Ratings from the 80's

[kalbir]

This week in real life San Francisco earthquake, Galileo launch, communism was coming to an end in Hungary, Erich Honecker resigned as leader of East Germany.

@Soapsuds I think around this time was As the World Turns Martha Byrne departure.

This week in real life fall of the Berlin Wall.

Edited November 12, 2023 by kalbir

[JAS0N47]

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/13/89-11/17/89 & 11/20/89-11/24/89:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/27/89-12/1/89 & 12/4/89-12/8/89:

[kalbir]

Y&R November 27, 1989 Peter Bergman debut.

This week in real life communism was coming to an end in Czechoslovakia.

@Soapsuds I think December 1989 was a big cast change month for As the World Turns w/ Hillary Bailey Smith departure and debuts of Mary Ellen Stuart, Ellen Dolan, and Heather Rattray.

Edited November 12, 2023 by kalbir

[JAS0N47]

TWO BIG NIELSEN RATINGS EVENTS HAPPENING IN THE NEXT TWO DAYS!

Tomorrow, I will be posting the last weeks of 1989, which completes the entire decade!

On Tuesday, the week of 1/8/90 will be posted, which is the last week that Soap Opera Weekly did not publish. So, as of Tuesday, every week of Nielsen ratings from 1979-Present will be available online (except the week of 8/24/81)!

 

[BoldRestless]

Congratulations! It's a huge accomplishment getting all this together.

[Manny]

Great job, Jason!! Thank you for sharing all of this with us!!

[JAS0N47]

Thanks for the compliments! It's been a fun journey!!

I am wrapping up the 1992 books in the next few days, so I should have time this week to help out with any specific 1980's requests this week. If there's a certain week from the 1980's or early 1990's that you would like the demos of a show posted, please let me know. 

[BoldRestless]

Are there 1979-1989 lists for all the shows? I found the 1978 lists, and the 1990-1999 lists, but I've lost track of these! I've gone through 10 pages of this thread and only found AMC 79-89 and B&B 87-89.

[JAS0N47]

I didn't convert those yet (I did for DAYS, AMC and BB), the rest are still in the "confusing" format I originally posted them in. But the full lists for 1979-1989 are in this thread, just not as "clean" as the lists now are for DAYS, AMC and BB.

[BoldRestless]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything! 

[YRfan23]

I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve done my friend!!

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[JAS0N47]

WEEKDAY DAYTIME TV SPECIALS (8/31/81-11/22/81):

 

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WEEKDAY DAYTIME TV SPECIALS (11/23/81-1/10/82):

 

 

[tybuki]

I was interested in the non-soaps sweeps period lists you were posting, if you could continue those. Thank you in advance!

[JAS0N47]

I'll get to those eventually. I'm working on the daytime specials for 1982-1991 now.  The demos are easier to post since it's just a quick post of an image. The lists you want require more time to compile, so those will get done eventually.

[Khan]

Thanks, @JAS0N47, for everything you've done and are doing to compile these stats for us.  It's cleared up many misconceptions we've held about the ratings about this-or-that show.