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Where The Heart Is was CBS'  12pm soap 68-73 and never drew a large enough following (hence cancellation) I'm sure over that time a number of affiliates dropped that show for local or syndicated product, so Y&R had an uphill battle to get them on board.

Only when it showed strength in other markets, were those affiliates prepared to take it on.

Would it also be the case that local stations may have had some contractual obligations to fill before the could take on Y&R?

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Here's a look at the first weeks that YR hit new clearance records from 90 to 99 percent. It made a big jump one week to the next (skipping over 95; going from 94 to 96 percent).

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FAST WEEKLY WEEK OF 4/22/74-4/26/74 NOT AVAILABLE

(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 4/29/74-5/3/74 & 5/6/74-5/10/74:

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With a 10.8 rating and 35 share of the audience for the AW 10th Anniversary special, I can see why P&G and NBC thought the move to hour episodes was a good idea.

From 1973-75, CBS moved The Price is Right from the morning to compete against AW at 3:00 PM and paired it with Match Game at 3:30.  CBS would eventually move The Price is Right back to the morning time slot and place reruns of All in the Family (the #1 nighttime show) at 3:00 PM to compete with AW.

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1975-1976-1977 NOW POSTED AT JASON47...
 
For a quick look at all of the 1975, 1976 and 1977 ratings charts in this thread, they have now been added to Jason47:
 
 
 
NIELSEN CHECKLIST UPDATE: 1/28/74-12/31/95:
 
2 Weeks Missing (Nielsens & Partial Preemptions info): 4/10/78, 4/17/78.
3 Weeks Missing (Partial Preemptions info; ratings via DaytimeTV & Soap Opera Weekly): 12/14/87, 5/20/91, 5/27/91.
 
Fast Weekly weeks (21 weeks) (ratings not counted towards yearly averages by Nielsen these weeks/missing prelim ratings & preemption info): 4/22/74, 6/24/74, 8/26/74, 12/23/74, 4/21/75, 6/23/75, 8/25/75, 4/19/76, 6/21/76, 8/23/76, 12/20/76, 4/18/77, 6/20/77, 8/22/77, 12/19/77, 3/20/78, 4/24/78, 6/26/78, 8/28/78, 12/25/78, 8/24/81.
 
Note: Prior to September 1973, Nielsen did not report any ratings for four weeks a year, which were known as "black weeks."
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Thank you for confirming those, We now have almost every pre-emption. I know some of the late 1973 ratings are missing, so there will be a couple we can't confirm but so exciting to have almost all of them for Y&R

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