Stephanie Sloane has joined TV Guide as a columnist. The column titled "Soap Dish" debuts in the January 8-28, 2024 triple issue, on sale January 4, 2024.
Alan Locher to host "A Salute to Soap Opera Digest" with former editors Meredith Berlin, Lynn Leahey and Stephanie Sloane. Find out when and how to watch.
Stephanie Sloane exits a360media as VP, Editorial Director. She oversaw the now discontinued weekly print edition of Soap Opera Digest and teen books (ex: J-14)
The final weekly print edition of Soap Opera Digest has already been released, with the November 13, 2023 issue being the magazine's last.
"Ambitions" creator Jamey Giddens has joined the writing team of "Days of our Lives" and spinoff "Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem" as a breakdown writer. His work first airs with the finale episode of "Beyond Salem" releasing Friday, September 10 on Peacock.
"The Young and the Restless" executive producer Anthony Morina and co-executive producer/head writer Josh Griffith discuss Phyllis switcheroo and more.
America Media, Inc. (AMI) has purchased 37-year-old Soap Opera Digest from previous owner Source Interlink Media. As followers of Soap Opera Network knew, America Media licensed Digest from Source Interlink on April 14, 2011, wherein American Media would retain editorial, advertising, marketing and distribution control of the magazine and its sister publications Soap Opera Weekly and Pixie! (both now defunct), while ownership would remain with Source Interlink.
Although the likelihood was expected thanks to the loss of long-time soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" in 2011 and 2012, which were preceded by the departures of "Guiding Light" and "As The World Turns" in 2009 and 2010, news broke on Thursday, March 22 that after 22 years in publication Soap Opera Weekly would end its successful run as one of the premier soap opera magazines. The final decision to end the mag was just one of many blows the…
In a story we had been following since it was first reported last April that Soap Opera Weekly and Soap Opera Digest magazines would fall under the umbrella of American Media, publishers of such mags as Star and TV Guide, Soap Opera Network has learned that after 22 years Soap Opera Weekly (launched in November 1989) will be shuttered and its April 10, 2012 issue will be its last.
On Thursday, May 12, Soap Opera Network broke news when we reported that layoffs occurred earlier this week at Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly after American Media, Inc. officially took over editorial, advertising, marketing and distribution control of both publications from Source Interlink Companies, which retains ownership of both titles. Now comes word that Lynn Leahey, Editorial Director of both magazines along with lesser known title Pixie, is stepping down. We're told it was…
