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Except, since SoapNEt aired pretty much every soap opera when it folded- why didn’t the networks lobby Nielsen to count the same-day ratings like they did DVR-airings? Towards the end of their run, All My Children and One Life To Live were pulling in an additional 20 percent of viewers each night. The business model was flawed because DVR negated the necessity for airing same-day repeats of the soap opera. SoapNet Couldn’t Last (As A Cable Network) Once again, it’s dirt cheap and basically is free money in the long run. This would allow both shows to air new episodes all year-round instead of the 10 weeks of reruns. ABC and CBS could just air them as the Friday editions of The View and The Talk all year round. Viewers can submit questions via Twitter, and cast members can answer them. They love what they do let them go up there in front of a studio audience and explain their character’s journey. The cast members know the stories, the characters’ motivations and would likely jump at the chance. There is a market out there.Īnother missed opportunity is this idea: hour-long weekly recaps hosted by a panel of rotating cast members. They offered the soap magazines thousands and thousands of photos- make some digital books or place them on advertiser-laden galleries online. You could literally print the recaps of episodes the network provided soap magazines as show bibles. That no attempts to stream compilation clip shows to get people up to date is a systemic failure by Disney/ABC (and CBS and NBC). The most challenging thing about soap operas is getting into the story. Are you seriously telling me that a library of 50,000 episodes that can be packaged and repackaged for holidays and anniversaries, sold internationally, used to cash in on former soaps stars when they make the news could not add 100 million a year to the bottom line? This is the greatest unsolved soap opera mystery of our generation, Missed Opportunties To Make Easy Cash

It’s almost like Disney/ABC would rather avoid doing anything to justify increasing the budget from $45 million each year to produce the soap (which it makes a profit on). It doesn’t offer any of this extensive library in any way, shape, or form is a travesty.

This includes every episode of General Hospital (and One Life To Live, All My Children, Port Charles, Loving, The City, and Ryan’s Hope) and owns two streaming services, Hulu and Disney+. NovemThe Greatest Unsolved Soap Opera Mystery NEVER TOLD… Disney Sits On A Gold MineĪBC/Disney owns the rights to its vast catalog of soap operas.

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