Members Soapsuds Posted July 11, 2023 Members Share Posted July 11, 2023 Thank You! What was the ranking for ATWT for those two weeks? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted July 11, 2023 Members Share Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) Thank-you, Jason. So can the "20 Million viewers" finally be debunked? Who the hell started that falsehood, anyhow? It never made sense, given ATWT's yearly average for the time. And while Steve & Betsy may have been a popular couple for the show, they weren't a phenomenon (which would warrent a viewing figure as strong as 20 Million). Weird. Edited July 11, 2023 by Pine Charles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 11, 2023 Members Share Posted July 11, 2023 They don't provide the ranking. I don't have time to look through all the soaps and figure it out, so once I compile that week's ratings, they get sorted in the Excel chart by rating, which creates the ranking, and gets posted here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted July 11, 2023 Members Share Posted July 11, 2023 @JAS0N47 If you don't mind my asking, could you please post Y&R rating for the week of April 9-13, 1984? Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted July 12, 2023 Members Share Posted July 12, 2023 Blame a couple inaccurate soap books back in the the 1980’s. In the cases of GL hitting #1 in 1984 and ATWT having 20 million viewers I know SOD republished those “factoids” a number of times in the late 90s and early 2000’s hence perpetuating the myths as facts for years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 12, 2023 Members Share Posted July 12, 2023 7.9/31. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted July 12, 2023 Members Share Posted July 12, 2023 Thanks again @JAS0N47 . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87. Now we know why I never had any preemptions listed for "Days." Only "Days" and AMC were untouched by the hearings, since they were usually on a lunch break from 1PM-2PM. In order to make the chart read-able, I had to split the YR preemption data into a second line. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87: Please register in order to view this content IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87: Edited July 18, 2023 by JAS0N47 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 That's so incredible!! This info that haunted most of us for years and now we know most of it!! You are a true gift from heaven my friend!! I hope you will be able to get the week of July 6-10, 1987 at some point! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 I have everything from July 1979-September 1987 except for 1 week in 1981, so it's all there now in my files. I had a little time to figure these two weeks out, so I posted it tonight. The rest of the weekly info will be coming! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 Can't wait!! Please register in order to view this content thank you so much again!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 Wow, this is amazing. You should be knighted Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoldRestless Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 Thank you! Definitely the one I've been waiting for. After all these years, to see that the shows were preempted by... Card Sharks?!? Price is Right?! 25,000 Pyramid?! I get it, it's easier to broadcast that stuff when the hearings keep interrupting things, but it's so not what I ever expected! If it helps, I had saved a couple of posts from this thread in the past. On page 23, user @VanessaReardon posts that Y&R only aired Monday that week. And on page 24, notes no preemptions for any show the week ending 8/7/1987. This is based on the weekly ratings info, so I'll be happy to get confirmation when Jason posts the day by day ratings, but this gets us very close! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 Thanks! I never knew about that page!! Please register in order to view this content so that does confirm Y&R only aired Monday. we would need July 27-31 1987 and possibly August 3-7 1987 to get the rest of the data. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 17, 2023 Members Share Posted July 17, 2023 They probably decided to do that since those shows would have only aired in the Eastern & Central time zones. The hearings were on from 2-5PM, so that would have preempted both YR & BB in the Mountain & Pacific time zones, where the hearings were aired from 11AM-2PM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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