Soap Opera Fans Vs. ABC Affiliates
Hardcore soap opera fans are NOT happy about ABC's decision to cancel their favorite shows.
Last week, fans of All My Children and One Life to Live started A RIOT outside of The Lincoln Center in NYC, as a way of protesting the network's new daytime line-up.
They even handed out brochures referring to the replacement shows as "glorified infomercials appropriate for late-night basic cable channels, not for a major broadcast network." Ouch!
Now, Twitter-based group Soap Fans United are encouraging fans to reach out to ABC affiliates and complain about the new line-up.
The group has been very proactive in their efforts, including writing a letter to ABC president of daytime Brian Frons, in which they accused him of "taking apart a decades old tradition that can be updated and monetized and has built in brand recognition and viewer loyalty."
Here's more from the group's letter to Frons:
"Disney is supposed to be about synergy. Where is the Disney synergy with ABC daytime? Why put on two unproven shows and take a risk with Oprah Winfrey & Regis Philbin departing your station? Many of you are putting in an extra hour of news in place of 'Oprah' but without a solid daytime lead in, the ratings are going to free fall with a domino effect from your newscasts to early prime to primetime to late local news and even late-night."
Commendable effort by Soap Fans United, but unfortunately it looks like the end of All My Children and One Life to Live is inevitable.
ABC better not touch General Hospital though! We already know these fans are willing to riot for their shows…who knows WHAT they'll do if they lose EVERY soap opera!
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Lmao, did they really start a riot or are you just being your typical drama queen? This site couldn't be more inaccurate.
You are a black cloud on this issue and shame on you!
You should be helping this campaign-especially if you are concerned for General Hospital because it will be next!
Join in the protest now and please everyone complain to both ABC and their sponsors!
I think that ABC should cancel Brian Frons. He should be fired. I don't watch soap operas anymore, haven't in over 30 years but there are ppl that have been fans and watch regularly for that long or even longer. ABC evidently doesn't care about those loyal fans. What are they putting in the place of the soaps, reality tv crap??? I think that I will protest that channel for awhile just to see what happens. I will stand up for all the soap fans that have been shit on.
there was no riot you lame ass drama queen, get back up gaga's shitter!
You should be helping not spreading lies. Save our soaps!
Yes i watch the soaps, and even if i didn't, i would still support this movement because this is wrong. Frons continues to make mistakes, one after another. It would be different if he can come out and be honest as to why the soaps are being cancelled, its all about money for him, we know this, we're not stupid, he's a greedy bastard and producing talk shows and such is cheaper. We do not like that our shows are being cancelled to be replaced by garbage that has been done over and over again on so many other channels. Frons is trying to get rid of scripted programming all together, that much is obvious. And Perez, you should be helping us!
This is pathetic. Get over it.
ABC fails to understand that most people are tired of the ever-increasing number of scriptless shows. Shows like One Life To Life offer viewers an actual plot during the day. Without them, many will once again turn away from the dying networks to cable options. If they need to save money, theyd be better off streamlining casts and storielines and keeping them on the air,
Abc has not officially announced it but they are wanting to cancel General Hospital. They are giong to replace it with Katie couric. They want to get rid of the other two then announce the cancelation. All abc soap fans should be fighting.
Oprah's new network should produce these soaps. She'd rack up some subscriptions and guaranteed viewership for any shows she runs after the soap hour. She'd inherit a cast and crew that need no instructions.