1 minute ago, JAS0N47 said:

 

Pretty similar for both weeks:

 

Tom Hughes Marries Margo Montgomery. (June 1, 1983)
Week of 5/30/83-6/3/83: ATWT 7.8/25; 6,500,000

 

Steve Andropolous Marries Betsy Stewart. (May 31, 1984)

Week of 5/28/84-6/1/84; ATWT 7.8/26; 6,540,000

Thank You!

What was the ranking for ATWT for those two weeks?

Thank-you, Jason.

So can the "20 Million viewers" finally be debunked?

Who the hell started that falsehood, anyhow?

It never made sense, given ATWT's yearly average for the time.

And while Steve & Betsy may have been a popular couple for the show, they weren't a phenomenon (which would warrent a viewing figure as strong as 20 Million).

Weird.

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by Pine Charles

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Thank You!

What was the ranking for ATWT for those two weeks?

They don't provide the ranking. I don't have time to look through all the soaps and figure it out, so once I compile that week's ratings, they get sorted in the Excel chart by rating, which creates the ranking, and gets posted here.

@JAS0N47 If you don't mind my asking, could you please post Y&R rating for the week of April 9-13, 1984? Thank you.

5 hours ago, Pine Charles said:

Who the hell started that falsehood, anyhow?

Blame a couple inaccurate soap books back in the the 1980’s. In the cases of GL hitting #1 in 1984 and ATWT having 20 million viewers I know SOD republished those “factoids” a number of times in the late 90s and early 2000’s hence perpetuating the myths as facts for years. 

3 hours ago, kalbir said:

@JAS0N47 If you don't mind my asking, could you please post Y&R rating for the week of April 9-13, 1984? Thank you.

7.9/31.

Thanks again @JAS0N47 . 

The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87. Now we know why I never had any preemptions listed for "Days."  Only "Days" and AMC were untouched by the hearings, since they were usually on a lunch break from 1PM-2PM.

 

In order to make the chart read-able, I had to split the YR preemption data into a second line.

 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

 

IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

Edited July 18, 20232 yr by JAS0N47

13 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87. Now we know why I never had any preemptions listed for "Days."  Only "Days" and AMC were untouched by the hearings, since they were usually on a lunch break from 1PM-2PM.

 

In order to make the chart read-able, I had to split the YR preemption data into a second line.

 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

 

IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

That's so incredible!!  This info that haunted most of us for years and now we know most of it!! You are a true gift from heaven my friend!! 

I hope you will be able to get the week of July 6-10, 1987 at some point!  

20 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

That's so incredible!!  This info that haunted most of us for years and now we know most of it!! You are a true gift from heaven my friend!! 

I hope you will be able to get the week of July 6-10, 1987 at some point!  

I have everything from July 1979-September 1987 except for 1 week in 1981, so it's all there now in my files. I had a little time to figure these two weeks out, so I posted it tonight. The rest of the weekly info will be coming!

2 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

I have everything from July 1979-September 1987 except for 1 week in 1981, so it's all there now in my files. I had a little time to figure these two weeks out, so I posted it tonight. The rest of the weekly info will be coming!

Can't wait!!  thank you so much again!! 

2 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87.

Wow, this is amazing. You should be knighted 🤗

9 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

The Nielsen data below now confirms all of the Iran Contra Hearings preemptions for the weeks of 7/13/87 and 7/20/87. Now we know why I never had any preemptions listed for "Days."  Only "Days" and AMC were untouched by the hearings, since they were usually on a lunch break from 1PM-2PM.

 

In order to make the chart read-able, I had to split the YR preemption data into a second line.

 

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

 

IRAN CONTRA HEARINGS BROADCASTS: WEEKS OF 7/13/87-7/17/87 & 7/20/87-7/24/87:

 

Thank you! Definitely the one I've been waiting for. After all these years, to see that the shows were preempted by... Card Sharks?!? Price is Right?! 25,000 Pyramid?! I get it, it's easier to broadcast that stuff when the hearings keep interrupting things, but it's so not what I ever expected!

 

8 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

That's so incredible!!  This info that haunted most of us for years and now we know most of it!! You are a true gift from heaven my friend!! 

I hope you will be able to get the week of July 6-10, 1987 at some point!  

If it helps, I had saved a couple of posts from this thread in the past. On page 23, user @VanessaReardon posts that Y&R only aired Monday that week. And on page 24, notes no preemptions for any show the week ending 8/7/1987. This is based on the weekly ratings info, so I'll be happy to get confirmation when Jason posts the day by day ratings, but this gets us very close!

 

1 hour ago, BoldRestless said:

Thank you! Definitely the one I've been waiting for. After all these years, to see that the shows were preempted by... Card Sharks?!? Price is Right?! 25,000 Pyramid?! I get it, it's easier to broadcast that stuff when the hearings keep interrupting things, but it's so not what I ever expected!

 

If it helps, I had saved a couple of posts from this thread in the past. On page 23, user @VanessaReardon posts that Y&R only aired Monday that week. And on page 24, notes no preemptions for any show the week ending 8/7/1987. This is based on the weekly ratings info, so I'll be happy to get confirmation when Jason posts the day by day ratings, but this gets us very close!

 

Thanks! I never knew about that page!!  so that does confirm Y&R only aired Monday. 
 

we would need July 27-31 1987 and possibly August 3-7 1987 to get the rest of the data.

6 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Thank you! Definitely the one I've been waiting for. After all these years, to see that the shows were preempted by... Card Sharks?!? Price is Right?! 25,000 Pyramid?! I get it, it's easier to broadcast that stuff when the hearings keep interrupting things, but it's so not what I ever expected!

They probably decided to do that since those shows would have only aired in the Eastern & Central time zones. The hearings were on from 2-5PM, so that would have preempted both YR & BB in the Mountain & Pacific time zones, where the hearings were aired from 11AM-2PM.