SOAPnet
Summary
SOAPnet (stylized from 2000 to 2002 as SoapNet) is an American cable television channel that broadcasts current and past soap operas and primetime dramas, along with some original programming. The channel launched on January 20, 2000, and is owned by Disney-ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The channel does not have a high definition simulcast.On May 26, 2010, Disney-ABC announced that SOAPnet will not continue but will be closed sometime in January 2012 and be replaced completely with Disney Junior, which will be the rebranding for the current Playhouse Disney block on The Disney Channel and be set up as Disney's competitor to Nick Jr..
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Disney Junior Launches a New Parent-Focused Programming Block
Newly rebranded cable network Disney Junior (which is in the process of replacing SoapNet) will premiere a new short-form programming block aimed at parents from 9:00 p. m. to 4:00 a. m. starting September 4 of this year. The network has had a strong start with ratings winner Doc McStuffins, and is looking to expand its reach into hours when its core audience is up past its bedtime.
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Disney Junior Chases Next Generation of TV Viewers
As the kids networks face stiff competition for those young eyeballs, Disney Channel last week spun off its popular preschool programming block into a full-fledged network.
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Disney, Comcast Reach Deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) â The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it reached a long-term agreement with the nation's largest TV signal provider, Comcast Corp. , that extends their partnership into the next decade.
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One Life To Live & All My Children Find New Life Online. Will Fans Follow?
Soap opera addicts with good broadband can breathe a sigh of relief: ABC (NYSE: DIS) has licensed All My Children and One Life to Live, which it’s yanking off the air in the next few months, to Jeff Kwatinetz and Disney Studios vet Rich Frank’s Prospect Park. The soaps will appear solely online.
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Elizabeth Donoghue: A Shocking Conclusion!
I have a bit of a secret. No, I never switched a paternity test, snatched a baby with a birth mark I later concealed, or slept with the husband of a close friend or relative.
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Soap Operas: Can They Survive?
After moving the entire production from New York to Los Angeles to save money, publicly cutting the paycheck of its most well-known star, and eliminating long-time cast members, the show still remains on the chopping block. What's a classic show to do?.
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Upfront Update: Disney's Time to Shine - Simon Applebaum
Disney's trio of cable channels--Disney Channel, Disney XD and the network currently formatted as SOAPnet that becomes Disney Junior next winter--declared their "Time To Shine" at the only upfront presentation happening last week in New York. Was it coincidence or Disney executives wishing upon a star that people came to the event in a pouring rain, and walked out to a sunny sky down Broadway? You figure.
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Time Warner shakes off subscriber slump
Earnings Reports: Ads, services blunt stagnant signups and boost revs -- Time Warner Cable and Cablevision posts higher revenues and profits in the second quarter.
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Disney Trades In SOAPnet For Tot Net, Disney Junior
If this were a soap opera, we’d spend the next few months following an endless series of misleading clues and Friday cliffhangers for the culprit who killed SOAPnet. But like so many soap plots, when you get to the end there’s no real mystery: SOAPnet, the original timeshifting channel, is place shifting its largely female audience to DVRS, VOD and online.
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Disney Trades In SOAPnet For Tot Net, Disney Junior
If this were a soap opera, we’d spend the next few months following an endless series of misleading clues and Friday cliffhangers for the culprit who killed SOAPnet. But like so many soap plots, when you get to the end there’s no real mystery: SOAPnet, the original timeshifting channel, is place shifting its largely female audience to DVRS, VOD and online.
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