Members JoeCool Posted June 18, 2023 Members Share Posted June 18, 2023 1/1 and 1/8: All My Children solid Number 1. GH and Y&R battling it out for Number 2 and 3. These soaps will be the top 3 for the season. ATWT & AW began their descent of the top 3 and out of the top 5. ATWT and AW's dominance is now over. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted June 18, 2023 Members Share Posted June 18, 2023 SEARCH doesn't appear to be doing that bad at the start of '79. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeCool Posted June 18, 2023 Members Share Posted June 18, 2023 (edited) Search is strong at Number 5 and 6. Edited June 18, 2023 by JoeCool 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted June 19, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 This was the Corringtons. They started around September 78 so their stories were now in full swing with the Travis and Liza romance the A story. and ratings jumped from high 6's and low 7's to 8.5. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeCool Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 I thought the Corringtons were head writers during the time. That explains the sharp rise. Thanks @Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members will81 Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 Yeah 100% LOL was probably on 18 min without commercials. I think even B&B is close to 20 min or maybe 19 these days Yes I have an approximate date of Sep 11 for their start 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) 1979 was a turning point year in daytime: As the World Turns loses #1. Huge rise of ABC. Another World expands to 90 minutes. Love of Life new time slot which isolates it from the rest of the CBS soap line up and the show tanks. Edited June 19, 2023 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeCool Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 Yep. All My Children takes Number 1. A strong General Hospital and Y&R are now Number 2 and 3 and ATWT falls to No. 4. Yes the beginning of the end for Love of Life. ABC is very strong and the AW expansion fails. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted June 19, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 Poor Love of Life. After decades of leading off the CBS soaps, it's shunted to 4pm with limited clearances and immediately tumbles in the ratings, leading to cancellation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/15/79-1/19/79 & 1/22/79-1/26/79: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) You are right; I seem to recall in one of the Soap Encyclopedias (Gerard J Waggett's in 1997 I think) that Love of Life indeed held a distinction of being 5 minutes less to allow a national news break for the last 5 minutes. At one point when the show had a change in timeslot, it was a full 30 minutes, but then when it reverted back to their late morning timeslot, it was cut back by 5 minutes again. Edited June 19, 2023 by Gray Bunny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 What happened on YR and SFT to cause a huge jump in ratings? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeCool Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 1/15: Very Strong Number 1 GH and Number 2. Y&R also very strong. 1/22 The Young and The Restless at Number 1 with an 11!! Up 1.3 ratings points from 1/15. Very strong GH at Number 2 at 10.7. Strong AMC at Number 3 up. .2 of a ratings point. The top 3 soaps are above 10.0!! Search is strong at Number 4 - solid lead over Number 5 One Life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 Wow, definitely wondering what happened on SEARCH and Y&R, had CBS not changed the time slot, they may have given ABC a better run for their money. Amazing to see SEARCH at #4 and Y&R at such a high #1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted June 19, 2023 Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 Travis and Liza were heating up around that time on SEARCH. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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