Members Paul Raven Posted October 10, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 10, 2022 NBC was a mess in the early 80's. In July 1980 they averaged a 5.0/20 over the previous 14 weeks compared to ABC 7.5/29 and CBS 6.5/26 In its debut week NBC's David Letterman 90 min morning show had a 2.6/13 compared to a 3.6/18 for the 3 gameshows it replaced. NBC obviously hoped it would build but that never happened. The week of Letterman's debut NBC could only manage a 4.5/18 daytime rating. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted October 10, 2022 Members Share Posted October 10, 2022 NBC was a mess in both daytime and primetime back then. As we all know, NBC didn't recover in primetime until the breakout success of The Cosby Show, but NBC remained a mess in daytime despite supercouple-era Days getting alot of hype in the soap press. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted October 10, 2022 Members Share Posted October 10, 2022 Can someone fill me on Regis's NBC show? I recall watching the premiere because my family were big Regis fans from his local morning show AM LA (Los Angeles) But, I was looking at 1982 ratings and saw that the show was listed as 30 minutes. Did NBC reduce the show from 60 to 30 minutes, or was it always 60 and I was mistaken? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 11, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 11, 2022 Regis' NBC show was always 30 min .It ran from Nov 30 1981 to April 9 1982. His LA show was an hour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 14, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 14, 2022 8th annual Daytime Emmy Awards ABC May 21 1981 2 hr ceremony 12.8/44 1980 on NBC for 90 min 6.6/24 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 15, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 15, 2022 Week of Aug 3-7 1981. ABC 10.0/34 its highest ever daytime rating for the 11.00-4.30 time period CBS 6.8/24 NBC 4.0/14 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 16, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2022 4th quarter 1981 9/28/81-12/13/81 1. GH 11.8/39 2. OLTL 9.8/35 3. AMC 9.6/35 4. GL 7.7/25 5. RH 7.0/28 6. Y&R 7.0/28 7. ATWT 6.8/25 8. SFT 6.3/23 9. EON 5.0/16 10. DOOL 5.0/18 11. AW 4.4/16 12. TX 3.4/11 13 TD 3.2/13 Total viewers ABC 9.73 million CBS 7.13 million NBC 4.31 million Women 18-49 ABC 4.65 million CBS 2.33 million NBC 1.6 million 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Broderick Posted October 16, 2022 Members Share Posted October 16, 2022 Crazy how close together Edge of Night & Days of Our Lives were in 1981 in the ratings. A few years later, Edge was cancelled, and by the late 1990s (?) Days was hovering around right behind Y&R and B&B near the top. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 16, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2022 And Edge's ratings were all the more remarkable in that it had way less affiliate clearance - either rescheduled or not shown at all. Days had clearances in the high 90 % range. Imagine if ABC and P&G had really gotten behind EON. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webmaster Errol Posted October 16, 2022 Webmaster Share Posted October 16, 2022 When referencing ratings, I think we should be careful in distinguishing Household rating vs demo rating. When I see 5.0 and above used to reference the 1980s figures for some shows, I immediately think it’s households but in reality it is Adults 18-49. But that’s not stated. Just a thought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 16, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2022 Those 1981 ratings are from Variety and are household ratings, hence the separate reference to W18-49. Although that was the desirable cohort, at that time primetime and daytime ratings were all reported in terms of households. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 25, 2022 Author Members Share Posted November 25, 2022 Don't think these have been posted but with 32 pages... May 82 1. General Hospital 9.4/35 2. All My Children 8.3/32 3, One Life to Live 7.3/32 4. The Price is Right 6.5/35 5. Guiding Light 6.5/24 6. The Young and the Restless 6.0/27 7. As The World Turns 5.9/23 8. Family Feud 5.8/279. 9. Ryan's Hope 5.8/26 10. Days Of Our Lives 5.4/21 11. Love Boat 4.9/26 12. Capitol 4.5/19 13. Edge of Night 4.5/16 14. Alice 4.3/25 15 Another World 4.0/19 16. One Day At A Time 3.1/17 17. Wheel of Fortune 2.9/16 18. Search for Tomorrow 2.9/13 19. Tattletales 2.8/10 20. Texas 2.2/12 21. The Doctors 1.8/8 22. Diff'rent Strokes 1.7/10 Diff'rent Strokes triple its ratings over the next few months due to kids tuning in during vacation, so not really solving NBC's ratings issues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted December 21, 2022 Author Members Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) Not a good omen for ABC....the week Loving debuted in 83 was the first time since April 1979 that CBS won the daytime ratings. Edited December 21, 2022 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted February 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted February 13, 2023 Week of July 24-28 83 NBCs most competitive week since April 78 ABC/CBS tied with 6.7 NBC 5.5 It's best rating best since June 81 Top 2 NBC shows Wheel of Fortune 7.2/30 Days of Our Lives 6.4/20 General Hospital #1 that week - 9.8/32 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted February 23, 2023 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2023 Week ending August 1 1982 For the first time in 3 years,GH did not top the weekly ratings. 1. AMC 10.2/33 2. GH 9.6/33 3. OLTL 8.5/30 4. Love Boat 5. TPIR 6. Y&R 7.7/29 7. ATWT 7.2/24 8. TPIR 2 9.GL 7.0/24 10. Family Feud 11.Alice 12.DOOL 13. RH 14. CAP 15. Wheel of Fortune 16. AW 17. ? 18.? 19.? 17/18/19 Not reported but Diffrent Strokes, One Day At A Time and Tattletales were airing at that time and would have been in those positions. 20. EON 21. SFT 22. TX 23.TD Chips reruns were airing on NBC 3-4pm at this time but I have never seen it mentioned in ratings reports at that time for some reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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