''Soap Opera Weekly'' was a weekly magazine covering American daytime
soap opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...
s. It featured onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Launched in November 1989 by
News Corporation
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with Mimi Torchin as editor-in-chief, ''Weekly'' began as a sister magazine to ''
Soap Opera Digest
''Soap Opera Digest'' is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It features onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional in ...
''. News Corporation sold the magazine to
K-III
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in 1991. K-III was renamed Primedia, and sold its magazines to
Source Interlink
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in 2007.
American Media, Inc.
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took over Source Interlink's soap magazines in 2011; ''Soap Opera Weekly'' ceased publication in 2012.
AMI folds 'Soap Opera Weekly'
''Adweek''. April 10, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
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* ''Soap Opera Digest
''Soap Opera Digest'' is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It features onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional in ...
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* ''Soap Opera Magazine
''Soap Opera Magazine'' was a weekly periodical devoted to interviews and recaps of American soap operahttp://www.soapoperaworld.com/soap-opera-magazine.html Soap Opera Magazine and was run for many years by American Media until the company, whic ...
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* ''Soap Opera Update
''Soap Opera Update'' was a magazine dedicated to the coverage of soap operas, co-founded by Angela Shapiro in 1988. The magazine was published every three weeks. It was purchased by Bauer Media Group in 1992. The magazine became popular on newsst ...
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* ''Soaps In Depth
''Soaps In Depth'' is an American entertainment magazine, formerly published as a series of biweekly print publications and currently as an online-exclusive publication, that is dedicated to coverage of daytime soap operas. Founded in 1997 by B ...
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Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines about soap operas
Magazines established in 1989
Magazines disestablished in 2012
Magazines published in New York City
Weekly magazines published in the United States
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