On 2/17/2024 at 5:50 PM, Paul Raven said:

I think it was just a way to get rid of Love of Life and blame the ratings.

Clearly a tank job.

On 2/18/2024 at 2:50 AM, Paul Raven said:

So then to drop Match Game for Love of Life seemed odd. LOL had played in the morning for years and expecting viewers to find it in the afternoon was a big ask.

Just like I've pointed out that it was a mistake to place younger-skewing soaps like The City and Sunset Beach in the noon, moving Love of Life was also dumb. It very much gives off the vibe of your "grandmother's" soap and was probably a good fit for the earlier time slot when those viewers are at home. Expecting those kids, students and younger people that might come home in the afternoon to suddenly start watching Love of Life was idiotic, but then again...

 

On 2/18/2024 at 2:50 AM, Paul Raven said:

I think it was just a way to get rid of Love of Life and blame the ratings.

... it was probably this. They could get rid of a somewhat middling performer by making it tank in the late afternoon by appearing to give it a shot as it was just a win-win situation for them here; either it bombs and they're rid of it, or it performs unexpectedly well and fixes a late afternoon slot for them.

Welcome back, ratings fans!  1976 is now in.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/29/75-1/2/76 & 1/5/76-1/9/76:

 

 

Edited May 26, 20241 yr by JAS0N47

3 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

Welcome back, ratings fans!  1976 is now in.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/29/75-1/2/76

Wow, Y&R at #1 and its not even three years into its run. I wonder if this was Y&R's first #1 week.

So far in this thread 1977-1979 ratings are complete IIRC.

How the network schedules (ET) were in January 1976, starting w/ soaps until the end of the day.

CBS: 11:30 am Love of Life, Noon Y&R, 12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow, 1 pm Local programming, 1:30 pm As the World Turns, 2:30 pm Guiding Light, 3 pm All in the Family reruns, 3:30 pm Match Game, 4 pm Tattletales

ABC: 12:30 pm All My Children, 1 pm Ryan's Hope, 1:30 pm Rhyme and Reason, 2 pm $10000 Pyramid, 2:30 pm The Neighbors, 3 pm General Hospital, 3:30 pm One Life to Live, 4 pm The Edge of Night

NBC: 1:30 pm Days, 2:30 pm The Doctors, 3 pm Another World, 4 pm Somerset

The soap time slot rivalries were

Search for Tomorrow vs. All My Children

As the World Turns vs. Days

Guiding Light vs. The Doctors

General Hospital/One Life to Live vs. Another World

The Edge of Night vs. Somerset

Edited May 26, 20241 yr by kalbir

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

So far in this thread 1977-1979 ratings are complete IIRC.

January 1977-March 1977 are not in at the moment, so hopefully those will be coming later this year. So, we now have weekly ratings for January 1976-December 1976 and April 1977-Present.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/12/76-1/16/76 & 1/19/76-1/23/76:

@JAS0N47 Thank you for the additional information re 1977.

Surprised to see Ryan's Hope at the bottom. I thought it was doing much better.

I think the demos for W 18-34 were much higher.

@Paul Raven January 1976, Ryan's Hope was only 6 months into its run.

@kalbir Yes but I thought it was stronger from the get go.

TD, EON, GH, LOL, OLTL, RH and SOM appear to be firmly in the middle or bottom of the pack, while the rest of the shows are in a near-constant state of flux.

OMG thank you so much again! @JAS0N47!  been looking forward to this!

You said 1973-1975 will be coming at some point too right? 

3 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

OMG thank you so much again! @JAS0N47!  been looking forward to this!

You said 1973-1975 will be coming at some point too right? 

I can never say for certain until the info arrives, but that is the plan. I also recently got 1994-1995, so those charts will be going up at some point once I get them all done. You already have the OJ Simpson preemption data, but this will be the first time it appears in chart form like all of 1976-1993.

11 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

I can never say for certain until the info arrives, but that is the plan. I also recently got 1994-1995, so those charts will be going up at some point once I get them all done. You already have the OJ Simpson preemption data, but this will be the first time it appears in chart form like all of 1976-1993.

That’s great!  it will be nice to see all that info in chart form! Thanks so much again for all you have done!

Thank you as always, Jason!!