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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/30/79-5/4/79 & 5/7/79-5/11/79:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/22/82-11/26/82 & 11/29/82-12/3/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/6/82-12/10/82 & 12/13/82-12/17/82:

Great news...it didn't take as long as expected, but the missing 6 weeks of 1979 have been found. Still waiting for the remaining 4 weeks, but will post those when they arrive. I am also going to edit these in to the correct thread so these charts will be posted in order. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/28/79-6/1/79 & 6/4/79-6/8/79:

Exciting news! The 6 missing weeks from 1979 have been tracked down! Two weeks of new data has been posted in the 1970's thread. The other 4 weeks are yet to be delivered, but expect them soon! Update on data: Fans will now have full weekly data (Nielsen ratings & preemptions) available from 9/4/78-10/11/87 except for 2 weeks: 12/25/78-12/29/78 and 8/24/81-8/28/81.

The earliest articles I could find in archives have columnist Gary Deeb breaking the Texas cancellation news on October 14, although NBC didn't make its official cancellation announcement until 11/16/82: 10/14/82 10/18/82 11/16/82

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/25/82-10/29/82 & 11/1/82-11/5/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/8/82-11/12/82 & 11/15/82-11/19/82:

Yes, much more than that. The 1991 "Days" contract I was sent by a U/5 had these as the AFTRA minimums for 1991. So these were just the rates that U/5s got. Principal actors would have gotten much more:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/27/82-10/1/82 & 10/4/82-10/8/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/11/82-10/15/82 & 10/18/82-10/22/82:

Just typed up the first-ever partial preemption for BB: 4/6/87-4/10/87 Bold and the Beautiful CBS 5.4 20 197 94 Tuesday episode- 130-149 & 157-2PM (22 minutes)

Here are the ratings for all of the Thanksgiving Week 1982 specials: CBS Afternoon Playhouse...Friday 11AM-12PM...8.1/26 CBS Library...Thursday 5-6PM...2.1/6 CBS NFL Football Pregame...Thursday 12-1230PM...12.9/32 CBS NFL Football...Thursday 1230-336PM...20.2/53 CBS NFL Football Postgame...Thursday 336-4PM...13.6/37 CBS Famous Classic Tales...Thursday 4-5PM...2.8/8 CBS Famous Classic Tales...Friday 10-11AM...4.9/18 NBC Macy's Thanksgiving Parade...Thursday 9AM-12PM...16.3/40 ABC NCAA Football...Friday 12-330PM...12.1/34 CBS NCAA Football Pregame...Friday 230-242PM...6.1/16 CBS NCAA Footballl...Friday 242-611PM...13.0/31 NBC NFL '82 Pregame...Thursday 330-4PM...6.5/18 NBC NFL Football...Thursday 4-733PM...18.5/47 CBS Rascals and Robbers...Friday 1230-230PM...5.9/16 CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade...Thursday 9AM-12PM...9.4/24

I just happened to be typing up the week of 3/23/87 today, so here are the first week of BB's ratings: 3/23/87-3/27/87 Bold and the Beautiful CBS 5.6 20 197 94 Yes, the overall ratings for them are: US Open Monday rating is 3.5/10 US Open Friday rating is 3.7/15 Thanks! You see, the Nielsen books never mention the word "preemption." That's just something I have to figure out from the charts & other data. The Nielsen books also don't do any rankings. So. all of the preemption data & rankings have to be figured out from the data the books do provide. But it's a fun puzzle to piece together!!

Thanks! Like I said in the past, any possible mistakes anyone sees, please bring them to my attention, since I want the records to be totally accurate! The rest of 1982 I see only two more CBS preemptions, on Thanksgiving and day after Thanksgiving.

For those interested, here are the CBS ratings for the US Open on 9/6/82 and 9/10/82:

Here you go! I'm glad you're not complaining, since this is a lot of work to do!! 52 weeks x 10 years = 520 charts! My first sort is by rating, the secondary sort is by program title, so any programs tied in ratings will be listed alphabetically, not by share. That was me. I think the error happened because the chart said ABC soaps aired TU-F and CBS soaps aired TU-TH. I probably just mistakenly read it as TU-F for CBS. So, as we know from earlier this week when I misread a 6 for an 8, that mistakes will happen, but I always do try my best. I would hope my accuracy would still be in the 98 to 99 percent range when I have completed all 520 weeks for 1980-1989! I have posted the corrected chart above. Here's the chart where I just misread TU-TH as TU-F...

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/30/82-9/3/82 & 9/6/82-9/10/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/13/82-9/17/82 & 9/20/82-9/24/82:

Were you "sick" for the Doug/Julie wedding on 10/1/76 or did you have to miss it for school??

FROM THE VAULT: SUZANNE ROGERS JOINS THE ROCKETTES, 1961...April 7, 1961 Petersburg, Virginia Progess-Index article

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/9/82-8/13/82 & 8/16/82-8/20/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/23/82-8/27/82:

Would you just watch in the summers of high school and then start full-time in 1977?

HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY, SUZANNE ROGERS! Here's a look at the first two "Days of Our Lives" scripts of Suzanne Rogers (Maggie). Episode # 1946, which aired August 20, 1973 and Episode # 1948, which aired August 22, 1973. For those reading along who may not know, at the time Mickey Horton had amnesia when he met Maggie.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/12/82-7/16/82 & 7/19/82-7/23/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/26/82-7/30/82 & 8/2/82-8/6/82:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 6/21/82-6/25/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/28/82-7/2/82 & 7/5/82-7/9/82:

The Nielsen books start listing VCR percentages at some point in 1988 or 1989. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/24/82-5/28/82 & 5/31/82-6/4/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/7/82-6/11/82 & 6/14/82-6/18/82:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/26/82-4/30/82 & 5/3/82-5/7/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/10/82-5/14/82 & 5/17/82-5/21/82: