Time After Time/Soap World

The New York Daily News was at the Save OLTL and AMC Rally yesterday and has a poll now asking :

Should ABC cancel the soaps, 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live'?

Yes, it's a pure ratings decision.No, you can't take away my beloved soaps!Who cares?

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/04/26/2011-04-26_soap_opera_fans_protest_at_abcs_offices_over_cancellation_of_all_my_children_one.html#ixzz1Kjl3YKG7 The poll has 85% voting Yes . 85% of the resp...

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Word on the street according to The Library of American Broadcasting my all time favorite head writer and soap creator Agnes Nixon was named as one of their "Giants of Media" during an event at the Grand Hyatt in New York on Oct. 6.  To her credit Aggie wrote for: 

Word on the street in an intrview with Michael Logan veteran journalist Carolyn Hinsey (Soap Opera Digest, New York Daily News) reveals her upcoming book published 4th Street Media called Afternoon Delight: Why Soaps Still Matter.  The book is due out in 2011.
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Word on the street according to an article on Business Insider is that daytime soaps have lost 30% in ad dollars between 2005-2009.  In the first half of 2010 they also lost another 20%. 

So why is this happening? 

I...

I am so happy to say that Soap Savers Inc has joined forces with Save Our Soaps 2010's  (on Facebook )Sue Okonis & Tami King who are holding a rally in New York this monday Sept. 20th with mini rallies across the country and Silas Kane of Blog Talk radio who has created a "Soap"osal that has already been downloaded by P&G and Oprah. These ...

Word on the street according to Yahoo is that several high profile Latino's incudling a former so...

Word on the street as mentioned via their facebook page The Bay creator Gregori J. Martin announced the show has been signed up for broadcast in 19 European countries.  Here is what he has to say on the subect: 

You heard it from me first! As it seems, my new series The ...

Word on the street, according to the Soap News & Scoops (SNS) Board is that Ed Scott, former Producer of Young & The Restless and Days of Our Lives, is back at B&B to serve as Producer.  Scott replaces Rhonda Friedman, who will be working  with Bradley Bell on in a managerial capacity. Ed Scott is also the husband of Y&R actress Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki).&...

Word on the street according to Savoy is that Nielsen Company best known to fans of  soaps as the company that provides weekly ratings for your favorite daytime serials in a variety of ways has now launched microsites geared t...

Word on the street in article on Advertising Age about the decline in soaps Brian Frons ABC Daytime President and Barbara Bloom CBS Daytime Vice-President both speak out about the current state soaps on their respective networks. 

In our first excerpt Frons disses ...

The Bay will be premiering in September and in my opinion is a must see. The storyline is fantastic, the stars are the best of the SoapWorld and Gregori J Martin is a genius at producing . Put this all torgether and you will have The Hit of the season. I look forward to watching and covering it. Here is the promotion for it. Excellent! Yo...

Is this the answer to saving the soaps on television? Will the Writers Guild agree? This is the word on the street and if it works that is fine ,but I am worried it is just one of the final nails in soaps coffin.

ABC is requesting a waiver from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) allowing them to ignore guarantees in their current writers' contracts,...

Word on the street on Bassline Intelligence Jim Romanovich dicusses the decline in daytime and the Emmy's in a must read peice.  Here are a few excerpts from it:

The s...

Word on the street according to Deadline Hollywood is that Julie Chen’s The View-like talk show has been picked up by CBS and will replace As the World Turns thi...

Word on the street in a comment delivered to our Facebook page the Proper Manor's creator Pietro D'Alessio (with whom we

In this we discuss what went wrong with the American versions of the latin telenovela sensations that aired on MT TVNetwork.  There were a lot of issues that came along with what could have been the next phase in the soap world with telenovela's and I'd like to lay out my thoughts on that for you.  So enjoy. 

Word on the street according to an article in TheWarp is that advertisers perfer soaps over game and talk shows.  In the first exerpt frome the piece one ad buyer explains why:

ABC is trying to enter the web series genre with match-ups of their soap stars from AMC, GH, OLTL and my opinion is  they should

not bother.

The too too cutsie match up of sonny corinthos and Erica Cane was snore inspiring. Erika and her super huge ego and sonny and his over inflated ego made the elevator lose it's air supply ...