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That was always my plan, since I already had posted all of the Soap Weekly charts many years ago. So, now each year will all be in one place on one page! THE TWO WEEKS IN A ROW "DAYS" WAS RATED # 1... I know this is jumping ahead a bit, but since I just worked on these today, and this is one of the few "Days" celebratory ratings posts I can make, here's a look at the two charts! Here's a look at the two weeks in a row (7/25/88 and 8/1/88) that "Days" reached # 1 in the soap ratings.

I just typed up the 8/1/88 ratings, and Days tied YR for 1st place in rating (7.8), although YR had the higher share (27 to 25). I didn't know after Days was 1st place on its own the week of 7/25/88 that it then tied YR for first place the following week!

NON-SOAPS: EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME SHOWS: WEEKLY NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/4/80-2/8/80 & 5/5/80-5/9/80: As promised earlier this year, I will now start posting a spot-check (4 times a year, February, May, August, November) of the non-soap early morning & daytime shows from 1980-1989. This will give a general sense of how the non-soaps were doing throughout each year, and you can track how their clearances are through the years as well. I am not checking on the preemptions for these, so it will just be the rating/share/affiliates/clearance data. Thanks, Joe!

WEEKLY DAYTIME RATINGS CHARTS BEING POSTED HERE: I've started posting all of the weekly Nielsen charts that were posted here from 1980-1983 on yearly pages at my website, so all of the 1980-Present ratings charts will be available on this index page. 1978-1979 and 1984-1987 will be posted there in the coming days, with 1988 & 1989 to follow once they are posted here. Click here for all weekly Nielsen charts available from 1980-Present: http://www.jason47.com/days/nielsensweekly.html

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/27/87-7/31/87 & 8/3/87-8/7/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/10/87-8/14/87 & 8/17/87-8/21/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/24/87-8/28/87: Note: This is the final "fast national" week. Nielsen started reporting final weekly numbers for every week as of 8/31/87.

UPDATE: On 11/3/19, VR posted this: "I’m going to suspend posting the Daytime TV magazine ratings because I have a better source and have found weekly ratings pretty much from 1985 on, with a few missing weeks. But in the meantime, to confuse everyone even more, I have found that the ratings posted in Daytime TV’s March 1987 issue were the actual ratings for week of August 25-29, 1986 and the April, 1987 issue showed the ratings from October 6-10, 1986. So the magazine was several months behind - even moreso than I thought. It will be much more clearer going forward for me to post clearly defined ratings -ratings for a specific week, instead of these were in Daytime TV but I don’t know which week they represent. Look forward to sharing this stuff that was in my basement." So, we now know these complete weekly ratings were in VR's basement in 2019. Where are they now in 2023?? In a later post about the Iran-Contra week, VR states "The week of 7/6 to 7/10/1987 has to be taken with a grain of salt because Y&R aired only on Monday that week and there were massive pre emptions. AMC, DOOL,LOV and RH had the least pre-emptions." So, obviously VR had some sort of Nielsen lists which even listed the preemption dates (not ever posted in soap magazines), so that points to some "un-final" Nielsen lists in VR's possession. I did contact someone at SON tonight to see if it was possible for them to still be able to find VR's email address (when last a member at SON in 2020) and to email them and tell them that Jason47 would like to get those two specific weeks of Nielsens. So, that's as much as I can do to track down VR. Now we wait! Just checking this thread PAGE by PAGE, has found that VR did post the 12/14/87 weekly ratings, yay! (I didn't find that week originally by doing a general search in the search box, but did now by reading through this thread): 12/14/87-12/18/1987 AMC 8.2 OLTL 8.1 GH 8.1 Y&R 7.9 DOOL 6.8 ATWT 6.7 GL 5.9 B&B 5.3 SB 5.2 AW 5.1 LOV 4.2 RH 3.2 I stopped checking the thread, but it looks like the 12/14/87 ratings post was VR's last-ever post of ratings data. Of all the years for VR to post, they post 1987, the one year that helps fill-in our two last missing weeks (other than 8/24/81, a fast weekly week). What are the odds of that?? Yay, VR, whoever you are!! Ok, so now we need contact from VR to confirm the shares and preemption data for the two weeks from 1987. And preferably to email me scans of those two weeks. Fingers crossed!

Yes, it will be interesting to see if the Nielsen books will differ some with what was posted in SOW as of Fall 1989. I an typing up July 1988 tonight, so I am about one year ahead of the charts I am posting here. I am going to try to keep typing up 4 weeks a day (as I post 4 weeks a day here on SON), so that I will keep being a year or so ahead in the posted charts. I might slow down once I get to 1990, since all of the SOW charts are already posted on my site. So, once we get to the end of 1989 here, there will probably be a little slow down of my posts on here until I can get 1990-1992 typed up/sorted/cropped and finally posted here.

