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I assume you mean 1984? These two weeks are from two different books, so they wouldn't normally be on the same chart that I post, but I'll do it this time. As a reminder, the weekly charts will be coming over the course of the next few months, so (to everyone) please try to limit ratings questions to non-soaps, mainly if you have questions about other daytime shows or Saturday morning shows from 1980-1987.

Those will be coming once I finish compiling the weekly charts. It takes time to do each one. First you have to type out the ratings, then go to another section to get the preemption dates. Then go to another section and figure out what preempted the show. So, while I can't do that list today, you will soon have the weekly charts listing the preemption data for all the soaps from 1980-1987. Those will be ready to be posted sometime later this year. So your gaps will be filled before 2023 ends!

Full Demos aren't listed much in summer, and no seasonal averages for them either in summer. But here are the last Full Demos (a 2-week average for the weeks of 7/12/82 & 7/19/82): Chips M-F: Total Persons: 1500 Lady of House: 459 Working Woman: 85 Total Women: 559 18-34: 184 18-49: 304 25-54: 228 35-64: 239 55+: 246 Total Men: 291 18-34: 135 18-49: 149 25-54: 104 35-64: 86 55+: 124 Total Teens (12-17): 320 Teen Girls: 146 Total Children (2-11): 330 6-11: 267

Sure, Will check now. I have some time this week & next week, so this would be the weeks to ask about stuff. Will be pretty busy again as we head into August. Work is being done at times on the weekly charts, so ratings fans, fear not! At the moment, I want to mainly get all of the charts from 1981-1987 typed up. It's easier if I don't sort them/crop them after I do each one, so I will probably wait until they are all typed up before I go back and start sorting/cropping them, but that process is much quicker than typing them up. I already have a lot of 1982-1984 typed up, so the charts will be coming. Just have to be a little patient. In the meantime, if you have any non-soap questions about daytime (game shows, sitcom reruns, etc...) or Saturday morning shows from 1980-1987, let me know. I did a spot check each month for you: Chips M-F is the title Nielsen lists it as: 4/26/82-4/30/82: 3.4/12; 161 affs/87 clearance; Quarterly hours: 2.9/3.1/3.6/4.1 5/3/82-5/7/82: 3.2/12; 162 affs/88 clearance; Quarterly hours: 2.9/3.0/3.4/3.6 5/24/82-5/28/82: 3.8/14; 164 affs/88 clearance 5/31/82-6/4/82: 3.6/12; 162 affs/88 clearance 6/28/82-7/2/82: 3.9/13; 160 affs/87 clearance; Preempted Friday for Wimbledon Men's Semifinal 7/5/82-7/9/82: 4.2/15; 157 affs/87 clearance 7/26/82-7/30/82: 4.5/15; 158 affs/86 clearance 8/2/82-8/6/82: 4.4/15; 159 affs/87 clearance 8/30/82-9/3/82: 4.5/16; 158 affs/86 clearance; Quarterly hours: 4.0/4.2/4.8/5.2 9/6/82-9/10/82: 4.4/16; 153 affs/84 clearance; Quarterly hours: 3.9/4.2/4.6/4.8 (Wed episode- 3-326 & 343-4PM; 43 minutes) Final Nielsen Average: 89 Telecasts; 4.0/14; 3,330,000 viewers

More puzzling is why the percentage changes too. Sometimes I'll notice a show is listed as being, for example, on 170 affiliates, 70 percent clearance. The next week it is on 171 affiliates, but only 69 percent clearance. Very hard to understand why that would be!

12/25/80 Search/YR/ATWT- NBA on CBS (1230PM, 152 minutes) GL- NBA on CBS & Blue-Gray Football Game (302PM, 185 minutes) 12/25/81 Search/YR/ATWT- Blue-Gray Football Game (1230PM, 207 minutes) GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (357PM, 125 minutes) 12/25/84 YR/ATWT/Capitol- Blue-Gray Football Game (1230PM, 199 minutes) GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (349PM, 148 minutes) 12/25/85 YR/ATWT/Capitol- Blue-Gray Football Game (12PM, 210 minutes) GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (330PM, 180 minutes) 12/25/86 YR/ATWT- NBA on CBS (12PM, 157 minutes) Capitol- NBA on CBS & John Hancock Sun Bowl (237PM, 203 minutes) GL- John Hancock Sun Bowl Records go through November 1987 12/25/87 TBA 12/25/89 TBA Memorial Day 1985- 5/27/85 YR/ATWT/Capitol- all aired GL- NBA Championship Game 1 (3PM, 148 minutes) Memorial Day 1986- 5/26/86 YR/ATWT/Capitol- all aired GL- NBA Championship Game 1 (3PM, 150 minutes)

I guess NBC had more affiliates overall than ABC or CBS.

