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In Feb. during its transition to one hour episodes, it was head to head with AMC from 1-2pm. In June, it shifted to an earlier start time of 12:30, putting it up against the low-rating Doctors at the time and Ryan's Hope which was performing reasonably but not at the height of the rest of the ABC lineup. This half hour lead might have been an advantage to YR.

I would be curious to see what the half hour ratings for YR would be at this time. 

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Y & R always won the 12:30-1PM slot but AMC beat Y and R and DAYS in the 1-130PM slot in June 1981. It was an advantage for Restless. CBS moved Restless to 12:30 to give an advantage so it could beat All My Children and eventually it did. ABC made a mistake in not moving All My Children to 12:30PM and schedule Loving at 1:30-2 in October 1984.

 

Restless destroyed anything in its path at 12:30 EST to 1 PM EST and that has been going on for over 42 years now. 

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Quarterly hour averages for these two weeks:

2/23/81-2/27/81:  1-2PM
AMC...8.1, 8.8, 9.2, 9.2
YR...7.6, 8.0, 8.3, 8.7
DAYS...5.5, 5.7, 6.1, 6.1
 
6/8/81-6/12/81...1230-130PM
RYAN/AMC...6.9, 7.1...8.9, 9.6
YR...7.1, 7.2, 7.4, 7.5
DOC/DAYS...3.7, 3.6...5.5, 5.7

Not Kalbir, but I already had this file open for the above question, so CBS schedule for June 1981 is thIs:

Jeffersons 10-1030

Alice 1030-11
Price Is Right 1 11-1130
Price Is Right 2 1130-12
(Local) 12-1230
YR 1230-130
ATWT 130-230
Search 230-3
GL 3-4
One Day at a Time 4-430
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