The February 1977 issue of Soap Opera Digest. Featured is Paul Gleason of All My Children.

The February 3, 2004 issue of Soap Opera Digest. Featured is Deidre Hall from Days of our Lives.

Soap Opera Digest is a magazine, chronicling the stories airing on American soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them. The magazine first debuted in 1975 (the first cover story was John Aniston, who was on Love of Life at the time). Currently, the magazine boasts a subscription base of 500,000, as well as more than a million more issues purchased at newsstands and supermarkets each week. In the early 1990s, the magazine had up to 1.4+ million subscribers. Download high resolution version (771x1133, 194 KB)Soap Opera Digest: February 1977 This work is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (771x1133, 194 KB)Soap Opera Digest: February 1977 This work is copyrighted. ... Paul Gleason on the cover of the February 1977 issue of Soap Opera Digest. ... All My Children is a popular American soap opera which has been broadcast every Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ... Download high resolution version (782x1122, 660 KB)Soap Opera Digest, dated February 3, 2004, featuring Deidre Hall. ... Download high resolution version (782x1122, 660 KB)Soap Opera Digest, dated February 3, 2004, featuring Deidre Hall. ... Deidre Hall Deidre Hall (born October 31, 1947) is an actress who is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Marlena Evans on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives. ... Days of our Lives is a long-running American soap opera. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles on various subjects. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... John Aniston, from Days of Our Lives; 1990. ... Love of Life title card from 1957. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...

The magazine, originally published monthly, moved to biweekly issues in 1979, and started publishing weekly in 1997. The current editor-in-chief is Lynn Leahey. 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The magazine holds an awards show annually to promote excellence in the genre, as decided by the fans who read the magazine. The Soap Opera Digest Awards (formerly the Soapies) has been held every year since 1977. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are are award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

This magazine coined "soap speak," in which show names are abbreviated to save space. Nowadays, with the advent of chat rooms and message boards, these shortened names for the shows have become very popular, and a use has been made of them outside of the magazine. A chat room is an online forum where people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same forum in real time). ... An Internet forum, also known as a message board or discussion board, is a web application that provides for online discussions, and is the modern descendant of the bulletin board systems and existing Usenet news systems that were widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. ...

Examples of Soap Speak: Acronyms

• All My Children - AMC
• Another World - AW
• As the World Turns - ATWT
• The Bold and the Beautiful - B&B
• Days of our Lives - DAYS (while DOOL would be the correct acronym, DAYS is used in the magazine)
• The Edge of Night - EON
• General Hospital - GH
• Guiding Light - GL
• Love of Life - LOL
• One Life to Live - OLTL
• Port Charles - PC
• Ryan's Hope - RH
• Santa Barbara - SB
• Search for Tomorrow - SFT
• Sunset Beach - BEACH
• The Young and the Restless - Y&R

Series like Capitol, Loving, The Doctors and Passions kept their names as they were shorter. All My Children is a popular American soap opera which has been broadcast every Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. ... This AW logo was used between 1987 and 1989. ... As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30 in the afternoon. ... The Bold and the Beautiful is a US television soap opera, created by Lee Phillip Bell and William J. Bell. ... Days of our Lives is a long-running American soap opera. ... The Edge of Night title card from 1960. ... General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). ... The Guiding Light (or simply Guiding Light as its known today) is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest soap opera ever told, as well as the longest running drama in broadcast history (its 14600th episode was aired 9th February 2004). ... Love of Life title card from 1957. ... One Life to Live is a soap opera which has been broadcast on the American ABC television network since July 15, 1968. ... Port Charles was a soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003. ... Ryans Hope title card from 1977. ... Santa Barbara was an American soap opera which ran on NBC for 2137 episodes from July 30, 1984 to January 15, 1993. ... Search for Tomorrow was a soap opera which aired on the CBS television network from September 3, 1951 to March 26, 1982. ... The US soap opera Sunset Beach aired on NBC at 11:00 AM from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. ... The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R) is an American soap opera that takes place in Genoa City, Wisconsin (named after a vacation spot that series creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell visited annually). ... Capitol was the name of a soap opera which aired on CBS from March 29, 1982 to March 20, 1987. ... The soap opera Loving aired on ABC from June 27, 1983 to November 10, 1995. ... The Doctors was a soap opera which aired on NBC from April 1, 1963 to December 31, 1982. ... Passions is an American television soap opera. ...

See also

• Soap Opera Magazine
• Soaps In Depth
• Soap Opera Update
• Soap Opera Weekly

Soap Opera Magazine was a weekly periodical devoted to interviews and recaps of American soap operas. ... Categories: Stub ... Soap Opera Update was a magazine dedicated to the coverage of soap operas. ... Soap Opera Weekly is a soap magazine which features soap operas and soap stars. ...

External link

• Soap Opera Digest & Weekly Homepage