Over the past 10 years, audiences for "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" have declined by 60 percent. The ratings were so anemic that ABC announced a change in format for the channel (to Disney Kids), even before canceling the soaps.īrian Frons, president of ABC Daytime, described the replacing of the soaps with talk shows as "taking a bold step to expand our business because viewers are looking for different types of programming these days." But ABC created the cable channel SOAPnet to allow evening viewing of its shows. ![]() The traditional wisdom is that soaps are dying because housewives are no longer at home in the afternoon to watch. It's been a war of attrition from the days when there were more than a dozen daily soap operas to the day when, after "One Life to Live" bows out in January, there will be only four. ![]() As one who has watched for more than 35 years, I am saddened by the sitcom's demise, but not surprised. To watchers of daytime television, Friday's final episode of "All My Children" cannot come as much of a shock.
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