Growing up in the 1970s (before VCRs) my Mom and Grandma planned their entire day around As The World Turns. "The human race digs the cliff-hanger, digs the continuing story," he said. Once you’ve perused our choices, make sure to hit the comment section to nominate your own winners and losers. Theres still 4 daytime soaps left on network TV but the heydays of that industry are definitely in the past. Judging from those responses, there's every reason to believe soaps will always be a popular medium, said Michael Logan, TV Guide's soap opera writer.
And the idea of airing old soaps got a broadcast tryout in spring 1997, when ABC gave its daytime ratings a boost by airing past highlights from "All My Children," "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital." Soap Opera Digest provides behind-the-scenes scoops, breaking news, photos and interviews with the stars to hundreds of thousands of passionate daytime fans. The all-soaps channel test-marketed well during six-month trials last year in Chicago and Houston, said Sweeney. In mid-January 2000, Disney, which owns ABC, will begin a 24-hour channel for soap opera fans, featuring same-day rebroadcasts of the four ABC soaps ("All My Children," "General Hospital," "One Life to Live" and "Port Charles") as well as episodes of vintage ABC soaps and movies "with special appeal to this audience," said Anne Sweeney, president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks. is the only soap opera website with the most in depth daily updates, exclusive soap star interviews, late-breaking news articles, lively message. The show, which has been on the air since 1964, was the first soap to expand to one hour, and was the first daytime drama to give birth - albeit briefly - to spinoffs, "Somerset" and "Texas."ĭisney is trying a dose of night-time soap broadcast to boost daytime ratings. The show will replace "Another World," which will cease airing June 25.
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