Members JAS0N47 Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 DAYTIME DEMOS: FEBRUARY 1981: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 DAYTIME DEMOS: FEBRUARY 1982: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TEdgeofNight Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 Fascinating, Jason to see the demos. If I’m reading the Feb 1981 numbers right, Edge of Night, which had less than half of GH’s total viewers, has a higher women 25-54 and 35-64 viewership than GH. And OLTL,AMC and Ryan’s Hope were beating GH in many key demos. This was all during the GH heyday when they were solidly #1 in households. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tybuki Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 Looking at these numbers makes it even more confounding that NBC decided it was a good idea to cancel Blockbusters, Battlestars, and Password Plus (which was doing better numbers than The Doctors) to save Texas. I get the Search For Tomorrow move, but it just equaled bad decisions by NBC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 (edited) @tybuki It bears repeating. NBC was a mess across the board in the early 1980s. Daytime starting showing signs of life in 1983 w/ the start of supercouple Days. Primetime didn't recover until Fall 1984 when The Cosby Show premiered. Edited November 19, 2023 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted November 19, 2023 Members Share Posted November 19, 2023 God rest his soul, but Fred Silverman really destroyed NBC in the late '70's. If not for the success of "The Cosby Show," who knows where that network would be today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TEdgeofNight Posted November 20, 2023 Members Share Posted November 20, 2023 @JAS0N47 Thanks for the demos. I know you’re just posting the books but some numbers don’t make sense and I’m curious how you interpret them. Again, you just post the Nielsen numbers. In May, 1982, I do not believe for a second that Texas was beating GH in the women demos. GH had 3X the audience of Texas. These numbers need some explanation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted November 20, 2023 Members Share Posted November 20, 2023 (I think you mean Feb. 1982, but other than that)...I never really looked much at these pages, but I do see what you are seeing, so it is confusing. I'm not an expert in Nielsen ratings, especially the demos, but I can certainly see why you are confused. I am confused by that comparison too. It says Total Persons watching Texas that week was 1487 and GH 1286, yet GH had a 10 rating and Texas had a 3 rating. So, as for the demos, I am just as confused as you by that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TEdgeofNight Posted November 20, 2023 Members Share Posted November 20, 2023 Thanks again Jason. I know you’re just reporting the numbers and can’t explain them, especially the demos, which are confusing. You’re the best. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted December 28, 2023 Members Share Posted December 28, 2023 The 10/19/87 book has been found! As you expected, 7 of the soaps had PARTIAL preemptions that week. Will post the updated chart next. Replacing these items in the October post with the Nielsen chart below. As discussed earlier this year, VR's post had the original OLTL rating at 7.4. Once the 17-minute Tuesday 5.5 rating was taken out and made a breakout, that got OLTL a point higher to 7.5 for the week. The breakout accounts for the discrepancy between VR's #s and the #s posted in Daytime TV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoldRestless Posted December 28, 2023 Members Share Posted December 28, 2023 Wow! I'm a completist so this makes me very happy. Amazing work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted December 28, 2023 Members Share Posted December 28, 2023 I have updated the preemptions lists on Page 115 of the thread to include the 7 partial preemptions the week of 10/19/87. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted December 31, 2023 Members Share Posted December 31, 2023 @JAS0N47 Do you happen to have ratings for the syndicated shows from the 80s? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted December 31, 2023 Members Share Posted December 31, 2023 Sorry, no, these Nielsen books only cover ABC, CBS, NBC (and eventually FOX) shows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted December 31, 2023 Members Share Posted December 31, 2023 As of September 8, 1986, the only syndicated show that mattered was Oprah. I am 99% sure Oprah clobbered everything from when the show went national until the end of the decade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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