Someone over at DR brought up that sooner or later we will get a SOD Cover with Y&R's Christel Khalil: Out! and that they would only be talking about her maternity leave, so I went out to find some of the most misleading SOD covers from the past few years.

But did they ever give OLTL, ATWT, and GL a chance to see if it could sell?

The GH/DAYS/Y&R pimping seems to have gotten worse this decade, but they don't even try with the others.

They couldn't even give GL & ATWT full covers the week of their cancellations.

I agree, but DAYS, GH and Y&R fans have long had a reputation for being the most devoted and obsessed...

I agree, but DAYS, GH and Y&R fans have long had a reputation for being the most devoted and obsessed...

yep. I remember back when SOD used to have tis awards, it was fan voted. These soaps tended to win most of them bc those fans went out and bought the mags and sent out the ballots. I remember a few eyars ago Liason fans on GH even spent thousands of dollars for an add in hopes of GH reuniting them.

Ugh there was no way to take those awards seriously (one soap book called them the "Days of our Lives Awards"). SOD even changed the voting process at some point to try to help avoid such fan campaigns but it didn't do much.

In recent years, Days, GH, and Y&R have also been stronger the 18 to 49 women demos which the magazine advertisers crave. It understandable that the soap mags feed into their advertisers' needs and find that this demo buy the issues featuring these soaps more than others.