Members Khan Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wingwalker Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGnz4RykgF8&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 Cancellation was handled on Chelsea Handler's show Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 I love Chelsea Lately! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 http://www.theblowoff.com/2011/04/soap-opera-blow-off-former-executives.html A somewhat insiders account of the recent past at ABCD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 LOL I dare you to go to SOC and say something like this, you get your head chewed off for being "negative" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MontyB Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 Ironically, what that girl with the dark hair said is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 For reals. If everyone were black this would be Tyler Perry presents Madea's Changing Channels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 Interesting little article, I wonder who the writer actually is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 Sara Saedi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RavenWhitney Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/all-my-stories/?hp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 19, 2011 Members Share Posted April 19, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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