That's why I checked other weeks surrounding the missing week. So, out of the 72 ratings points that I checked, VR matches the Nielsen book for 70 of the 72 soaps (12 soaps a week x 6 weeks), only differing one tenth of a point for AW one week and two tenths of a point for YR another week. So getting 70 out of 72 ratings correct with the Nielsen book is a 97 percent success rate. She obviously didn't just "create" them out of nowhere, but had some sort of official ratings lists from somewhere. That's why I feel pretty confident for using the data for the week of 10/19/87 as a "placeholder" at least, until hopefully that Nielsen book is tracked down somewhere. On a good note, there is a possible lead on one of the two "missing" books from 1991, so if we get that one, we will only need 1 week from 1981, 2 from 1987 (but we now have VR's ratings for one of those two weeks) and one from 1991 (the two from 1991 would just be getting us the additional info: Demos, Affiliates, Clearance, Preemptions) since we already have the ratings for those weeks from SOD. So, if we add in VR's ratings for 10/19/87, that means we will only be missing ratings for just 2 weeks from 1979-Present (8/24/81 and 12/14/87). The two differences I noticed actually both involve "breakouts": The AW 10/7/87 Wednesday broadcast is a breakout, 4.1 rating, not listed in the "normal" ratings. Same for the YR 11/18/87 Wed. broadcast, another breakout (this one 22 minutes long) with a 4.6 rating. By taking that low 4.6 rating out (for a third of the Wed. episode), that could have easily pushed YR's rating up two-tenths of a point as the Nielsen book has. Perhaps the lists VR had access to were lists that had the ratings including those as "regular" episodes, before the network notified Nielsen to count them separately. It does add a little more credence to VR's data, at least in my opinion.

Does anyone know who the poster VanessaReardon was? That person last posted in 2020, but posted complete weeks of Nielsen ratings for 1987. Luckily, one of the weeks posted is one of the missing weeks we need, 10/19/87-10/23/87. They posted most of 1987, but not December 1987, where we still need the week of 12/14/87-12/18/87. Just wondered if anyone had contact info for that person. They posted some shares as well when soaps tied in the rankings, so it looks like maybe they have the shares that they could post for 10/19/87 too or might have the week of data we need for 12/14/87. I spot-checked the data they posted for around the time frame of October 1987, and it matches the Nielsen books exactly for the weeks of 9/28/87, 10/26/87, 11/2/87 and 11/9/87. The only differences I found was the week of 10/5/87. They posted AW got a 4.4, while the Nielsen book says it was 4.5. Also, the week of 11/16/87, they put YR getting a 7.7, but Nielsen book has 7.9, which actually makes YR (not GH) the winner of that week. So, based on all of that, it looks like the data they posted for the "missing week" of 10/19/87 will be as close to correct as possible, and I will put that in the Nielsen chart for that week as a placeholder (crediting VanessaReardon as the stats poster), which was this: 10/19/87-10/23/1987 GH 7.8 AMC 7.6 Y&R 7.4 (higher share) OLTL 7.4 DOOL 6.4 ATWT 6.1 GL 5.5 B&B 4.9 AW 4.6 SB 4.5 LOV 4.2 RH 3

Looks like you have most of it right, except when Mickey wandered off. He got amnesia in 1973. It was when he returned to Salem that he eventually shot Bill in February 1976. (Also it is Maggie Simmons, not Maggie Douglas). July 1973- Mickey is depressed, considering suicide as he recovers from emergency heart bypass surgery. He suffers a sharp pain in his head and collapses (then wanders off with amnesia, meeting Maggie at her farm in August 1973). July 1974- Tom sees a photo of "Marty" in the newspaper and tracks him down at Maggie's farm. February 1976- After finding out Mike's blood type does not match his, Mickey finally realizes he's not his father, buys a gun and shoots Bill. Mickey is sent to Bayview (where he meets Marlena in June 1976). All those dates come from the monthly recaps by DSN, so you can read much more in-depth here: "Days of Our Lives" Monthly Synopses from Daytime Serial Newsletter 1972-1973 January-June 1974 July-December 1974 January-June 1975 July-December 1975 January-June 1976 July-December 1976

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/29/87-7/3/87 & 7/6/87-7/10/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

KEN CORDAY TO PERFORM HIS FIRST PIANO CONCERT IN ALMOST 50 YEARS...THREE NIGHTS ONLY THIS NOVEMBER... At the age of six, Ken Corday taught himself how to play the piano by creating and practicing his own music. It wasn’t long until Ken’s parents received a call from Professor Tanamichi Sogito who, impressed by Ken’s music, offered to take Ken on as a student at the age of 8 at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City. As a teenager, Ken also developed a love for the drums and went on to play drums in many rock groups, culminating in touring with the band Lucky Mud throughout the Southwest, Bay Area, and Hawaii. In 1973, Ken enrolled at UCSC, and studied Jazz improvisation and ethnomusicology. His mentor, Professor Randy Masters, introduced Ken to modern Jazz, especially Brazilian new beat (Bossa Nova) music, and Afro-Cuban rhythms and cadences. Graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in music, Ken continued to Post-Graduate Studies at San Jose State University where his piano playing flourished under the tutelage of Lou Harrison and Higo Hirada. In 1977 Ken earned a master’s degree in music, and later that same year, Ken launched his composing career in television, specifically for Days of our Lives where he continues to compose the show’s music. He’s earned six Emmy Awards for music composition. After almost 50 years since his last piano performance, Ken will be returning to the stage to perform his first piano concert featuring a collection of his own never-before-heard, original music. All proceeds from ticket sales for the concert series will go to benefit the SAG/AFTRA Foundation’s Emergency Assistance Program and the important work they continue to do. For more information and to buy tickets: https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/songswithoutwords

