“Disney Junior” Replaces SOAPnet in 2012

[Eric83]

Well, the only soap I watch on Soapnet (OLTL) will probably be canned by then, so I could care less, but I will miss the GH weekly marathons on Sunday afternoon.

[Toups]

I don't have SOAPNet either, but this does affect those who use Soapnet to upload clips to Youtube! So if there's pre-emptions, they can't "wait until it airs on Soapnet" to clip them. That's how it's going to affect me.

[Carolyn1980]

I would say with certainty now that both AMC and OLTL are gone when SOAPNet goes....and maybe GH, too, depending on its ratings the next two years. Of course, by then, both DAYS and B&B (thanks to low demos) will be gone, too...leaving only Y&R, if even that.

Yep...we've been talking about it for years, but 2012 is the end of the line for virtually all the soaps. (Maybe this is what the Mayans were talking about, daytime dramas?)

[Sylph]

:lol:

[bellcurve]

Nope.

People's viewing habits, once they've migrated to somewhere it's difficult to get them to come back, if they ever do. i.e. Watching Law and Order on TNT at noon instead of All My Children.

I know this channel isn't the same that it used to be, but I loved SOAPnet in what was its heydey. I know you can get shows online and via Hulu now, but ABC/Disney squandered so much potential. They could have went after the PGP lot, John Conboy's Crapitol, etc. instead of fooling themselves into being some 18-49 female demo darling. GSN tried this, failed miserably, and have at least attempted to bring the game show fans back that they alienated.

How can Disney deny the sale of ABC at this point?!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Not like we all didn't see this coming...

[lovely_m]

Days and Y&R won't have the licensing fees anymore.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Well, it also leaves Y&R and DAYS in a vulnerable position, Sony/Bell Dramatic Television/Corday Productions won't be getting any additional revenue from same day repeats anymore. With CBS already down to two soaps and NBC down to one, all soaps may be gone in 5 year's time.

Not to mention, ABC just screwed itself out of re-purposing those soaps thus getting additional ad revenue for them from SoapNet.

[Sylph]

We didn't see it becoming a kids channel.

Perhaps you did?

[Eric83]

For some reason, I feel that GH is safe until they hit 50 years, after that it is anyone's guess on when they will be canned.

I dont think so, I think AMC, GH, B&B, and Y&R will still be here, and MAYBE Days, if they can squeak out another renewal.

[Jonathan]

This is basically ABC admitting that soaps aren't viable anymore. That is sad.

[dragonflies]

From what I remember reading, doesn't AMC do really well on Soapnet? I'd say we can say goodbye to AMC in the next year or year and half, OLTL is a goner next year IMO and GH, I don't see it surviving.

It's starting to seem like ABC wants out of the soap biz

Spare me, I have no doubt it was arrived at with nary a thought. Soapnet hasn't been Soapnet in about 2-3 years. Just like MTV isn't MUSIC TV.....

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I know Disney's had a successful pre-school cable channel in the UK, so nothing was probably going to stop them from trying that in other countries. Cable space is hard to buy in the US, so they could just as easily revamp one of their existing channels and transition it, which in this case had to be SoapNet.

[Sylph]

Oh, I don't contest that.

It's just that I saw people only mention the rebranding as a women's network. Not children's.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Maybe Sony would want to try their hands at another Soap-centric cable network again?

Nahhhhhhhhh. :lol: :lol: