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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:

Enjoy! All My Children 1981-1982 TV Season Demos (as of 4/4/82) 129 telecasts, 9.5 rating, 32 share; 7,740,000 viewers TOTAL: 1298 LADY OF HOUSE: 814 WORKING WOMAN: 234 TOTAL WOMEN: 896 18-34: 439 18-49: 645 25-54: 475 35-64: 328 55+: 214 TOTAL MEN: 239 18-34: 105 18-49: 161 25-54: 125 35-64: 99 55+: 62 TOTAL TEENS (12-17): 92 TEEN GIRLS: 69 TEEN BOYS: 23 TOTAL KIDS (2-11): 71 2-5: 44 6-11: 27

Password Plus 1981-1982 TV Season ratings (as of 3/26/82): 103 telecasts (the final week it aired it only had 142 affiliates/73 percent coverage) 3.4 rating 13 share 2,770,000 viewers Is that good, or did you need the demos for it too? You'd have to give me a week to refer to.

Just some brief partial interruptions on Tue/Wed/Thu that week: 4/28/86-5/2/86 General Hospital ABC 8.8 31 207 99 Wednesday episode- 3-348 & 353-4PM (55 minutes) 4/28/86-5/2/86 All My Children ABC 7.5 26 210 99 Wednesday episode- 1-116 & 124-2PM (52 minutes) 4/28/86-5/2/86 As the World Turns CBS 6.6 23 205 99 Tue ep- 230-250 & 257-3PM (23 minutes); Thu ep- 230-250 & 256-3PM (24 minutes)

Nothing. That was me seeing it as 8.9 on the Fast National page. When I noticed your message, I looked at the page again and it actually says 6.9. The Fast National weeks are sometimes a little harder to read, and I don't always do a double-check of them because they are different than the usual 2-weeks-per-issue issues, which are listed by time period (just the like the order I have them listed on the charts I type up), as opposed to the Fast Nationals, which are only listed alphabetically. So, if you ever notice something weird like that, please point it out. I've done my best to put the accurate numbers each week. I double check the 2-weeks-per-issue issues, so there's much less of a chance I have anything wrong in those. So the ones to be on the lookout would be random jumps in the Fast National weeks. I have replaced the wrong chart above and issued the correct one, with YR at 6.9 for that week: 1978-1989 at the moment. 1977 coming next. Probably next year will be the earlier years of the 1970's, so you need patience until 2024!

Here you go! The Young and the Restless 1981-1982 TV Season Demos (as of 4/4/82) 127 telecasts, 7.4 rating, 28 share; 6,030,000 viewers TOTAL: 1283 LADY OF HOUSE: 792 WORKING WOMAN: 145 TOTAL WOMEN: 920 18-34: 267 18-49: 474 25-54: 389 35-64: 396 55+: 391 TOTAL MEN: 253 18-34: 78 18-49: 112 25-54: 91 35-64: 94 55+: 122 TOTAL TEENS (12-17): 40 TEEN GIRLS: 26 TEEN BOYS: 14 TOTAL KIDS (2-11): 70 2-5: 38 6-11: 32

Search for Tomorrow 1981-1982 TV Season Demos (as of 3/26/82, last CBS telecast) 117 telecasts, 6.8 rating, 23 share; 5,540,000 viewers TOTAL: 1266 LADY OF HOUSE: 772 WORKING WOMAN: 127 TOTAL WOMEN: 885 18-34: 187 18-49: 374 25-54: 351 35-64: 408 55+: 452 TOTAL MEN: 266 18-34: 59 18-49: 93 25-54: 78 35-64: 102 55+: 155 TOTAL TEENS (12-17): 50 TEEN GIRLS: 35 TEEN BOYS: 15 TOTAL KIDS (2-11): 65 2-5: 36 6-11: 29 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 4/5/82-4/9/82 & 4/12/82-4/16/82: FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 4/19/82-4/23/82:

The preemptions are Tue 1/28 and Fri 1/31. The first column is always the "Week of", so it's the "Week of 1/27-1/31" The notes column states the preemptions are Tuesday and Friday.

I just looked at the January 1986 charts. YR preempted twice that month: 1/27/86-1/31/86 Young and the Restless CBS 8.6 27 206 99 Preempted Tuesday- CBS News Special Report/Friday- Memorial Service: Challenger

Thanks! All the time frames are at a different point in the prep period: 1980-1981 is fully posted. 1982 is fully done and ready to post. 1983-1985 charts need to be sorted & cropped. 1986 is being typed up, with 1987 to type up next. So, all in all, things are moving along smoothly with the ratings!