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The chairman of Disney Michael Eisner raised the bar on SoapNet 16 months ago when he called the Disney-owned 24-hour cable channel “the greatest thing that’s happened to our company since chopped ...

Disney/ABC TV Group is shutting down cable channel SoapNet to make room for a new kids channel. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Disney/ABC TV Group is shutting down decade-old cable channel SoapNet ...

For countless soap opera fans, the dawn of the new millennium 25 years ago brought a new way to watch their favorite shows. On January 20, 2000, Disney launched SOAPnet, a basic cable channel devoted ...

In the all-important under-50 demographic, both these girl-power, neo-feminist networks are now being beaten by a retrograde channel: Soapnet. This year to date, Soapnet is ranked eighth among all ...

Disney will end programming SOAPnet on 12/31, replacing it with Disney Junior. SoapNet launched 14 years ago to add eyeballs to its daytime dramas like All My Children and General Hospital. The move ...

Soap League, a Web-based fantasy site based on televised soaps that is designed to attract women 18 to 34. The January (NATPE Global & Content Americas) digital editions of World Screen, TV Latina and ...