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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/23/81-11/27/81 & 11/30/81-12/4/81: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/7/81-12/11/81 & 12/14/81-12/18/81: 10/1/76.

1978-1989 at the moment. Earlier years to come at a later date.

Staff bios pages updated: https://www.jason47.com/days/staffbios.html

They only list weekly ratings. So weekly ratings only for 1979-1989.

A 43 share! Almost half the TV's tuned in to that week. LUKE/LAURA 1981 WEDDING WEEK RATINGS PAGE:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/26/81-10/30/81 & 11/2/81-11/6/81: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/9/81-11/13/81 & 11/16/81-11/20/81:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/28/81-10/2/81 & 10/5/81-10/9/81: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/12/81-10/16/81 & 10/19/81-10/23/81:

VIMEO AUDITION POSTED TWO MONTHS AGO...FEMALE CHARACTER POSSIBLY OVERDOSES... Note: Names/ages/etc... in auditions are usually changed. In this one, they use the names Wendy Shin and JJ Deveraux. https://vimeo.com/834107169 First scene: WOMAN: What's going on here? MAN: She's seizing. WOMAN: She's barely breathing. What's her name? MAN: Wendy. Wendy Shin. WOMAN: Wendy (shakes her). Wendy, can you hear me? Wendy wake up. What did she take? I need to know so I can help her. What did she take? MAN: I don't know. WOMAN: Okay, Wendy. Wendy, come on open your eyes. Let's go. MAN: Is she going to be okay? WOMAN: How old is she? MAN: I'm not sure. Maybe 22. WOMAN: I've got a possible OD. Back-loading dock of The Bistro. A female, early 20's, Non-responsive. Pulse is low. Seizure and vomiting. Request paramedics and ambulance. Come on Wendy, come on, sit up. Can you sit up? Come on, Wendy, open your eyes. Can you hear me? Breathe, Wendy. Second scene: WOMAN: I'll take those. Hand over the bag now. I asked you if you knew what she took. What are these? MAN: No idea. WOMAN: Do you know how many she had? MAN: No. WOMAN: Okay, I'm going to need to see some ID. MAN: He's my son. His name's JJ Deveraux. WOMAN: I need to see your driver's license, JJ. SECOND MAN: What's going on, Macauley? WOMAN: Early 20's, female, overdose. Non-responsive. Two doses of Narcan on the scene. She's en route to University. This young man was with her...with these. SECOND MAN: Okay, we'll take it from here. WOMAN: Yes, sir.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/24/81-8/28/81: NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/31/81-9/4/81 & 9/7/81-9/11/81: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/14/81-9/18/81 & 9/21/81-9/25/81:

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:

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.

Quarterly hour averages for these two weeks: 2/23/81-2/27/81: 1-2PM AMC...8.1, 8.8, 9.2, 9.2 YR...7.6, 8.0, 8.3, 8.7 DAYS...5.5, 5.7, 6.1, 6.1 6/8/81-6/12/81...1230-130PM RYAN/AMC...6.9, 7.1...8.9, 9.6 YR...7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5 DOC/DAYS...3.7, 3.6...5.5, 5.7 Not Kalbir, but I already had this file open for the above question, so CBS schedule for June 1981 is thIs: Jeffersons 10-1030 Alice 1030-11 Price Is Right 1 11-1130 Price Is Right 2 1130-12 (Local) 12-1230 YR 1230-130 ATWT 130-230 Search 230-3 GL 3-4 One Day at a Time 4-430

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/29/81-7/3/81 & 7/6/81-7/10/81: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/81-7/17/81 & 7/20/81-7/24/81:

WELCOME BACK, "DAYS"...A BUSY DAY AT BURBANK STUDIOS AS "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" RESUMES PRODUCTION TODAY... Thanks to the "Days" Burbank fan for sending these photos!

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.

WOMEN LEADING SALEM... Tomorrow, Janet Spellman-Drucker begins her stint as just the fourth woman in 58 years to be an Executive Producer on "Days of Our Lives." Betty Corday, the widow of "Days of Our Lives" co-creator Ted Corday, took over as Executive Producer of the show when her husband passed away in July 1966. Betty helped keep her husband's name in the credits, always being billed as Mrs. Ted Corday, until her death in November 1987. Shelley Curtis was Supervising Executive Producer at "Days" from March 1989 to December 1989, during Al Rabin's brief departure from the show. She remained with "Days" as a Supervising Producer and director until 1991 She was most recently a director at "The Bold and the Beautiful" in 2020. Lisa De Cazotte was Co-Executive Producer at "Days" from January 2012 to July 2015. She had been the long-time Executive Producer of "Passions" and, after leaving "Days" was a Supervising Producer at "The Young and the Restless." She passed away in December 2019. Janet Spellman-Drucker joined "Days" in 1984 as a production associate and was named Co-Executive Producer on August 4, 2023.

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:

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. May 13, 1981 (all times Eastern): ABC Special Report # 1...11:37-11:38AM ABC Special Report # 2...11:41-11:42AM ABC Special Report # 3...11:47-11:50AM ABC Special Report # 4...11:54-11:56AM ABC Special Report # 5...12:04-12:11PM ABC Special Report; 12:30PM...12:30-12:42PM ABC Special Report # 8...12:51-12:53PM ABC Special Report: 1:00PM...1-1:25PM ABC Special Report: 1:35...1:35-4:30PM ABC Special Report # 6...4:46-4:48PM ABC Special Report # 7...5:55-5:59PM CBS Special Report # 1...11:35-11:36AM CBS Special Report # 2...11:44-11:45AM CBS Special Report # 3...11:50-11:52AM CBS Special Report # 4...12:11-12:15PM CBS Special Report # 5...12:25-12:27PM CBS Special Report # 6...12:32-12:35PM CBS Special Report # 7...12:38-12:40PM CBS Special Report # 8...12:54-12:56PM CBS Special Report # 9...1-1:04PM CBS Special Report # 10...1:07-1:09PM CBS News Special Report # 1...1:20-5PM CBS News Special Report # 2...5:55-6PM NBC News Special Report # 1...1:07-1:13PM NBC News Special Report # 2...1:24-1:31PM NBC News Special Report # 3...1:43-1:51PM NBC News Special Report-2PM...2-2:28PM NBC News Special Report # 4...2:47-2:53PM NBC News Special Report-3:07PM...3:07-3:43PM NBC News Special Report # 5...4:12-4:20PM NBC News Special Report # 6...5:11-5:14PM

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:

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.

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.

VARIETY'S REPORT: Via: https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/albert-alarr-days-of-our-lives-janet-drucker-1235688476/ Albert Alarr Out at ‘Days of Our Lives’; Janet Drucker Elevated to Co-Executive Producer By William Earl Albert Alarr is out as executive producer of NBC’s long-running soap opera “Days of Our Lives” after a 20-year tenure as a director and producer for the show. His exit follows a misconduct investigation by “Days” producer Sony Pictures Television. Janet Drucker, a veteran producer who has been with “Days” since 1984, has taken on his duties for leading the production of the daytime serial.

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

THANK YOU, "DAYS" FANS! Thank you to everyone who took a moment and made phone calls and emails this week. Thank you for showing your love and support for the cast & crew of "Days of Our Lives." Thank you to Corday Productions, NBC and Peacock for listening to the "Days" family and making a positive change. Monday begins a new chapter of "Days of Our Lives" and I look forward to what lies ahead for the show as we inch closer to its 60th anniversary! 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.