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Save Our Soaps!

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On April 14,2011 ABC Network announced they will cancel 2 beloved  daytime dramas that have been on air for many, many years. All My Children and One LIfe TO Live.  AMC will be off air September 2011 and OLTL will follow in Jan 2012. They are to be replaced with 2 "informative" shows called "The Chew" and "The Revolution"(working title). In my opinion,we are being bombarded with too many reality and talk shows.  These 2 iconic shows were my "great escape" from reality! Until ABC reconsiders this decision and keeps these shows on the air, I will block ABC/Disney viewing from my satellite dish and I will not buy any products or items from Disney (I have 5 grandchildren) or anything else  that this network advertises! I will encourage my family, friends and all fans of AMC and OLTL do the same!

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Return our soaps!
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soaps nack - 11/18/12 11:39 PM
Anonymous
soaps nack

Bring back the soaps like knots landing.  Tired of reality shows. 

 

Save our soaps - 12/19/11 4:49 PM
Anonymous
Save our soaps

ABC Used to my one and only network i cant believe how you dont care about us.I am 37 and have watched the soaps and other shows for years.I have never liked talk shows or reality tv.It is a shame.

News? - 7/7/11 8:24 AM
Anonymous
News?

Is there any news about another station picking them up at all? I hate to give up hope!  I used to go to abcnetworksucks.com  but it says it will no longer be trying to save the soaps! Wonder what gives!

SaveOurSoaps365 - 7/6/11 6:35 AM
Anonymous
SaveOurSoaps365

What is the use of ABC replacing All My Children and One Life To Live with a cooking and lifestyle show because of ratings. It's not like Chewlution will have loew ratings because everyone will be at work or they will turn to another network to watch another soap opera. Can ABC ever think, can they ever think at what they do. So people have to leave work just to watch a cooking and lifestyle show.

save our soaps - 6/23/11 9:58 AM
Anonymous
save our soaps

I am very upset that abc is threating the fans of these beloved soaps so disrespetful, what are you thinking abc. We the thousands of fans are what makes these soaps so popular. We do not need anymore reality shows or cooking shows we have enough of them. We need the fantasy world of these soaps, we need an escape from realitry for a few houurs in the day. We need our soaps. PLEASE SAVE OUR SOAPS.

Joyce - 6/1/11 4:31 PM
Anonymous
Joyce

This is a great idea.  I am so disappointed with ABC that they would screw their loyal viewers......so the loyal viewers will screw them.  How could they offer such crappy shows and make us give up our soaps?

SAVING OUR SOAPS - 5/15/11 10:31 PM
Anonymous
SAVING OUR SOAPS

h HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

long time viewer - 5/14/11 7:32 PM
Anonymous
long time viewer

What is ABC thinking. I have watched these soaps since I was a little girl. This has upset me greatly. ABC change your mind!!!

Ticked off ! - 4/25/11 9:05 PM
Anonymous
Ticked off !

I want AMC. I will never watch ABC unless they rescind their cancellation of AMC.

you have lost 8 more viewers - 4/25/11 7:29 PM
Anonymous
you have lost 8 more viewers

We are so upset over this we don't need cooking or talk shows. I will no longer watch Abc and I speak for many many people.I think abc did us all avery injustice! I can only hope that if they don't change there mind that there is so many channels now that someone will pick it up.

You have lost another viewer! - 4/22/11 10:01 AM
Anonymous
You have lost another viewer!

We don't need to throw away a true part of America. I can see all the cooking, reality shows I want to from morning til' night. I have all the cookbooks I need and cooking isn't my #1 interest or watching all the "craz'ies" on the reality shows. I will not watch any new show on ABC. Taking our Soaps is like dropping the Atom Bomb on us. NOW... that is the truth... not your so-called surveys or studies... which I am sure wasn't done!!!!!

Boycott Sponsors After September! - 4/19/11 4:12 PM
Anonymous
Boycott Sponsors After September!

Shouldn't we tell the sponsors that we will boycott them AFTER September if shows are cancelled? They are paying money to ABC now and if ABC loses more money they might just pull the soaps sooner than we expect! Oh, don't get me wrong! I'm really grateful that HOOVER is supporting us on this but don't want it to back fire on us!

Hoover Pulled Adds From ABC! - 4/19/11 9:17 AM
chaoticmary

Member since:
4/17/2011

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Hoover Pulled Adds From ABC!

Hoover has pulled their adds from ABC network in support of our crusade to keep our soaps on! Thank you Hoover! We need to contact more sponsors! Does anyone have a link of the sponsors of ABC? If so, please post.

SueLM - 4/18/11 12:30 PM
Anonymous
SueLM

I will definitely boycott ABC if these shows do not remain on the air!  What were you thinking!!!!! You need to fire you're program director.  Noone needs another Food or Lyfestyle program..  Get real.

