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1978-1979 TV SEASON AVERAGES (ending 4/20/79): Differences from Wikipedia chart (all .1 difference): The Young and the Restless 8.6 As the World Turns 8.2 Search for Tomorrow 7.6 Ryan's Hope 7.2 Love of Life 5.8 Wikipedia chart (time slot averages of NBC soaps): Another World 7.5 Days of Our Lives 6.8 The Doctors 6.3 Note: For Richer, For Poorer 2.1 (last episode 9/29/78) listed as part of previous season in Nielsen book.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/26/83-9/30/83 & 10/3/83-10/7/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/10/83-10/14/83 & 10/17/83-10/21/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/29/83-9/2/83 & 9/5/83-9/9/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/12/83-9/16/83 & 9/19/83-9/23/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/8/83-8/12/83 & 8/15/83-8/19/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/22/83-8/26/83:

Trying to get a lot posted while I can. Will be busier in the next week or so, so enjoy the quick posts while they last. But hope to continue posting 2 charts most days in September.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/11/83-7/15/83 & 7/18/83-7/22/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/25/83-7/29/83 & 8/1/83-8/5/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 6/20/83-6/24/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/27/83-7/1/83 & 7/4/83-7/8/83: I'm Telling season ratings as of 1/2/88: 16 telecasts; 2.7 rating; 9 share; 2,350,000 viewers 1/2/88 episode data: 107 affiliates; 57 percent coverage; 2.5 rating; 8 share; 2,220,000 viewers

1978-1989 is available at the moment. The 1955-1977 data will be coming in more slowly, but over the next few years, that should be available. Just not sure when that will be. Also, not sure how far back the affiliate data goes (if they list that sort of thing in the 50s or 60s) but I believe it may go back to at least 1970, so you will have that info in the coming years.

Remember if you do those, Nielsen only counts the 48 weeks. The 4 "fast national" weeks don't count, and are only preliminary data, not the final #s, which may change a little.

Glad you are enjoying! Rest of 1980's coming, then slowly but surely, going backwards from 1977 and before. This will be my last week or so of not being too busy, so a reminder, if anyone has a random 1978-1989 game show or Saturday morning cartoon that they want me to look up, let me know in the next week and I will try to post those ratings for you! Just a few percentage points really, hovered in low 90's at the end. 194 affiliates (93 percentage clearance) in its final week: 3/16/87-3/20/87 Capitol CBS 5.6 20 194 93

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/23/83-5/27/83 & 5/30/83-6/3/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/6/83-6/10/83 & 6/13/83-6/17/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/25/83-4/29/83 & 5/2/83-5/6/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/9/83-5/13/83 & 5/16/83-5/20/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/4/83-4/8/83 & 4/11/83-4/15/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 4/18/83-4/22/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/9/78-1/13/78 & 1/16/78-1/20/78: Here is a reissue of these charts, with the full preemption data now listed. I have replaced the chart in the thread with this one.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/7/83-3/11/83 & 3/14/83-3/18/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 3/21/83-3/25/83 & 3/28/83-4/1/83:

Thanks, I just checked the timings of it, and the recording cuts off a little early, but if it hadn't, it would have filled the full 10 minutes, so that's why it wasn't rated. There were no ads during it.

I checked the rest of that fast national week, since they don't have them in nightly chart form like the usual books. Whatever aired from 1050-11PM was considered "sustaining" and did not get a rating. If it had aired in any of the other 48 weeks of "normal" ratings it would have listed that program somewhere in the book. But the fast nationals are only a few pages and just the bare minimum of info. Thanks for figuring out what aired for those 10 minutes, because the Nielsen book left me wondering!

That may be one of the reasons ABC didn't mind showing Loving in primetime. It was one of the 4 weeks per year that didn't count toward any yearly averages, such as the ABC Sunday Night Movie package, which is what it officially aired as. I did notice that the Loving timeslot was only from 9 to 1050PM.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/7/83-2/11/83 & 2/14/83-2/18/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 2/21/83-2/25/83 & 2/28/83-3/4/83:

I was going to provide the quarterly hour ratings for that matchup, but 6/20-6/26/83 is a fast national week, so those are not available.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/10/83-1/14/83 & 1/17/83-1/21/83: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/24/83-1/28/83 & 1/31/83-2/4/83:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/14/79-5/18/79 & 5/21/79-5/25/79: So, that wraps up all of 1979! The charts have also been added into the correct portion of the thread, so you can read all of the 1978 and 1979 charts in order.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 12/20/82-12/24/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/27/82-12/31/82 & 1/3/83-1/7/83:

I subtracted the Suzanne Rogers tribute at the end, which wasn't technically part of the episode, but even with that, at 49:57, yes it is the longest episode.

The word's been out asking if anyone has the Nielsen books that were still needed. So, someone responded this week that they did have the needed 1979 issues. Simple as that!