Members pdm1974 Posted October 19, 2019 Members Share Posted October 19, 2019 Good point! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanessaReardon Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Just a reminder that the handwritten month and year is the issue date of Daytime TV. They did not specify which weeks these ratings are for but we can conclude that they are a few months behind. Santa Barbara doesn’t show up until the 1/85 issue. Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 Carla & Sadie from OLTL? So, Tots Sum is AW Rachel & Ada AMC Erica & Mona LOV Ava & ? Aggie had a real serious pattern going on there! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 So, if the January 1985 entry corresponds to (approximately) August 1984, that means that from March 1985 onward, we'll be able to track October 1984 and the effects of the Ryan's Hope/Loving rotation. Look at Y&R pulling ahead there. Related to Victor & Nikki's wedding, I'm guessing. A harbinger of things to come. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 So regarding these monthly 1984 ratings, what month did GL supposedly hit #1 at? Interesting to see ATWT get to #3, I'm guess that must have been Whit McColl's murder and Fulton returning as Lisa. When Bell created B&B, he pretty much made the demand that the show get aired directly aired after Y&R. I wonder if Loving would have been a lot more successful had Nixon asked for the same. As for RH, oddly enough ABC let their #1 affiliate in the nation WPVI have a separate live 11:30 AM feed for RH, perhaps if ABC had just scheduled RH at 11:30 AM ET instead of 12ET it wouldn't have been pre-empited as much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 Please register in order to view this content The Avengers: Patrick McNee died last year. Diana Rigg is still alive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 I'm thinking it would be the entry for Sept. 1984, which I believe corresponds with April 1984. Notice that GL is in second place for the month and within distance of GH. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanessaReardon Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) GL never hit #1 in 1984. That is such a myth. But they did beat GH for 3 weeks. (Y&R was #1 during those 3 weeks) Unfortunately the Daytime TV magazine ratings snapshot missed those 3 weeks that GL beat GH. Edited October 20, 2019 by VanessaReardon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members I Am A Swede Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 Donna, will you please stop posting stuff that is completely irrelevant to the thread which you post it in!! This behaviour is childish! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 Ah, thank you for clearing that up. For whatever reason, I was getting the impression these snapshots were meant to show the monthly average. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 I see what you mean! For the record, I do have the hard copy of SOD from 1998 when doing a profile of GL states specifically that GL hit #1 briefly in 1984. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members robbwolff Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 It’s a long time ago but I want to say it was July 1984. Entertainment Tonight did a story about the ratings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 Oh, yeah, I think so! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanessaReardon Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) Yes, they did. And they said that GL beat GH in the ratings for 3 weeks in a row, not that GL was #1. Edited October 20, 2019 by VanessaReardon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted October 20, 2019 Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) The GOAT wedding was April 1984, and not long after the seeds were planted for the eternal feud and eternal triangle. If Bill Bell didn't get the post-Y&R timeslot for B&B, do you think he would've taken both shows to another network? Apparently during the 1985/1986 season, Mark Goodson demanded that CBS give Bob Eubanks's Card Sharks the pre-The Price is Right timeslot then occupied by Press Your Luck otherwise he'd take both TPiR and Card Sharks to another network so CBS caved as they didn't want to lose their #1 game show (I think TPiR was also CBS's top rated daytime program but I could be wrong). As we all know, Press Your Luck was sent to the 4 pm ET death slot in January 1986 where it remained until it was cancelled that September, thus CBS being the last network to program the 4 pm ET slot. So during the 1980s CBS caved to Mark Goodson and Bill Bell but not to P&G. Imagine if CBS lost TPiR in 1986 and Y&R/B&B in 1987. I would guess their daytime division wouldn't survive past the 1990s. That 11 am-130 pm ET lineup of TPiR/local news/Y&R/B&B played a big part in CBS being the #1 daytime network. Edited October 20, 2019 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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