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Disney rejected it either because they would've had to compete with Lifetime, Oxygen, Bravo, Style Network, WeTV, and about a dozen other, similar networks that compete for the same "niche market"; or, because they couldn't understand Frons' fascination with S&TC anymore than we could. (Seriously, Frons, just b/c your beard wife watched it religiously every week didn't mean everyone else in America did.)

(So, "Disney Moms" would have been a network for Moms...and their families. Ohhhhkay.)

Ironically, I think Anne Sweeney was/is right about SN needing to evolve. Once DVR's and such entered the marketplace, SN's basic selling point - the ability to watch "today's soaps tonight" - was gone.

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http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/carrie-disney-moms-among-rejected-ideas-for-soapnet-an-insiders-perspective-on-nets-evolution-abc-soaps-demise/

What they should do is just split soapnet, much like Nick use to do Noggin/The-N. Noggin would be like 6a-6p and would feature kiddie shows, then 6p-6a it was The-N with tween/teen shows and reruns of 90's teen shows later at night. Toon Disney could run in the morning/afternoon/early evening and then at night into the early morning they could air soaps/acquired movies/etc. See how it goes. Nick ended up spinning The-N into its own network, TeenNick.

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Too bad Disney is supposed to be "wholesome" and "conservative." Otherwise, I would have pitched "Rainbow Disney," the corporation's answer to Viacom's LOGO w/ a network geared specifically toward gay audiences.

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I was reading it and thinking, these loons make NBC look like a well run network. Frons mismanages the soaps, drives SoapNet into the ditch, comes up with two awful ideas to rebrand it which neither get picked up, AMC/OLTL get cancelled for two awful sounding shows, and now SoapNet actually might stay alive for a while longer and he still has a job? What the heck is going on over at the house of mouse?

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Because you didn't tell good stories. None of that means a damn without good story. Or did we forget to cover that between the cross-country road trips and the skunky perfume tie-ins?

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