The Soap Opera Digest Awards are an award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The awards were founded in 1984 to replaced the less lavish Soapy Award which had run since 1977. These awards are ment to promote excellence in the soap opera genre and are decided by the fans who read the magazine. The statue itself is made of call and in the shape of a heart. The February 1977 issue of Soap Opera Digest. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Soapy Awards were an award presented by Soap Opera Digest magazine to the best work on American soap operas from 1977 until 1983. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... 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...

The first award show in 1984 was featured on national syndicated television and hosted by then husband and wife Catherine Hickland and David Hasselhoff. One of the reasons for the move up was the new found audience of both Daytime and Primetime soap operas. This year for the first time an awards were given to Prime Time soap operas as well as daytime soaps. This practice has become extinct in the 1990's as primetime soap operas began losing the large appeal they once had. Catherine Hickland, in a still from One Life to Live. ... David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor best known for his lead roles on Knight Rider and Baywatch. ... PrimeTime is a television newsmagazine from ABC News. ... Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...

For the first two years fan themselves voted on the nominee's list as well as the winners. This had the side effect that in 1985 the soap opera Days of Our Lives swept every category. The third awards were changed so that the editors of the magazine chose the nominees and every reader was allowed one ballot to vote for their favorites. This allowed other shows like Santa Barbara and Another World to take home tropies. Days of our Lives is a long-running American soap opera. ... Santa Barbara was an American soap opera which ran on NBC for 2137 episodes from July 30, 1984 to January 15, 1993. ... Another World is a book by Pat Barker. ...

A change in award season from the end of the year to the beginning meant that there was no show in 1987.

In 1992 the awards were broadcast live for the first time. In addition to this the statue was redesigned to be taller.

2001 marked the first time that there was no awards ceremony and voting was done entirely online. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In 2003 the cable channel SOAPnet broadcast the awards which were hosted by Daytime Emmy nominated hosts Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway. 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An ident, usually shown at the top of the hour, or at the half-hour. ... As Billie on Days of Our Lives Ty Treadway with Lisa Rinna, co-hosts of SOAPnets Emmy-Nominated Soap Talk Lisa Rinna at her boutique Belle Gray People Magazines spread on Belle Grays success // Biography Lisa Deanna Rinna (born July 11, 1963 in Medford, Oregon) is an... The television talk show Soap Talk debuted on SOAPnet in 2002. ...

No awards were given out in 2002 or 2004. The 2005 awards were done entirely through the magazine. Fans could find a ballot in a November issue of Soap Opera Digest and mailed it to the editors. Only one ballot per person was counted. The awards were announced in the magazine in February 2005.

List of Soap Opera Digest Awards

• 1st Soap Opera Digest Awards (1984)
• 2nd Soap Opera Digest Awards (1985)
• 3rd Soap Opera Digest Awards (1986)
• 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1988)
• 5th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1989)
• 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1990)
• 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1991)
• 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1992)
• 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1993)
• 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1994)
• 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1995)
• 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1996)
• 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1997)
• 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1998)
• 15th Soap Opera Digest Awards (1999)
• 16th Soap Opera Digest Awards (2000)
• 17th Soap Opera Digest Awards (2001)
• 18th Soap Opera Digest Awards (2003)
• 19th Soap Opera Digest Awards (2005)

The first annual Soap Opera Digest Awards were held in 1984 and hosted by then husband and wife Catherine Hickland and David Hasselhoff. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Links

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