Everything about Soap Opera Digest totally explained
Soap Opera Digest is a
magazine chronicling the stories airing on American
soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them. The magazine first debuted in
November 1975, with actors
John Aniston,
Ron Tomme,
Audrey Peters,
Birgitta Tolksdorf,
Jerry Lacy and
Tudi Wiggins of
Love of Life gracing the cover. Currently, the magazine boasts a subscription base of 500,000, as well as more than one million more issues purchased at newsstands and supermarkets each week. In the early
1990s, the magazine had up to 1.4 million subscribers.
The magazine, originally published monthly, moved to biweekly issues in 1979, and started publishing weekly in 1997. The current editor-in-chief is
Lynn Leahey. Columnist
Carolyn Hinsey reviews current series and soap-related events in her regular feature, "It's Only My Opinion."
The magazine holds an awards show annually to promote excellence in the genre, as decided by the fans who read the magazine. The
Soap Opera Digest Awards (formerly the
Soapies) have been held every year since 1977, and were last televised in 2000. The Soapy Award was originally designed by Janis Rogak, the magazine's then-
Art Director.
The magazine coined "soap speak," in which show names are abbreviated to save space. Nowadays, with the advent of
chat rooms and
message boards, these shortened names for the shows have become very popular, and a use has been made of them outside of the magazine, and shortened acroynms have even spread beyond daytime television unofficially to
primetime programs.
Examples of "soap speak" acronyms
Series with shorter titles like
Capitol,
Loving,
Somerset and
Passions are not abbreviated.
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