On 6/19/2023 at 1:04 PM, JAS0N47 said:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/15/79-1/19/79 & 1/22/79-1/26/79:

 

Why do DAYS & AW have over 200 stations? 209, 206, 205, etc. 

Edited July 20, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges

One Life to Live was carried by more stations than All My Children and General Hospital?

 

The Dayton Ohio affiliate aired Woody Woodpecker instead of GH

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Why do DAYS & AW have over 200 stations? 209, 206, 205, etc. 

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

1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

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

Okay, thnx. I just had it in my head that there were 200 markets & everybody attempted to be in each market. 

1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

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

That must be the case.

Wonder why no shows were carried 100%? I remember a SOD article that stated that Days now had total clearance ie airing on all NBC stations. Not sure when that was. Maybe late 80's?

Also puzzled as to why the no. of stations changed by 1 or 2 week to wek?

3 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

That must be the case.

Wonder why no shows were carried 100%? I remember a SOD article that stated that Days now had total clearance ie airing on all NBC stations. Not sure when that was. Maybe late 80's?

Also puzzled as to why the no. of stations changed by 1 or 2 week to wek?

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! 

20 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Okay, thnx. I just had it in my head that there were 200 markets & everybody attempted to be in each market. 

There are some markets with small to medium sized cities that just had one station.  The town I grew up in had 1 station that was an NBC affiliate.

 

I’m thinking NBC had more small markets than the other 2

1 hour ago, TVFAN1144 said:

There are some markets with small to medium sized cities that just had one station.  The town I grew up in had 1 station that was an NBC affiliate.

 

I’m thinking NBC had more small markets than the other 2

Yes, thank you for the illustration. I get it now. I just thought D'oh 200 markets, okay. Then, there's a subset of that, an elite 25 or something, always aware of Seattle & it dropping AW when it did. Probably not 25. 

If anyone wants market and affiliates Broadcasting did a tv year book for many years and listed all markets and each affiliation

https://worldradiohistory.com/Broadcasting-Yearbook.htm

15 hours ago, will81 said:

If anyone wants market and affiliates Broadcasting did a tv year book for many years and listed all markets and each affiliation

https://worldradiohistory.com/Broadcasting-Yearbook.htm

TYVM! I'll take a look. 

Just doubling back to say what an excellent resource this is! Thanks again. 

https://worldradiohistory.com/Broadcasting-Yearbook.htm

Edited July 22, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges
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Finished sorting & cropping the remainder of 1979, so they will start being posted again today. We pick up with the week of 8/13/79:

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/13/79-8/17/79 & 8/20/79-8/24/79:

 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS (FAST NATIONALS): WEEK OF 8/27/79-8/31/79:

 

 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/3/79-9/7/79 & 9/10/79-9/14/79:

 

At this point in the ratings, AW was six months into the 90 minute episodes.  The Doctors ratings were almost identical to AW’s ratings.  Did it ever occur to anyone at NBC to just expand The Doctors to an hour rather than take the risk with Texas in 1980?

1 hour ago, watson71 said:

At this point in the ratings, AW was six months into the 90 minute episodes.  The Doctors ratings were almost identical to AW’s ratings.  Did it ever occur to anyone at NBC to just expand The Doctors to an hour rather than take the risk with Texas in 1980?

Lin Bolen did a trial run of a 60 min. DOC. Some of us have wondered out loud why they did not pursue it. Speculated they didn't have room & would've needed more room. Speculated maybe something different with the sponsor. But, that spec is only educated  guesses. Simply unknown. 

And, whether they discussed it and TEXAS in the same moment, also totally unknown. 

Edited July 27, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges

On 7/20/2023 at 10:11 PM, Paul Raven said:

onder why no shows were carried 100%? I remember a SOD article that stated that Days now had total clearance ie airing on all NBC stations. Not sure when that was. Maybe late 80's?

Also puzzled as to why the no. of stations changed by 1 or 2 week to wek?

Yeah, 98% & 99% but not 100. And, at times weekly variation. Just curious.