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/8/87-6/12/87 & 6/15/87-6/19/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 6/22/87-6/26/87:

The primetime charts for the 1960's and 1970's are arriving much quicker than the daytime charts, so if you have any interest or want a specific soap or other primetime show posted from those decades, check out the appropriate thread (I posted once in the '60s daytime thread, but I also posted in the primetime soaps thread, so I guess that would be the more appropriate place for this discussion).

If you've been following the daytime ratings threads, you've seen me posting the weekly daytime ratings for 1979-1989. For primetime fans, the primetime charts for some of the 1960's and 1970's are arriving long before the daytime charts will, so if anyone has a specific week of primetime soap or other primetime show they would like the chart posted for, let me know. Here's the primetime chart of the night that "Days of Our Lives" premiered, 11/8/65...

Unfortunately, the primetime ratings are coming in first for the 1960's and 1970's, so we still have to wait awhile for the daytime batch, but in the meantime, here's a look at the primetime ratings on the day that "Days of Our Lives" premiered, 11/8/65...

You're in luck, since there was some overlap at the beginning of September 1987. There's a few weeks where they issued books with the old numbers, but also issued books with the new numbers, and the results are quite different between the two. I was only going to post the "official" numbers when it came time for that, but since you asked, I will post both sets of numbers: the old system vs. the new system, so your questions will be answered then once we get to September 1987. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/11/87-5/15/87 & 5/18/87-5/22/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/25/87-5/29/87 & 6/1/87-6/5/87:

PREEMPTION DATA CONFIRMED FOR THE TWO "MISSING WEEKS" IN 1991...ALL PREEMPTION DATA TO BE AVAILABLE FOR JANUARY 1979-MAY 1992 (except one week in 1981) Santa Barbara had one preemption during the two consecutive "missing weeks" of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91. A quick check of newspapers confirms that SB was preempted on 5/27/91 for NBA Playoffs. So, with that, we have the full preemption data for all soaps from January 1979-May 1992 (missing just the week of 8/24/81). Exact data on PARTIAL preemptions will not be available for the fast weekly weeks (4 per year) from 1979-1987, but all FULL preemptions will now be known for soap history fans! Telecasts (should all be 15 more telecasts if no preemptions during the weeks of 5/20/91, 5/27/91, 6/3/91) As of 5/17/91-6/7/91 AMC 159-174 AW 159-174 ATWT 165-180 BB 164-179 DAYS 158-173 GH 161-176 GL 160-175 LOV 161-176 OLTL 160-175 SB 157-171 (1 preemption during the two missing weeks of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91) YR 168-183

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 4/20/87-4/24/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/27/87-5/1/87 & 5/4/87-5/8/87:

FROM THE VAULT: THE NIGHT MIKE HORTON WAS CONCEIVED... Episode # 569...February 6, 1968 Episode # 570...February 7, 1968 NOTE: This script moves the storyline 10 minutes back, so the scenes are played again: Episode # 571...February 8, 1968

I fixed that error within seconds. Surprised you had time to see it, since I replaced the chart almost immediately!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/23/87-3/27/87 & 3/30/87-4/3/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/6/87-4/10/87 & 4/13/87-4/17/87:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/23/87-2/27/87 & 3/2/87-3/6/87: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/9/87-3/13/87 & 3/16/87-3/20/87:

UPDATED CHART FOR WEEKS OF 11/11/85 & 11/18/85: With this missing page arriving as part of the update, AMC, AW, ATWT and CAP stations & clearances are now available for the weeks of 11/11/85 & 11/18/85. Here is the updated chart, also now posted in place of the old one: I can only speak for "Days", but "Days" has only been preempted 3 times for Christmas (and that is counting if it falls on a weekend too, no preemptions on 12/22-12/23-12/24-12/26-12/27): The 3 Christmas Day preemptions were in 1997, 2000 and 2006. So, "Days" has pretty much always aired a new episode on Christmas Day. https://jason47.com/days/preemptions.html

"MISSING WEEK" 12/14/87-12/18/87 Preemptions (confirmed via Telecasts as of 12/13 & 12/27): The Christmas Day preemptions for all ABC & CBS soaps means their telecast numbers should go up by 9 during the missing week, and the NBC soaps should go up by 10 telecasts, which they all do. So there were NO full preemptions for the missing week of 12/14-12/18/87. SOAP TELECASTS: As of 12/13-As of 12/27 AMC 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) AW 51-61 ATWT 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25) BB 57-66 (1 preemption 12/25) DAYS 54-64 GH 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) GL 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25) LOV 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) OLTL 53-62 (1 preemption 12/25) RYAN 55-64 (1 preemption 12/25) SB 52-62 YR 58-67 (1 preemption 12/25)