Ratings From the 90's

[Paul Raven]

Days had a very specific vibe happening at that time and AW was a completely different type of show. Had AW been able to come up with a hot story or couple, they might have attracted some Days viewers. Also, by that time Days had been outrating AW for years so viewers were conditioned to switching off.

[1974mdp]

I wonder what would have happened if NBC had fallen through on one of those proposed DAYS spin-offs when the show was red hot during that time and scheduled it right after DAYS and bumping AW to the slot Sunset Beach eventually got.

[JAS0N47]

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/12/94-9/16/94 & 9/19/94-9/23/94:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 9/26/94-9/30/94 & 10/3/94-10/7/94:

 

[kalbir]

Y&R this week: Nina has a miscarriage.

B&B this week: Ridge and Brooke get married. We saw this episode during the classics, and it had been rebroadcast twice before.

Fall 1994 B&B rebounds from the lull it was in since the Catalina Island crossover ended. All of Bradley's storylines are going to culminate during the first half of 1995.

[JAS0N47]

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/10/94-10/14/94 & 10/17/94-10/21/94:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 10/24/94-10/28/94 & 10/31/94-11/4/94:

Edited June 17, 2024 by JAS0N47

[kalbir]

Y&R this week: Michelle Stafford debut.

[JAS0N47]

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/7/94-11/11/94 & 11/14/94-11/18/94:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 11/21/94-11/25/94 & 11/28/94-12/2/94:

[I Am A Swede]

Very odd fluctuations for GH those last three weeks.... From 6.2 down to 5.1 and then back up to 6.2, and down in stations from 222 to 213 and then back up to 222.

What happened the week of 11/21-11/25?

[JAS0N47]

Most holidays like Labor Day and Thanksgiving Day have a lot of local preemptions, so networks usually list those episodes as "breakouts", which don't count toward the weekly ratings average, since they don't air on the usual (in GH's case, 222) amount of affiliates. For some reason, ABC didn't list the smaller than usual affiliates for the Thanksgiving episode as a breakout, so that brought down the weekly number average for everything (# of affiliates, rating, etc). 

College Football aired on ABC on Thursday from 11AM-248PM Eastern, followed by a 12-minute Loving. So, best guess is there were some affiliates who usually aired GH at an earlier time, and some that aired a local parade or something in GH's place, and those were the ones who preempted GH that day.

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/5/94-12/9/94 & 12/12/94-12/16/94:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 12/19/94-12/23/94 & 12/26/94-12/30/94:

Edited June 19, 2024 by JAS0N47

[Gray Bunny]

The Devil comes to Salem...

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[kalbir]

Y&R: Rex death. Phyllis crashes Rex's memorial. Michelle Stafford chose one of her scenes from the Rex memorial episodes as part of the Y&R 50th anniversary memorable moments clip set.

 

Y&R this week: Phyllis attempts to murder Christine. We saw this episode during the classics.

[JAS0N47]

FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/2/95-1/6/95 & 1/9/95-1/13/95:

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FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 1/16/95-1/20/95 & 1/23/95-1/27/95:

[kalbir]

What to watch for in 1995.

Reilly Days blows up and begins to threaten Y&R dominance.

Guiding Light enters cancel territory.

Loving ends and The City premieres.

OJ.

CBS sold to Westinghouse and hello Les Moonves.

ABC in the process of being sold to Disney.

P&G shows all get new EPs.

 

[Gray Bunny]

And despite all the hoopla of the Possession storyline, we will see it was actually the Aremid storyline in the latter half of '95 that puts them ahead of the AMC/B&B/GH pack consistently. 

[kalbir]

B&B starts tanking to me in the second half of 1995. 

From the annual ratings, 1995/96 All My Children loses 2nd to Days and B&B finishes ahead of All My Children.