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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Disney/ABC TV Group is shutting down decade-old cable channel SoapNet to make room for a new kids channel. The company will launch Disney Junior, a 24-hour channel ...

Disney plans to shut down SOAPnet to make way for new cable channel Disney Junior in 2012, the company announced Wednesday. SOAPnet launched in 2000 and currently airs a mix of recent episodes of ...

SoapNet going on ‘Holidate’ with reality special SoapNet has greenlighted the reality special/backdoor pilot "Holidate" and has acquired all seven seasons of "Gilmore Girls" as well as movie packages ...

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 ...

ABC Cable Network Group’s SoapNet has expanded its management team to help oversee the soap-opera channel’s rapid growth. Sherri York, formerly national director of marketing and communications for ...

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 ...

The sands of the hourglass will soon begin flowing on SoapNet. In a landmark multiyear deal, the sudser web has pacted with Sony Pictures Television for same-day repurposing rights to NBC’s top-rated ...

SoapNet general manager Deborah Blackwell is departing her post effective immediately but will continue as a consultant until her contract expires at the start of next year. Departure comes following ...

It used to be that harried soap-opera watchers too busy to catch their shows during the day had only one friend: the videocassette recorder. Now, watchers have a multitude of choices, from TiVo, the ...

Among the many things ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” has proved this season is this: Women in the ‘90s did not stop watching daytime dramas because they wanted to. They simply couldn’t. Work beckoned ...