts that week, but partial preemptions won't be known until the week is available. ATWT FULL: 3/14/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) & NCAA Basketball 2 (235-5PM) 3/15/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) & NCAA Basketball 2 (235-5PM) BB FULL: 3/14/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) 3/15/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) GL FULL: 3/14/91 NCAA Basketball 2 (235-5PM) 3/15/91 NCAA Basketball 2 (235-5PM) YR FULL: 3/14/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM) 3/15/91 NCAA Basketball 1 (12-235PM)

October 18.