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Soap Opera Digest
February 1977 issue of Soap Opera Digest, featuring Paul Gleason of All My Children

February 1977 issue of Soap Opera Digest, featuring Paul Gleason of All My Children
Editor in Chief Lynn Leahey
Staff writers Carolyn Hinsey
Jennifer Lenhart
Categories Entertainment
Frequency Weekly
First issue November 1975
Company Source Interlink Media
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Website www.SoapOperaDigest.com

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. Paul Xavier Gleason ( May 4 1939 – May 27 2006) was an American film and television Actor. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. The magazine first debuted in November 1975, with actors John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy and Tudi Wiggins of Love of Life gracing the cover. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Aniston (born Yannis Anastassakis; July 24, 1933) is a Greek-American Actor and the father of Actress Jennifer Ron Tomme ( October 24, 1931 &mdash January 29, 2005) was an American Actor, best known for his long-running role as Bruce Audrey Peters (born February 11, year unknown in Maplewood New Jersey) is an American actress. Birgitta Tolksdorf (born December 9, 1945 in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony) is a German actress, best known in the United Gerald LeRoy Lacy (born March 27 1936, in Sioux City Iowa) is an American soap opera actor best known for playing the roles of Tony Peterson Reverend Tudi Wiggins ( October 10, 1935 – July 19, 2006) born Mary Susan Wiggins in Victoria British Columbia, was a Canadian Love of Life is an American Soap opera which was aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, Currently, the magazine boasts a subscription base of 500,000, as well as more than one million more issues purchased at newsstands and supermarkets each week. In the early 1990s, the magazine had up to 1. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 4 million subscribers.

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. Columnist Carolyn Hinsey reviews current series and soap-related events in her regular feature, "It's Only My Opinion. "

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) have been held every year since 1977, and were last televised in 2000. The Soap Opera Digest Awards are an award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. The Soapy Award was originally designed by Janis Rogak, the magazine's then-Art Director. The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet

The 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, and shortened acroynms have even spread beyond daytime television unofficially to primetime programs. The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by Mass media to describe any form of Synchronous conferencing, occasionally even Asynchronous conferencing An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site Prime Time is the major News analysis current affairs and Politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland

Examples of "soap speak" acronyms

Series with shorter titles like Capitol, Loving, Somerset and Passions are not abbreviated. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC Another World is a television Soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4 1964 to June 25 1999. As the World Turns ( ATWT) is an American television Soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS. The Bold and the Beautiful (often abbreviated to B&B) is an American Television Soap opera. Days of Our Lives is an American Soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8 1965 on the NBC network in the United The Doctors was a Soap opera which aired on NBC from April 1 1963 to December 31 1982 The Edge of Night (or known informally as Edge or EON by fans was a long-running American television mystery series/ Soap opera produced by Procter General Hospital (commonly abbreviated GH) is an American Soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network during the Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light prior to 1975 or simply GL) is an Emmy award winning American Television Love of Life is an American Soap opera which was aired on CBS from September 24, 1951 to February 1, One Life to Live ( OLTL) is an American Soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15 1968 Port Charles is a daytime Soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2 1997 to October 3 2003. This page is about the television program For the rock band of the same name see Ryan's Hope (band. Santa Barbara was an American decade long and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC Search for Tomorrow is a Soap opera which started airing on Monday September 3, 1951 on CBS. Sunset Beach is an American short-running television Soap opera, first broadcast in United States on NBC on January 6 1997 and last aired on December The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 Capitol is an American Soap opera which aired on the daytime schedule of CBS from March 29, 1982 to March 20 Loving is an American television Soap opera which aired on ABC 's daytime lineup from June 27, 1983 to November Somerset (sometimes called Another World Somerset) was an American television Soap opera which ran on NBC from March 30 Passions is an American television Soap opera created by

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Soaps In Depth is a series of Magazines created in 1997 to give American Soap opera viewers more variety in their soap-related magazine purchases Soap Opera Update was a magazine dedicated to the coverage of soap operas Soap Opera Weekly is a weekly soap Magazine that launched in November 1989
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