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PREEMPTION DATA CONFIRMED FOR THE TWO "MISSING WEEKS" IN 1991...ALL PREEMPTION DATA TO BE AVAILABLE FOR JANUARY 1979-MAY 1992 (except one week in 1981)

Santa Barbara had one preemption during the two consecutive "missing weeks" of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91. A quick check of newspapers confirms that SB was preempted on 5/27/91 for NBA Playoffs. So, with that, we have the full preemption data for all soaps from January 1979-May 1992 (missing just the week of 8/24/81).

Exact data on PARTIAL preemptions will not be available for the fast weekly weeks (4 per year) from 1979-1987, but all FULL preemptions will now be known for soap history fans!

Telecasts (should all be 15 more telecasts if no preemptions during the weeks of 5/20/91, 5/27/91, 6/3/91)
As of 5/17/91-6/7/91
AMC 159-174
AW 159-174
ATWT 165-180
BB 164-179
DAYS 158-173
GH 161-176
GL 160-175
LOV 161-176
OLTL 160-175
SB 157-171  (1 preemption during the two missing weeks of 5/20/91 and 5/27/91)
YR 168-183

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You're in luck, since there was some overlap at the beginning of September 1987. There's a few weeks where they issued books with the old numbers, but also issued books with the new numbers, and the results are quite different between the two. I was only going to post the "official" numbers when it came time for that, but since you asked, I will post both sets of numbers: the old system vs. the new system, so your questions will be answered then once we get to September 1987.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/11/87-5/15/87 & 5/18/87-5/22/87:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 5/25/87-5/29/87 & 6/1/87-6/5/87:

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The primetime charts for the 1960's and 1970's are arriving much quicker than the daytime charts, so if you have any interest or want a specific soap or other primetime show posted from those decades, check out the appropriate thread (I posted once in the '60s daytime thread, but I also posted in the primetime soaps thread, so I guess that would be the more appropriate place for this discussion). 

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ATWT numbers will start to trend upwards again with Lily's true parentage being revealed and Craig and Betsy's airplane crashing. It reaches #2 while the other soaps numbers fall.

GL continues to struggle.

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Bold getting Capitol numbers was bad. ATWT numbers in that timeslot were much higher. CBS gave BB tons of time to gain viewership and iMO hurt ATWT and GL /entire CBS lineup.

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Yeah, you notice almost instantly ATWT suffers from having B&B as its lead-in as opposed to Y&R. While I recognize there's a major drop-off in everyone's ratings, its impact on ATWT would likely have been lesser had they remained at 1:30, considering their ranking pre-vs. post B&B.

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