Nielsen Pocketpiece Archives

Archives Available:

November 1954 - December 1959 (coming soon)

January 1960 - December 1964 (coming soon)

January 1965 - December 1969 (coming soon)

January 1970 - December 1974 (coming soon)

January 1975 - April 1981 (in progress)

Below is an index of full Nielsen National TV ratings reports, often referred to as the "Nielsen Television Index" or "Nielsen Pocketpieces." These will be added piecemeal overtime as scans are able to be completed and this page will serve as an introduction to the scope of the project and an index of all of the reports posted on this site. 

My goal with this project is to digitize and publish every Nielsen Pocketpiece between November 1954 and April 1981. November 1954 is the earliest one I've been able to locate and April 1981 is when the full Primetime TV ratings began being published in the The Los Angeles Times.

With 2 reports published each month and a total of 26.5 years, there are a total of 636 Pocketpieces I'm hoping to archive. Of these 636, there are currently 16 reports that I haven't located yet and I've provided a chart below to diagram exactly which ones are missing. If anyone has any tips to fill these gaps, please email me using the Contact Form in the sidebar.

I may, at some point, work on gathering all the Pocketpieces post-1981, but my initial goal is to finish the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s first.

Progress Track:

Year	Located Pocketpieces
1954	4/4
1955	24/24
1956	24/24
1957	24/24
1958	24/24
1959	24/24
1960	24/24
1961	24/24
1962	24/24
1963	24/24
1964	24/24
1965	24/24
1966	24/24
1967	24/24
1968	24/24
1969	24/24
1970	24/24
1971	24/24
1972	18/24
1973	20/24
1974	24/24
1975	24/24
1976	24/24
1977	24/24
1978	23/24
1979	19/24
1980	24/24
1981	8/8

Missing Months	Missing 1st Report	Missing 2nd Report
July 1972	X	X
August 1972	X	X
September 1972	X	X
September 1973	X	X
October 1973	X	X
April 1978		X
May 1979	X	X
June 1979	X	X
July 1979	X