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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/9/75-6/13/75 & 6/16/75-6/20/75:

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(Note: Per newspaper listings, there were no scheduled preemptions and all daytime shows were scheduled to air every day this week).

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 6/30/75-7/4/75 & 7/7/75-7/11/75:

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All My Children moves to 12:30PM as Ryan's Hope premieres on July 7, 1975. AMC's ratings will decline following the move and will begin to increase when AMC expands to 60 minutes in April 1977. AMC gets its 1pm slot back in January 1977.

Ryan's Hope takes AMC 1pm slot.

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She was also as violently & virulently anti-the hour format as Bill Bell, Claire Labine & Susan Flannery all were. Agnes was literally quoted as telling Pete Lemay that he had lost his mind. ABC used the carrot to get Agnes to go along with them on the change. Their offer: more studio space plus some money to pay more actors. She was in a cramped space. What's a girl to do? (By 1979 Lemay was convinced he'd been wrong & she'd been right.) 

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Bill Bell also preferred 30 minutes. We know from the 1980s ratings thread that Y&R had a post-expansion slump. 

I don't know if this was answered earlier, but how long did Bill Bell write for Days after it expanded to 1 hour? Also did Susan Flannery depart from Days around the time it expanded to 1 hour?

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There was someone else who worked in soaps who had nothing good to say about the expansion and I can't remember who it was. Maybe a writer who largely left the format before the expansion and was connected to AMC.

She refused to watch the show and said going to an hour would kill soaps and water down the shows social relevance. She apparently didn't think much of AMC since it had gone to an hour. I'll try to find the quote again. 

Side note there is an audio recording of one of the summer 75 hour long test episodes on youtube for anyone that might be interested. Here is Part 1

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