Daytime Nielsen Ratings Charts

[Jason47]

For all daytime fans, here are the official Nielsen book charts for various sweeps weeks from 1977-1993 for both the Monday-Friday daytime shows, as well as the Saturday morning/afternoon kids shows. I will post the charts for a May sweeps week and November sweeps week from each year to give a general look at the ratings for each show from each year.

MAY 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

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NOVEMBER 1977 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1978 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1978 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1979 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1979 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1980 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1980 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1981 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1981 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1982 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1982 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1983 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1983 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1984 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1984 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1985 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1985 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1986 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1986 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1987 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1987 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1988 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1988 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1989 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1989 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1990 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1990 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1991 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1991 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

MAY 1992 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1992 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

 

[Wilde Woman]

Thanks for taking the time to post all this, Jason.

I think I speak for everyone on this board when I say that WE rank YOU #1, always!

 

[Jason47]

Thanks! I also have 1993 to post tomorrow, so we have one more year to go.

 

[Jason47]

MAY 1993 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

NOVEMBER 1993 SWEEPS WEEK CHARTS: MONDAY-FRIDAY & SATURDAY EARLY MORNING & DAYTIME:

That's it for now. Hopefully more years to come later this year!!

 

[JasonDíSpeech]

The ratings by quarter hour is kind of interesting.

Also interesting is how lowly-rated Ryan's Hope was compared to its ABC peers in 1980. It really seems like folks picked a channel and stuck with it as the afternoon blocks have ratings closer to each other on each network.