ABC Daytime

ABC Daytime is a programming block on the ABC Network which has historically encompassed soap operas,ABC Network talk shows the veiw

shows

History

Pat Fili-Krushel served as president of ABC Daytime from 1993 to 2000, when she resigned to join an internet company. During her tenure, the network published the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary and debuted the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles (1997-2003).

Angela Shapiro (the co-founder of Soap Opera Digest who had been ABC's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Promotion since 1995) assumed the position of President in 2000. Called "a champion of the soap fans," Shapiro is credited with adapting the prime time series practice of "refreshers" and "previews" — recapping the previous episode immediately before showing the current one and previewing the next episode at the end — and applying the concept to daytime serials. The idea is still in use today, and other networks have adopted it. Shapiro also utilized the established interconnection of ABC's three soap operas (General Hospital, One Life to Live, and All My Children) in a bolder synergy concept designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched." Over the course of six months in 2000, Daytime Emmy Award-winner Linda Dano's character Rae Cummings crossed over among all four series. Shapiro also created ABC Super Soap Weekend, a fan event held at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from 1996 (the year Disney bought ABC) to 2008. She left ABC Daytime in 2002 to head the ABC Family network, and Brian Frons was named as her replacement in August 2002. In May 2006 Frons was promoted to President of Daytime for the newly-created Disney-ABC Television Group, an entity overseeing all ABC and Disney networks and SOAPnet.

Schedule

ABC Daytime schedule (September 2012 - Present; NOTE: All times Eastern; affiliate schedules differ)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	The View
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	The Chew
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	General Hospital
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	The Katie Couric Show

Criticism and controversy

• When Megan McTavish returned as Head Writer of All My Children in July 2003, she faced criticism for a story that depicted the rape of a lesbian character, Bianca Montgomery. The show also faced opposition to its recent story of a transgender character in 2006.
• ABC Daytime scrapped a storyline on One Life to Live which was to depict a school shooting rampage the day the Virginia Tech massacre occurred on April 17, 2007.
• The Writers Guild of America East filed arbitration suits against ABC Daytime, claiming that they violated the strike-termination agreement by retaining replacement writers (those who choose Financial Core Status) who filled in during the strike on All My Children instead of bringing back the writers who had been on strike.

“The strike-termination agreement does not allow the retention of replacement writers in lieu of allowing striking writers to return to their jobs. [ABC Daytime] are clearly violating this agreement,” said Ira Cure, senior counsel for the WGA East, in a statement. “They have left us no other option but to file arbitrations to ensure that our members will be afforded their rights outlined under this agreement.” Broadcasting & Cable: Arbitration Suit Against ABC-D

• In December 2008, Soap Opera Weekly/Soap Opera Digest critic Marlena De Lacroix called ABC Daytime a "chauvinistic hellhole". [1]

In August of 2009, Frons announced that the production of All My Children would move from New York City to Los Angeles by the end of the year.

The View

• Debut: August 11, 1997
• Creators: Barbara Walters, Bill Geddie [2]
• Producing Team: Bill Geddie (Executive Producer), B. Walters, Alexandra Cohen
• Directing Team: Mark Gentile [3]
• Hosts: Whoopi Goldberg (moderator), Joy Behar, Barbara Walters, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd

All My Children

• Debut: January 5, 1970
• Finale:September 23, 2011
• Creator: Agnes Nixon
• Producing Team: Julie Hanan Carruthers (Executive Producer), Ginger Smith, Karen Johnson, Nadine Aronson, Barry Gingold, Joann Busiglio, Enza Dolce
• Directing Team: Casey Childs, Joe Cotugno, Steven Williford ([4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]), Conal O'Brien, Angela Tessinari ([13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]), Barbara M. Simmons [19], Michael V. Pomarico, Sam Nicholson, Jen Minda
• Head Writer: Charles Pratt Jr.
• Other Writers: Daran Little, Tracey Thomson, Chip Hayes, Kate Hall, Hope Harmel Smith, Amanda L. Beall, Jeff Beldner, Addie Walsh, Joanna Cohen, Rebecca Taylor, Agnes Nixon
• Casting Director: Judy Blye Wilson; Robert Lambert

One Life to Live

• Debut: July 15, 1968
• Finale: January 12, 2012
• Creators: Agnes Nixon
• Producing Team: Frank Valentini (Executive Producer), Suzanne Flynn, John Tumino, Shelley Honigbaum, Jacqueline Van Belle
• Directing Team: Jill Ackles, Mary Ryan, Larry Carpenter, Danielle Faraldo, Bruce S. Cooperman, Tracy Casper Lang ([20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27]), Richard Manfredi ([28] [29] [30]), Jill Mitwell, Gary Donatelli, Howie Zeidman [31], Paul Glass, Teresa Anne Cicala, Alan Needleman
• Head Writer: Ron Carlivati
• Creative Consultant: Brian Frons
• Other Writers: Chris Van Etten, Anna Theresa Cascio, Shelly Altman, Janet Iacobuzio, Frederick Johnson, Gary Tomlin, Elizabeth Page, Jeanne Marie Ford, Aida Croal, Tamiko Brooks, Carolyn Culliton, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Frances Myers
• Casting Director: Julie Ann Madison

