When the ball drops in Times Square, the curtain will drop on cable channel SOAPnet. You'll have to find another place to watch your Beverly Hills, 90210s (the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goodbye SOAPnet, hello Disney Junior. Disney/ABC Television Group just announced that it will launch Disney Junior, a new 24-hour basic cable/satellite channel dedicated to preschool-age children in ...

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 ...

The unfortunate timing of Disney’s Disney Junior announcement — in which it was also announced that SoapNet would shut down in 2012 — means that poor SoapNet is stuck being a lame duck network for two ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reports of SOAPnet's March demise to make room for Disney, Jr. were premature, it seems. The network, which re-airs GH, Y&R and DAYS, as well as beloved daytime and prime-time shows, isn't fading to ...

After fourteen years on the air, SOAPnet will go dark on December 31, 2013. An article in the L.A. Times quotes Ben Pyne, president of global distribution for Disney Media Networks, as saying, ...