Members robbwolff Posted June 22, 2023 Members Share Posted June 22, 2023 That was the week that April and Draper were reunited at the amusement park. Back in March, Draper had been presumed dead after being involved in a train crash. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 22, 2023 Members Share Posted June 22, 2023 More so that all 4 NBC soaps, DAYS included, took a tumble. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members will81 Posted June 23, 2023 Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 Laemmle was announced in Jan 1980 and as a replacement for Elizabeth Harrower and so there was a delay between Harrower leaving and Nina starting. Maybe when Al Rabin came in, he quickly hired Ruth Brooks Flippen to clean house for him, possibly so Nina could come in with a "clean slate" Would be interesting to know what the deal was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted June 23, 2023 Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 Possibly. Maybe the network or Betty Corday wanted Laemmle but Al Rabin wanted Flippen and they forced her on him. I wish we knew what really happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 23, 2023 Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/1/80-9/5/80 & 9/8/80-9/12/80: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted June 23, 2023 Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 (edited) ATWT the #1 CBS soap and AW still tanking. Edited June 23, 2023 by Soapsuds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted June 23, 2023 Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 September the kids are back in school so there's going to be a drop off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JoeCool Posted June 24, 2023 Members Share Posted June 24, 2023 Summer dropoff for the top 3 shows GH, AMC and OLTL but still strong...nearly 2.0+ higher than Restless, GL and ATWT ABC dominating. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted June 24, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 24, 2023 Re Days and the early 1980 headwriter situation.A possible scenario. All involve agree that the show needs a shakeup , not only a new headwriter but a revamp of the cast. Decisions are made as to who will get the chop. Nina is contracted and wants to work on her new characters and stories, not wanting to spend her first weeks killing off/writing out the axed characters. So Ruth Brooks Flippen is called in and given the assignment of writing out those characters, so Nina can pretty much start fresh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted June 24, 2023 Members Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) February 8, 1980: Eric Braeden debut on Y&R July 22, 1980: Terry Lester (RIP) debut on Y&R. Edited June 24, 2023 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted June 24, 2023 Members Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Seeing GH with a share of 40, 39, and 39 for three weeks is incredible. Once again thank you so much to @JAS0N47your DAYS records are fascinating for all the soaps in these threads. Edited June 24, 2023 by titan1978 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 24, 2023 Members Share Posted June 24, 2023 A note on the ratings. I will be pausing the posts on the ratings for a bit due to time constraints. Look more towards probably August for the regular ratings posts to return. And 1980's ratings fans, as a teaser, you now have a LOT more to look forward to than just the first year (1980) of the decade!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mphs19952003 Posted June 25, 2023 Members Share Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) Seems like it would have made more sense to put SB on at 2 pm and do AW at 3. Same with Texas. AW was getting bad but it still had more to fight with against GH and GL at 3 pm and being sandwiched between DOOL and AW may have helped get more viewers. Even putting DOOL at 12:30 and airing SFT at 1:30 could have helped Texas & SB. Looks like SFT was holding it's own pretty well before going over to NBC. Did Capitol do better or worse for CBS after NBC took SFT? Russ would have been a better choice to go to Texas. He goes to Houston and meets Kevin and Rena and the show can have him commute back and forth for a case, he interacts w/ the folks and stays there eventually. Iris stays on AW. But DB's Russ isn't that charismatic, so who knows? Edited June 25, 2023 by mphs19952003 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted June 25, 2023 Members Share Posted June 25, 2023 The Search for Tomorrow/CBS/P&G situation is weird to me. I'm going by things that have been posted in various threads over the years. P&G was not happy that CBS moved Search for Tomorrow from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm even though the ratings I believe remained stable after the time slot change. CBS had enough of P&G complaining so they cancelled Search for Tomorrow in March 1982 but P&G found a new home for Search for Tomorrow on NBC at 12:30 pm. That move was an epic failure as Search for Tomorrow lost half its audience with the move to NBC since it was head-to-head w/ the first half of Y&R. Capitol went on the air because CBS wanted something more glamorous to compete w/ ABC. It basically inherited the Search for Tomorrow 2:30 pm audience but I don't think Capitol performed any better ratings-wise than Search for Tomorrow did in that time slot. Oddly enough, Search for Tomorrow NBC run ended three months before Capitol ended. IMO Capitol was a placeholder/time-filler until Bill Bell had another show ready for CBS daytime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members will81 Posted July 1, 2023 Members Share Posted July 1, 2023 I wonder how many markets shifted Y&R in Feb 1980. I looked at the Top 10 TV markets and most had already moved the show down an hour starting in April 1979 when CBS' new game Whew began. Those that didn't time shift in April 1979 also kept the show in the same timeslot even after its expansion to an hour. I wonder if this happened in other markets and ultimately how many had to time shift Y&R on Feb 04, 1980. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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