Who hogged the most airtime in all of 2009? After years of coming in second to his female counterparts, did “General Hospital’s” Steve Burton edge out the competition in 2009?

(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — Important new information on the upcoming ”All My Children” garage sale. As previously reported, on Monday, November 23, “All…

“All My Children” Head-Writer Charles Pratt, Jr. has been released from his duties at the ABC soap.

Soap Opera Digest confirmed on Friday afternoon that controversial “All My Children” Head Writer Charles Pratt, Jr. has been released from his position with the ABC soap. Sources close to the matter indicate that the official announcement from ABC will be made this Monday.

It’s been called the unofficial start of fall and the last major summer holiday. Labor Day was created to honor the working men and women across the United States. It’s also a chance for ABC Daytime to take the opportunity to catch viewers up on some of the key moments from the recent past that helped define current storylines.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:11 AM ET | By Errol Lewis (SoapOperaNetwork.com) — Forbes March joins the cast of CBS’…

ABC Daytime and SOAPnet have signed on as presenting sponsor of Stagecoach, the popular Country Music Festival that takes place annually in California.

After 72 years on air between radio and television, CBS’s “Guiding Light” will cease broadcasting on the CBS Television Network due to low ratings. Love may save the world, but apparently it wasn’t enough to save television’s longest running daytime drama. Even with having its name published in the Guinness World Record Book and winning three Daytime Emmy’s for Best Drama Series (the most recent being in 2007), “GL” found itself unable to withstand the mass exodus of viewers from the traditional daytime soap format in recent years.

Gary Tomlin officially takes over “Days of our Lives” from Ed Scott.

Watch episode 9 of “Imaginary Bitches,” the digital drama series starring “All My Children’s” Eden Riegel (Bianca Montgomery).

ABC announces Cameron Mathison (“All My Children”) and Sherri Shepherd (“The View”) as hosts of “The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.”

Former “As The World Turns” bad boy Shawn Christian joins the cast of “Days of our Lives” as Salem University Hospital’s newest hot doctor.

EXCLUSIVE: Soap Opera Network has learned the names of soap opera writers who declared “Financial Core” status to keep on working during the strike. By going “Fi-Core,” these writers can never be members of the WGA again but they continue to pay reduced union dues and the Guild is obligated to continue providing services such health insurance, pension and residuals. Though they can still work on Guild projects, Guild members will not be keen to hire them.

Brent Weber, Alec Musser and Jeff Branson are exiting “All My Children” along with Leven Rambin, who last year made clear her decision to exit the ABC soap.

End of the road for Haiduk…

Impulse reactions may change relationships forever this week in Pine Valley.

By Errol Lewis (SoapOperaNetwork.com) — “General Hospital: Night Shift” premiered on July 12, 2007 with an average of 1 million…

Brian Frons promoted to President, Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group, Anne Sweeney, Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group, announced yesterday.

In the last couple of years ABC Daytime has had a nack of hiring actors and actresses with Broadway backgrounds, most noteably Renee Elise Goldsberry (“The Color Purple”), as Evangeline Williams and Kathy Brier (“Hairspray”) as Marcie Walsh on ABC’s “One Life To Live.” Now the network has hired Broadway star Christian Hoff for a recurring role on “All My Children.”

Sources are confirming the exit of actress Marcy Walker from the role of Liza Colby Chandler. Walker’s departure is on the heals of Amelia Heinle’s exit from the series earlier this month. Heinle played Walker’s onscreen sister, Mia Saunders from 2001-2004.