Members JAS0N47 Posted June 27, 2024 Members Share Posted June 27, 2024 Yes. 8/1/95. FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1993 & MAY 1993: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted June 27, 2024 Members Share Posted June 27, 2024 And it looks kinda sudden, too! You see DAYS' ratings improving one week, then kind of retreating a bit the second week, then another little bump in the third, and then - BAM! - it's number-two! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 27, 2024 Members Share Posted June 27, 2024 ... and the finale of the Possession, along with the Carrie/Austin botched wedding by Sami, Peter Reckell's return, etc. puts DAYS nicely at No. 2 for the whole four-week stretch. It's because this is exactly when I started watching DAYS and we were a Nielsen family. J/K 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted June 28, 2024 Members Share Posted June 28, 2024 I think Days remains 2nd for the better part of the next two years. As we all know, the closest Days got to beating Y&R was June 23-27, 1997 and all of Reilly big storylines culminated in Summer 1997. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 28, 2024 Members Share Posted June 28, 2024 (edited) Yes, it's mainly DAYS and B&B (with 1 or 2 weeks of AMC inching up there) battling it for No. 2 from August '95 through February '96 when DAYS begins its streak that doesn't end until December '97. I remember the most random things, lol. Edited June 28, 2024 by Gray Bunny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 28, 2024 Members Share Posted June 28, 2024 FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUGUST 1993 & NOVEMBER 1993: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 29, 2024 Members Share Posted June 29, 2024 FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1994 & MAY 1994: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted June 29, 2024 Members Share Posted June 29, 2024 A friend has just put me on to a new resource, the Archive of the magazine BROADCASTING & CABLE. Each issue has Nielsen ratings so in that way it could supplement this information. Of course, most of each issue is articles. It begins with 1931 and goes through 2023. I'm using PDF-XChange to search for keywords, searching many issues at one time. I'm sure other PDF apps could do the same. It begins with only radio, of course, but soon includes all of TV. https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/ Offered just as FYI. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 29, 2024 Members Share Posted June 29, 2024 I've known of that resource for many years, but I think they mainly started posting the primetime Nielsen rankings at some point in the 1980's, around the same time USA Today started its weekly charts. Not much focus on daytime that I know of. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted June 29, 2024 Members Share Posted June 29, 2024 Okay, sure, may not be of much use here then. I did see a Friday night Soap Opera Awards. And the friend has found the launch of OLTL, although the article focuses on the working title "Heaven and Hell". Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted June 30, 2024 Members Share Posted June 30, 2024 FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUGUST 1994 & NOVEMBER 1994: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 1, 2024 Members Share Posted July 1, 2024 FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY 1995 & MAY 1995: Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 2, 2024 Members Share Posted July 2, 2024 (edited) FROM THE VAULT: NON-SOAP DAYTIME RATINGS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUGUST 1995 & NOVEMBER 1995: Please register in order to view this content Edited July 4, 2024 by JAS0N47 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JAS0N47 Posted July 4, 2024 Members Share Posted July 4, 2024 The rest of 1995 is now in! The November 1995 non-soaps chart above has been updated with that data. I see in October 1995 that CBS had a YR preemption but also a primetime special a few weeks later, so they aired 2 episodes in one day (one in the Price slot from 11AM-12PM), so that they would stay on target with the storylines. The same thing happened to Days a year earlier in 1994, but NBC edited two daytime episodes into one episode to keep the storylines on track. So, with YR, CBS went a different way and fans got to see both of the episodes in their entirety. FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/14/95-8/18/95 & 8/21/95-8/25/95: Please register in order to view this content FROM THE VAULT: WEEKLY DAYTIME NIELSEN RATINGS: WEEKS OF 8/28/95-9/1/95 & 9/4/95-9/8/95: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted July 5, 2024 Members Share Posted July 5, 2024 (edited) Two big moves on the business end in Fall 1995: CBS is sold to Westinghouse and Disney begins the process of purchasing ABC. On the broadcasting side in Fall 1995, CBS affiliates start moving Guiding Light to the mornings (10 am ET; 9 am Central, Mountain, Pacific). Edited July 5, 2024 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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