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Yes, that was the original plan. The only reason I pointed it out is that the football game aired for only 17 minutes of GL's 1-hour time slot. So the other 43 minutes, the majority of GL's preemption was actually just a black/blank screen.

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12/25/80
Search/YR/ATWT- NBA on CBS (1230PM, 152 minutes)
GL- NBA on CBS & Blue-Gray Football Game (302PM, 185 minutes)
 
12/25/81
Search/YR/ATWT- Blue-Gray Football Game  (1230PM, 207 minutes)
GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (357PM, 125 minutes)
 
12/25/84
YR/ATWT/Capitol- Blue-Gray Football Game (1230PM, 199 minutes)
GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (349PM, 148 minutes)
 
12/25/85
YR/ATWT/Capitol- Blue-Gray Football Game (12PM, 210 minutes)
GL- Blue-Gray Football Game & NBA on CBS (330PM, 180 minutes)
 
12/25/86
YR/ATWT- NBA on CBS (12PM, 157 minutes)
Capitol- NBA on CBS & John Hancock Sun Bowl (237PM, 203 minutes)
GL- John Hancock Sun Bowl
 
Records go through November 1987
 
12/25/87
TBA
 
12/25/89
TBA
 
Memorial Day 1985- 5/27/85
YR/ATWT/Capitol- all aired
GL- NBA Championship Game 1 (3PM, 148 minutes)
 
Memorial Day 1986- 5/26/86
YR/ATWT/Capitol- all aired
GL- NBA Championship Game 1 (3PM, 150 minutes)
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Sure, Will check now. I have some time this week & next week, so this would be the weeks to ask about stuff. Will be pretty busy again as we head into August. 

Work is being done at times on the weekly charts, so ratings fans, fear not!  At the moment, I want to mainly get all of the charts from 1981-1987 typed up. It's easier if I don't sort them/crop them after I do each one, so I will probably wait until they are all typed up before I go back and start sorting/cropping them, but that process is much quicker than typing them up. I already have a lot of 1982-1984 typed up, so the charts will be coming. Just have to be a little patient.

In the meantime, if you have any non-soap questions about daytime (game shows, sitcom reruns, etc...) or Saturday morning shows from 1980-1987, let me know.

 
I did a spot check each month for you:
 
Chips M-F is the title Nielsen lists it as:
 
4/26/82-4/30/82: 3.4/12; 161 affs/87 clearance; Quarterly hours: 2.9/3.1/3.6/4.1
5/3/82-5/7/82: 3.2/12; 162 affs/88 clearance; Quarterly hours: 2.9/3.0/3.4/3.6
 
5/24/82-5/28/82: 3.8/14; 164 affs/88 clearance
5/31/82-6/4/82: 3.6/12; 162 affs/88 clearance
 
6/28/82-7/2/82: 3.9/13; 160 affs/87 clearance; Preempted Friday for Wimbledon Men's Semifinal
7/5/82-7/9/82: 4.2/15; 157 affs/87 clearance
 
7/26/82-7/30/82: 4.5/15; 158 affs/86 clearance
8/2/82-8/6/82: 4.4/15; 159 affs/87 clearance
 
8/30/82-9/3/82: 4.5/16; 158 affs/86 clearance; Quarterly hours: 4.0/4.2/4.8/5.2
9/6/82-9/10/82: 4.4/16; 153 affs/84 clearance; Quarterly hours: 3.9/4.2/4.6/4.8 (Wed episode- 3-326 & 343-4PM; 43 minutes)
 
Final Nielsen Average: 89 Telecasts; 4.0/14; 3,330,000 viewers
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Thanks so much. Chips ratings went up when kids got out of school. The clearances were not great but a 4.4/15 was better than Texas was doing and what Santa Barbara would achieve a couple of years later.

I'm sure that the cost of Chips reruns was a lot less than a daily 60 min soap but the demos were probably too skewed towards kids/teen males etc so NBC was not making the $$$ in advertising.

I wonder how things would have gone had NBC replayed Flamingo Road at 3pm for some of that time?

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Full Demos aren't listed much in summer, and no seasonal averages for them either in summer.

But here are the last Full Demos (a 2-week average for the weeks of 7/12/82 & 7/19/82):
 
Chips M-F:
 
Total Persons: 1500
 
Lady of House: 459
Working Woman: 85
Total Women: 559
18-34: 184
18-49: 304
25-54: 228
35-64: 239
55+: 246
 
Total Men: 291
18-34: 135
18-49: 149
25-54: 104
35-64: 86
55+: 124
 
Total Teens (12-17): 320
Teen Girls: 146
 
Total Children (2-11): 330
6-11: 267
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Thanks Jason.

Can I ask about the week of Jan 3 1983 when NBC debuted a new morning lineup

10 am Facts of Life

10.30 Sale of the Century

11.00 Wheel of Fortune

11.30 Hit Man

12.00 Just Men

How did the shows fare compared to CBS and ABC competition?

Also in comparison to the previous week when NBC aired Texas and The Doctors at 11 am and 12 midday.

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Those will be coming once I finish compiling the weekly charts. It takes time to do each one. First you have to type out the ratings, then go to another section to get the preemption dates. Then go to another section and figure out what preempted the show. So, while I can't do that list today, you will soon have the weekly charts listing the preemption data for all the soaps from 1980-1987. Those will be ready to be posted sometime later this year. So your gaps will be filled before 2023 ends!

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The ratings took a big drop over those 2 weeks. guess Xmas/NY was amajor factor.

The NBC changes brought immediate improvement. So sad to see that final TD rating, the lowest soap rating since Best of Everything way back in 1970 I believe. Just Men was no blockbuster but brought in better ratings than TD and I'm sure NBC hoped it would build. Wheel of Fortune/Hit Man did better than TX.

In fact, this was the beginning of NBC daytime showing some life in 83 as they tweaked the game shows (adding Dream House for Hit Man) and began to show solid improvement, helped by the fact that Loving was a ratings dud.

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