Does Agnes Nixon have an Interest in AMC or OLTL?

[DaytimeFan]

I found a list of production companies that the WGA are striking against (http://www.wga.org/subpage_member.aspx?id=2537) and one of them happened to be called Agnes Nixon & Associates. First off I never knew Nixon had a production company. But it leads me to wonder, does Nixon have any form of ownership (like 10% or even less) of either OLTL and AMC or does ABC own them outright 100%.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

From what I understand, ABC owns both AMC and OLTL outright...

[Toups]

Didn't Agnes own a percentage until she sold her share to ABC in the early or mid 70's?

[Kubla Khan]

She has a company called Dramatic Creations, which owned AMC and OLTL in 70s until she sold them to ABC. Agnes Nixon & Associates currently has a stake in the international distribution of AMC. Agnes collects some of the profit AMC generates airing overseas.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Does AMC still air anywhere outside of North America? B&B, Y&R, and DAYS, and even the P&G soaps to an extent have some wide international distribution, but that doesn't seem to be the case with the ABC soaps.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Doesn't Dramatic Creations own Loving/The City outright? I don't think ABC ever had any owning interest in those soaps, at least not to the extent they do with the soaps currently airing on ABC.

[Kubla Khan]

Yes. DC owned Loving/The City.

AMC does air overseas. I'm not sure what specific countries, but it does air haphazardly throughout Europe. And it airs pretty heavily in the Middle East, for whatever reason.

[DevotedToAMC]

Which is more than likely why she has pretty much no power now...and that truly does stink since she is one of the true soap legends still alive

[DevotedToAMC]

She did, or at least that is what I read somewhere

[DevotedToAMC]

It might air in Australia and some parts of Europe. I know that, when I was in London and Paris in 1999, I could not find a channel in either city that aired AMC...not that I was going to watch it while on vacation but just was curious if our shows air over there to some extent

[DevotedToAMC]

Ahh so there are quite a few countries that have the chance to see a walking fetus

[Paul Raven]

Days, Y&R and B&B are the only US soaps that air in Australia.

[dragonflies]

Yeah Cady made reference once to AMC airing in the middle east

[sheilaforever]

I think it's Slowenia and/or Croatia - SON user Manny once talked about this. To my knowledge does AMC air nowehere else in Europe and the Middle East alongside those countries isn't exactly a cash cow. I'd say Dixon earns close to nothing via international distrubution except maybe a Xmas Card.

I remember that AMC failed miserably in France not too long ago and got cancelled after three, I repeat THREE, episodes. Interstingly enough its title was "La Force du Destin"...

International success is often uncalculable. B&B got HUGE overseas long before it gained major momentan in the US via the Spectras and Sheila. It was long before a major hit in Italy and Greece due to the audience's affection for Joanna Johnson which apparently gained megastar fandom in those countries, followed by KKL who along other B&B'ers is even hired for commercials of all kind. Just last year Ronn Moss did a commercial in Australia which shows his star status down under.

However, and going back to the topic of this thread, I think Nixon made quite a fortune with her company with her biggest ffailure, LOVING, which aired for its entire run in France and Turkey with pretty large fanfare as I once read.

One would think that Disney via Buena Vista would push its soaps a little bit and just include it into his package deals with foreign networks to gain some additional cents but they are just too dumb or lazy.

[JamesF]

Just for the record the soaps airing in the UK currently are Y&R, B&B, GL and DOOL. All of which are on fairly low rated cable channels. AMC and OLTL are the only two of the current batch that have never aired over here on any channel to the best of my knowledge. Even when ABC tried their luck with a cable net over here (mostly taken up with Disney owned shows like 8 Simple Rules/Ellen/Less than Perfect), the only soap they attempted to run was GH and that ended up being pulled due to some backstage politics. Sunset Beach and to a lesser extent B&B and Santa Barbara are the only shows to gain popularity over here.

If ABC or Dramatic Creations were smart they would have pushed The City on to a UK audience. It had decent production values, a relatively well known name in Morgan Fairchild and most importantly it was only 30 minutes which tends to be the limit for sustained viewership outside the US.