Yes, that was the original plan. The only reason I pointed it out is that the football game aired for only 17 minutes of GL's 1-hour time slot. So the other 43 minutes, the majority of GL's preemption was actually just a black/blank screen.

CBS was the only network to cover the press conference. The Nielsen book has this: CBS: Carter Press Conference 12-1243PM (sustained, no rating) CBS: Carter Analysis 1243-1PM, (6.7 rating/27 share)

Yes, but the ratings list a big gap, so I couldn't figure out why. I thought maybe it was a weather delay. The only other thing I could think is that they went to Local News due to a weather delay, but when I checked the newspapers, CBS experienced a power failure at the game, which caused a 43-minute blackout from 316-359PM. So, that's why there was no rating on CBS for those 43 minutes. So GL could be said to have been preempted that day by 17 minutes of NCAA Football and 43 minutes of a black screen!

Just saw this unique thing in the ratings, Had to do a little more digging in the newspaper archives to figure out why. Any guesses as to what Guiding Light was preempted for the majority of the hour on 11/25/83??

The half hour ratings for the soaps are in the front part of the book (along with the full demos for each half hour). They are the average of the two-week period, however, so I don't think there's a way to figure out the weekly half-hour averages. However, in the chart pages, they do have the quarterly hour ratings listed for each week. For instance, the week of 10/15/84-10/19/84, "Days" had the following quarterly-hour average ratings: 1-115: 5.7 115-130: 6.2 130-145: 6.5 145-2: 6.5 11/18/85-11/22/85: Press Your Luck...3.7/15 Press (1030AM) only had 81 percent clearance, airing on 168 CBS affiliates that week. The show it lead into, however, Price Is Right 1 (11AM) had 99 percent clearance, airing on 208 affiliates. So, 40 CBS affiliates chose not to air Press.

2/1/82-2/5/82 TPIR 1...7.2/30 TPIR 2...8.5/33 6/27/83-7/1/83: TPIR 1...7.4/28 TPIR 2...10.4/37 2/4/85-2/8/85 TPIR 1...8.0/29 TPIR 2...10.2/37

No big change from the weeks before: 5/28/84-6/1/84...5.4/22 6/4/84-6/8/84...5.0/21 6/11/84-6/15/84...5.2/21 I saw those episodes on GSN. That's the guy who memorized the PYL board and knew exactly when to hit the button! 7/25/83-7/29/83: Search 3.4/12 Days 6.4/20 AW 6.2/21 8/1/83-8/5/83: Search 3.5/13 Days 6.3/20 AW 5.7/19 No bump. Search had .1 higher rating from the previous week. Days & AW dropped from the previous week.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/27/87-7/31/87 & 8/3/87-8/7/87: IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/27/87-7/31/87 & 8/3/87-8/7/87: .9 rating difference the first week of July, but the week I just posted (last week of July 1987) ATWT was closer....just a .7 rating difference below YR.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/29/87-7/3/87 & 7/6/87-7/10/87: IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEK OF 7/6/87-7/10/87:

Here's an added question about this. Since SAG-AFTRA actors are prohibited from discussing their present OR past shows in interviews, does that mean, for example, during the strike Jackee Harry can ONLY discuss Days (or AW) when being interviewed by the press? I would think she would be barred from discussing her primetime career since that is part of the regular SAG-AFTRA contract, so that should apply to her like it does for everyone else.

Sorry, just July 1979-September 1987 at the moment.

If anyone has a question about ratings for a specific game show or Saturday morning cartoon, just ask. I will post when I can. Just list the title and the week you want me to check from 1980-1987.

They probably decided to do that since those shows would have only aired in the Eastern & Central time zones. The hearings were on from 2-5PM, so that would have preempted both YR & BB in the Mountain & Pacific time zones, where the hearings were aired from 11AM-2PM.

I have everything from July 1979-September 1987 except for 1 week in 1981, so it's all there now in my files. I had a little time to figure these two weeks out, so I posted it tonight. The rest of the weekly info will be coming!

The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87. Now we know why I never had any preemptions listed for "Days." Only "Days" and AMC were untouched by the hearings, since they were usually on a lunch break from 1PM-2PM. In order to make the chart read-able, I had to split the YR preemption data into a second line. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87: IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87: