Weekly Daytime Nielsen Ratings: 1980

Please Note: Four weeks this year (4/21/80, 6/23/80, 8/25/80, 12/22/80) are known as "fast weekly" weeks. Up until 1987, Nielsen would not report final numbers for several weeks a year. The ratings for these weeks are only preliminary, and do not count towards the yearly averages for the shows.

The stations column lists the # of stations that Nielsen counted for the ratings in a particular week. The % column is the amount of the country that received the soap. For some reason, those two numbers seem to fluctuate each week. The notes column lists all of the full and partial preemptions for each soap.