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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:

7.9/31.

They don't provide the ranking. I don't have time to look through all the soaps and figure it out, so once I compile that week's ratings, they get sorted in the Excel chart by rating, which creates the ranking, and gets posted here.

Pretty similar for both weeks: Tom Hughes Marries Margo Montgomery. (June 1, 1983) Week of 5/30/83-6/3/83: ATWT 7.8/25; 6,500,000 Steve Andropolous Marries Betsy Stewart. (May 31, 1984) Week of 5/28/84-6/1/84; ATWT 7.8/26; 6,540,000

What is the date of the wedding you are referring to? I don't have daily episode data, but can get you the weekly average of viewers.

If it weren't for the 19 Watergate preemptions from May 17 to August 6, yes Suzanne would have debuted towards the end of July, but her first episode didn't air until August 20.

I just skimmed through all the June 1984 weeks, and yes, you are correct. GL was never # 1 in June 1984.

You're welcome! I found it funny that Richard Gant was listed as "Special Guest Star", yet Patti LaBelle was only listed as a regular guest star! Always fun to read the credits.

DAYTIME RATINGS FANS, THE ANNOUNCEMENT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! I can now confirm that the weekly daytime Nielsens (and corresponding preemption data) for EVERY WEEK will be available for the time frame of July 1979-September 1987 (except for one pesky week in August 1981). Updates on the remaining weeks needed (October 1987-August 1989) will be posted when available. Please be patient though. This is a ton of data to go through and type up the weekly lists, but know that they will be coming!

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/30/79-8/3/79 & 8/6/79-8/10/79:

When things slow down, I can find any specials that you want the ratings for. Here are that week's list: Daytime Specials: Week of 3/3/80-3/7/80: ABC Afterschool Special 430-530PM Wednesday 10.5/26 NBC Special Treat 4-5PM Tuesday 9.3/24 CBS Library 4-5PM Tuesday 7.9/22 CBS Magazine 10-1054AM Thursday 3.1/15 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/24/80-11/28/80 & 12/1/80-12/5/80:

KETTY LESTER, WHO PLAYED HELEN GRANT ON "DAYS" FROM 1975-1977, MADE HER FIRST ACTING APPEARANCE IN 25 YEARS THIS WEEK ON "THE WONDER YEARS"... Ketty Lester, who played Helen Grant (the mother of Valerie; grandmother of Eli) on "Days of Our Lives" from 1975-1977, made her first acting appearance, per IMDB, since 1998 when she appeared on this week's episode of "The Wonder Years." The left photo is Lester during her time on "Days" and the right photo is her guest appearance on "The Wonder Years."