Weekly Daytime Nielsen Ratings: 1981
Please Note: Four weeks this year (4/20/81, 6/22/81, 8/24/81,
12/21/81) 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.