An old interview with Michael Storm.
An old interview with Michael Storm.

In the 1980's, ABC Daytime generated 3/4's of the entire ABC networks revenue, making the lineup the most lucrative in all television. Since then ABC Daytime has become what fans call the "wicked step-child" of the ABC Television Network, a division of the Walt Disney Company. Now the network is showing some love to its most loyal and avid audience.

After firing the writing teams of "Days of our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless" during the infamous Writer's Strike earlier this year, Sony Pictures Television, producer of both soaps, continues to house power struggles between executives and writers at the top ranked daytime soap operas.

When we came up with the Bringing.Drama.Closer campaign on Soap Opera Network many years ago, we never thought that 2008 would bring some of the biggest controversies in the daytime world, nor did we think it would be happening off screen and behind-the-scenes.
In 1968, "One Life to Live" created controversy with a storyline in which viewers outraged when they saw what they perceived to be a white woman kissing a black doctor. Forty years later, African-Americans in Llanview appear to be nonexistent.