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I'm gonna say AMC was dead last the week it premiered, with a rating in the 4's or even 3's.

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NIELSEN RATINGS SPOT CHECK: JANUARY 1970:

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22 hours ago, will81 said:

Maybe it was last? I'm wondering now. Maybe my guess was too high. 

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Rating 4.5 / 16% share

You got the rank and share, just off .4 points on the rating.  Great job!! 😃

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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Top 5. This must have been its peak period.

Considering the ATWT lead in, those ratings were understandable.

This is when Irna Phillips departed and the ATWT ratings softened, finally being beaten out of #1 soap spot by GH and DOOL. That led to LIAMST dropping as well.

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1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

NIELSEN RATINGS SPOT CHECK: JANUARY 1970:

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You got the rank and share, just off .4 points on the rating.  Great job!! 😃

Oh nice. Glad I changed my guess 

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Good job, @will81!! :) I thought it would have started off with a higher rating and then dropped off. 
 

Thanks  @jason47 

! It's fun seeing these old ratings :) 

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Early holiday gift for ratings fans....1974 is in!  Will be a bit before charts are ready, so be on the lookout for them!

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1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

Early holiday gift for ratings fans....1974 is in!  Will be a bit before charts are ready, so be on the lookout for them!

Awesome! Happy holidays!

2 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

Early holiday gift for ratings fans....1974 is in!  Will be a bit before charts are ready, so be on the lookout for them!

Amazing news! Totally unexpected! Just like it should be. Dare I say it? A Christmas miracle.

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13 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

Early holiday gift for ratings fans....1974 is in!  Will be a bit before charts are ready, so be on the lookout for them!

Thats wonderful news! Such a great Christmas gift! 😄😄 thank you so much! 

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5/25/25 UPDATE: ADDED IN JANUARY 1974 CHARTS

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/31/73-1/4/74 & 1/7/74-1/11/74:
 
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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/14/74-1/18/74 & 1/21/74-1/25/74:
 
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With the 2024 year-end "Days" research mostly completed now, I will now have some time to start working on the 1974 charts. We pick back up with the weeks of 1/28/74 and 2/4/74 (the last two weeks of Secret Storm, and also two weeks that were both won by Days!)

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/28/74-2/1/74 & 2/4/74-2/8/74:

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49 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

With the 2024 year-end "Days" research mostly completed now, I will now have some time to start working on the 1974 charts. We pick back up with the weeks of 1/28/74 and 2/4/74 (the last two weeks of Secret Storm, and also two weeks that were both won by Days!)

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/28/74-2/1/74 & 2/4/74-2/8/74:

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Great! Thank you for doing all this! :D 

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Even with DOOL #1, Doctors #2 and AW #4 as lead ins How To Survive A Marriage lost 3 rating points. OK it was early days, and it will be interesting to see if there is any upward movement.

Seems like NBC viewers refused to stick around after AW finished. Bright Promise and Return to Peyton Place both failed in that timeslot. NBC must have been hoping for 3rd time lucky.

Was HTSAM just not appealing? Viewers switched to March Game and One Life to Live.

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