But in recent months, Disney has notified cable operators that it will no longer provide programming for the channel after Dec. SOAPnet is still available in 66 million homes. And when given the opportunity, all of our affiliates kept the channel up and running.” In the end, SOAPnet was a casualty of a shift in corporate priorities for Disney - and technology. “It served an audience of super-soap fans. “SOAPnet had a great run,” Ben Pyne, president of global distribution for Disney Media Networks, said in an interview this past Friday. So, for nearly two years, the Burbank entertainment giant has provided programming for both channels, including the one it doomed long ago.” They didn’t want to risk legions of vocal soap opera fans getting into a lather, or worse, moving to a rival service. That channel launched in early 2012, but cable and satellite TV operators weren’t ready to give up SOAPnet. Disney announced three years ago its plan to fold SOAPnet to make space for Disney Junior, a channel for toddlers. In a piece with the Los Angeles Times, “The Walt Disney Company will pull the plug on the cable channel it created 14 years ago on December 31st. This has not been the start of a good week for soap fans, first with the seeming demise of All My Children for a second time, and now with the Walt Disney Company confirming that the reports that SOAPnet is coming to a close or real this time … are accurate!
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