JoeCool

Thank you for this. Now everything makes sense, WHat a deal Screen Gems made for themselves and subsequently SONY. Wow!

Please accept my apologies!! I did not realize Corday inherited all that!!! WOW! At least Ken fought. I apologize Ken for calling you a bad businessman. Thank you Ken for Days. I have Ken's book on my shelves somewhere need to read it. Sounds like a take it or leave it deal and Ken wanted to save Days and all the jobs. I wish DAYS would end on NBC. You are a wealth of knowledge on DAYS!! (and probably daytime too!) Thank you! What should happen is Disney/ABC, Corday Productions, SONY, the Bell Serial Company pioneer and construct an online soap streaming network. Put DAYS, Y&R, GH and B&B on there. Plus bring back AMC and OLTL. Make them all 30 minutes. And have available all the classic vintage shows. I think people would pay for that.

I agree. If AMC OLTL GL or ATWT were online and 30 minutes. I would watch. If Days was on Peacock with ads it definitely would survive and grow.

I am not as forgiving. Yes he inherited the deal but when the deal was up for renewal. He signs an indefinite deal. Corday never should have signed a deal where NBC could move the property to Peacock. Corday owns DAYS. Having an indefinite deal with SONY hampers his ability to control DAYS. Even if Corday had to agree to move DAYS to Peacock not Peacock Premium. I think just this will end with DAYS being shelved once the 2 year deal is over and its run on Peacock is over. There has been no comment from DAYS, Corday or SONY about this. I wonder why. I think because they all know the handwriting is on the wall. Days will end it run on Peacock. After 57 years, Days has earned the right to end on NBC in 2023 not on some streaming platform.

I do not think DAYS will add enough paying members to Peacock to justify all its expenses. Corday should start looking outside of Universal NBC, SONY and Peacock for development opportunities for DAYS.

I said I stood corrected earlier in a post to another member. I was wrong. I stand corrected. I apologize. Corday is not a good businessman.

Thanks for the information. I read Bill Bell's biography and was surprised he did not take ownership rights. The indefinite production deal with SONY was wrong in my view.

Then Cordray should go to Netflix or Hulu after the NBC/Sony deal is over. Peacock will destroy DAYS.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190213005731/en/Corday-Productions-Sues-Sony-to-Terminate-Distribution-Agreement-for-Days-of-our-Lives According to this Corday solely owns DAYS. Corday Productions’ President and sole owner Ken Corday remarked, “It’s extremely sad that a partnership of 54 years that was first forged in the early 1960s by my parents and what was then Screen Gems Television, and is now Sony, has deteriorated to this level. Our action today comes after deep diligent reflection. It is absolutely necessary to bring the current untenable situation out into the light in order to ensure the future of Days of our Lives for its incredible employees and for the hundreds of millions of loyal and dedicated fans worldwide.”

I stand corrected. Then why is it moving to Peacock then? Corday Productions own 1% of Y an R too.

They co-produce but they have no ownership rights at all. It is SONY owned, distributed and co-produced with Corday Productions. The Bell family owns B & B. SONY is the major owner of Y and R. ABC owns GH.

No. It is 100% owned by SONY.

I watched Days on and off over the years. But was a AMC and OLTL viewer for decades. Good bye DAYS. I hope it does well on Peacock premium but I am not going to pay more to watch it. Not when I already have Prime, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and Disney+. What I see happening is DAYS will end its run in 2023 on Peacock premium. If Days was on basic Peacock I would be more confident on its longevity. This was a business decision. Nearly 7 to 8 months of Days episodes for the 2022 to 2023 season have been filmed. The remaining costs are already budgeted for. As for old episodes, SONY owns Days and Peacock would have to pay for those episodes and I do not think it will happen purely from a business/financial perspective.

Would love to watch: One Life to Live: 1968 to 1973 All My Children 1975 to 1981 Young and the Restless 1973 to 1980

Yes!! Y&R dethroned General Hospital. With Y&R leading the way starting in 1987, CBS Daytime took over the lead permanently over ABC Daytime. Y&R still airs 12:30 to 1:30 EST on the East Coast Market. The competition was very keen with All My Children airing from 1:00 to 2:00 EST and the Days of Our Lives also at 1 to 2 EST. The timeslot of 1 to 1:30 EST was the most competitive in all of daytime. General Hospital in the 3pm to 4pm EST slot had little competition from NBC in Texas and Santa Barbara. Guiding Light was the only soap that could provide reasonable competition to GH. But GH had no real competition unlike Y&R, AMC and DAYS.

Agnes Nixon was doing most of the writing for AMC. She only wrote for OLTL from 1968 to the early 1970s then left One Life. The thought of her writing a 60 minutes show 5 days a week was not what she wanted. Agnes like Bill Bell loved and preferred the 30 minute serial format. ABC got her the writing help she needed and Agnes continue to head write AMC. Once Agnes got the new ABC studio and hired more writers and crew, AMC went to an hour. For ABC it was all for the profit and the money. Freddy Silverman was a huge supporter and fan of Agnes Nixon. When Silverman arrived at ABC, AMC was the highest rated soap, but Silverman wanted to create a 3 to 4 hour block of soaps and he did that. Silverman wanted to cancel GH and told Gloria Monty either make it a hit or it is gone.

Yes AMC 1pm had no network competition. ABC had a weak lineup before AMC from 12 to 2. AMC gave ABC strong ratings and it was an anchor and not going to be moved. Agnes Nixon did not want AMC to compete against ATWT. Agnes Nixon did not want AMC to go to an hour. She had concerns about the quality of the show and the expansion to 1 hour on the ratings. AMC was the highest rated soap on ABC from 1973 onward and was making ABC a lot of money. ABC convinced Agnes by building a huge studio just for AMC and getting her writing help. Agnes relented eventually.

Great analysis. All My Children hit #1 for the first time during the summer of 1973. ABC did indeed have faith in Agnes Nixon and gave AMC and OLTL time to grow, Because of AMC's strong ratings from 1973 to 1975, ABC bought both AMC and OLTL from Agnes Nixon and her husband and their company Creative Horizons for around $5 to $10 million.

All My Children went to 1 hour on April 25, 1977.