SAVE OUR SOAPS - 4/18/11 7:27 AM
Anonymous
SAVE OUR SOAPS

Come on ABC, get your head out of your butt before its too late.  There is not ONE SINGLE person who will watch these lastest, regurgitated reality shows.  I will stop watching ABC altogether if you go thruogh with this stupidity.  REALLY.  You wanna see people cooking go to the food network.

Save the Soaps - 4/17/11 8:13 PM
Anonymous
Save the Soaps

ABC network really stinks!  You dont have programs worth watching now ,except AMC and OLTL. Just what we need is another show to tell us what to eat or not.   When these go I won't need to ever have your network in my tv line up!!  Hopefully SoapNet will pick up these two great shows keeping these great actors working as so many people have loss their jobs.

Really Pissed

Dumbest Move in History - 4/17/11 5:56 PM
Anonymous
Dumbest Move in History

This is the dumbest thing ABC could do - AMC and OLTL are the ONLY two shows I ever watched and now there is NO REASON to watch the network!  This is like losing a member of my family - and ABC will never, ever, get the same kind of loyalty from yet another reality show about food and weight lose -and all because of The View - I hate that show - it is the dumbest show and is emabarassing to the females every where - the women are air heads and even Barbara Walters lost my respect because she is on it.  What a stupid show and what an even dumber thing to do ........do it ABC - and you are killing yourself......STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!

Save our Soaps - 4/17/11 5:47 PM
Anonymous
Save our Soaps

The momment that OLTL ends will be the end of me watching ANYTHING daytime or primetime on ABC and I will boycott all sponsers that allowed this to happen. 

ABC is DEAD - 4/17/11 5:44 PM
Anonymous
ABC is DEAD

If ABC kills AMC......ABC is DEAD to me!!!!  I've watched this show since the beginning.  I used to tape it with the VCR when I was at work and have been watching it online at ABC.com since they included it at their site.  I will not watch ABC again once AMC is cancelled and I have already started boycotting all other shows.  I WILL NEVER WATCH ABC AGAIN!!! 

Spread The Word - 4/17/11 4:01 PM
chaoticmary

Member since:
4/17/2011

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Spread The Word

   www.abcnetworksucks.com

ericakaneno1 - 4/17/11 3:23 PM
Anonymous
ericakaneno1

YOU HAVE SCREWED YOURSELF THIS TIME ABC! MAY AS WELL GO AHEAD AND SHUTDOWN THE STUDIO. NOBODY WILL BE WATCHING!

save them - 4/17/11 3:10 PM
Anonymous
save them

if our soaps are not saved i will not watch ABC or support anything Disney..it's over for them

Save Our Soaps - 4/17/11 2:56 PM
Anonymous
Save Our Soaps

I seen on a message board where someone wrote "Fire The Dopes and Save Our Soaps". That should be our motto!

Save AMC and OLTL - 4/17/11 2:32 PM
Anonymous
Save AMC and OLTL

I will not support any idiotic replacement Frons has planned for the soaps time slot. I want AMC to stay. Fire Frons and his writers and hire writers and execs who know what they are doing. BrianFrons is nothing more than a ale chauvinist and pervert. Fire him before it's too late ABC! He will be the downfall of daytime tv!

I will never watch ABC programming again. - 4/17/11 1:46 PM
Anonymous
I will never watch ABC programming again.

This goes double for buying their sponsors products.  ABC doesn't care about its viewers, so now I don't care about ABC.  AG

Save AMC and OLTL - 4/17/11 11:46 AM
Anonymous
Save AMC and OLTL

Every soap fan should join, we will not be silenced.

Georgia - 4/17/11 11:12 AM
Anonymous
Georgia

Thanks for starting this boycott.  I've signed every petition I can find.  I am SO UPSET!!!

Save Our Soaps - 4/17/11 10:33 AM
chaoticmary

Member since:
4/17/2011

Total Posts:
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Save Our Soaps

Link this site to everyone you know! E-mails, message boards,etc...

COME ONE COME ALL - 4/17/11 10:30 AM
Anonymous
COME ONE COME ALL

Thank you SO much for creating this!! Will it get "visible" to the higher-ups we need the attention of?? How can I help!?

 

BRING OUR SOAPS BACK!!

Save Our Soaps - 4/17/11 10:18 AM
Anonymous
Save Our Soaps

Try this. Close browser then reopen each time one joins. I hope that works!

Save our Soaps - 4/17/11 9:55 AM
Anonymous
Save our Soaps

ok I have joined the boycott but my daughter, sister, niece and sister in law want to also and it won't let them. Says I have already joined. How can the rest of my family join?

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