Weekly Daytime Nielsen Ratings: 1985
Please Note: Four weeks this year (4/22/85, 6/24/85, 8/26/85,
12/23/85) 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.