UPDATE REPORT: Prospect Park Owns Licensing Rights to ‘General Hospital’ Should ABC Decide to Cancel
According to a report in The New York Times, highlighting tomorrow's launch of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" via Hulu, Hulu Plus and iTunes, the gold standard publication revealed that Prospect Park, the company behind the new "AMC" and "OLTL," also holds the licensing rights to "General Hospital" in the event ABC decides to cancel the soap too!
The New York Times Best Sellers list is out and Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, "The Young and the Restless"), who released her memoir "Not Young, Still Restless" on Tuesday, July 31, can rest easy knowing her life's work is a raving success.
ABC Cancels ‘The Revolution,’ Provides ‘General Hospital’ With Possible 50th Anniversary Celebration
As Soap Opera Network first reported on March 16, Deadline's Nellie Andreeva is reporting that ABC has officially canceled "The Revolution" and plans to slide "General Hospital" into the 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM PT timeslot beginning Monday, September 10, the same day the network hands over the 3:00 PM ET/2:00 PM PT time period to affiliates. The news was later reported by The New York Times.
On Sunday, November 13, The New York Times reported that American Media, Inc., which earlier this year purchased the licensing rights of both Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly from owner Source Interlink, in which the company now oversees all aspects including editorial, advertising, marketing and distribution, would be launching a new weekly magazine dubbed Reality Weekly.
Children of "General Hospital" creators Frank and Doris Hursley sue ABC for "breach of contract." Find out all the deets!