General Hospital

• Debut: April 1, 1963
• Creators: Frank Hursley & Doris Hursley
• Producing Team: Jill Farren Phelps (Executive Producer), Mary O'Leary, Mercer Barrows, Michelle Henry, Deborah Genovese
• Directing Team: Matthew Diamond, Craig McManus, William Ludel, Phideaux Xavier, Scott McKinsey, Owen Renfroe, Penny Pengra, Christine Magarian, Ron Cates [32], Peter Fillmore, Ronald C. Cates, Dave MacLeod
• Head Writer: Robert Guza, Jr.
• Associate Head Writer/Script Editor: Elizabeth Korte
• Story Consultant: Brian Frons
• Breakdown Writers: Garin Wolf, Jim Reitzel, Michael Conforti, Heidi Ploen, Sasha Cartullo, Nathan Fissel, David Goldschmid, Meg Bennett
• Script Writers: Susan Wald (playwright) [33], Michele Val Jean, Mary Sue Price, Tracey Thomson, Karen Harris, Elizabeth Korte, Garin Wolf, Michael Conforti
• Casting Directors: Mark Teschner, Gwen Hillier

Past shows on ABC Daytime

Soap operas

• A Flame in the Wind (1964-1966)
• A Time for Us
• A World Apart (1970-1971)
• The Best of Everything (1970)
• The City (1995-1997)
• Confidential for Women
• Dark Shadows (1966-1971)
• Edge of Night (1975-1984 ABC, previously on CBS)
• Loving (1983-1995)
• Never Too Young (1965-1966)
• The Nurses (1965-1967)
• Port Charles (1997-2003)
• Road to Reality
• Ryan's Hope (1975-1989)
• The Young Marrieds (1964-1966)
• One Life to Live(1968-2012)
• The Revoluntion (2011-2012)
• All My Chrildren (1970-2011)

Game shows

ABC was the first of the Big Three television networks to abandon the daytime game show, cancelling its last show, Double Talk in December 1986. It briefly returned to the format in summer 1987 with Bargain Hunters and again during the 1990-91 season with a revival of Match Game but since then has not returned. All daytime game shows (currently, only one, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) are now handled by ABC's syndication wing, Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

• The $10,000 Pyramid, later The $20,000 Pyramid (1974-1980, previously and later on CBS, also syndicated)
• All Star Blitz (1985)
• Bargain Hunters (1987)
• The Better Sex (1977-1978)
• The Big Showdown (1974-1975)
• Blankety Blanks (1975)
• Break the Bank (1976, later syndicated)
• Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (1986)
• Camouflage (1961-1962, later syndicated)
• The Dating Game (1965-1973, later syndicated)
• Double Talk (1986)
• Dream House (1968-1970, later NBC)
• Everybody's Talking (1967, later on CBS as Hollywood's Talking)
• Get the Message (1964)
• Family Feud (1976-1985, also syndicated, later on CBS)
• The Family Game (1967)
• The Honeymoon Race (1967)
• Hot Seat (1976)
• How's Your Mother-in-Law? (1967-1968)
• Let's Make a Deal (1968-1976, previously and later on NBC and even later on CBS, also syndicated)
• Match Game (1990-1991, previously on NBC and CBS, also syndicated)
• Missing Links (1964, previously on NBC)
• The Money Maze (1974-1975)
• Number Please (1961)
• One in a Million (1967)
• The Neighbors (1975-1976)
• The Newlywed Game (1966-1974, 1984, also syndicated)
• The Object Is (1963-1964)
• Password (1971-1975, previously on CBS, later on NBC)
• The Price Is Right (1963-1965, previously on NBC, later on CBS and syndicated)
• Rhyme and Reason (1975-1976)
• Second Chance (1977)
• Seven Keys (1961-1964)
• Showoffs (1975)
• Split Second (1972-1975, later syndicated)
• Supermarket Sweep (1965-1967, later on cable)
• Temptation (1967-1968)
• Trivia Trap (1984-1985)
• Who Do You Trust? (1957-63)
• You Don't Say (1975, previously on NBC, later syndicated)
• Yours for a Song (1961-1963)
• The ABC Afternoon Playbreak [34]

Ratings history

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For the 2007-2008 season, ABC was first place in Women 18-49 (1.3 rating/883,000 viewers) [Source: NTI, Live + Same Day, 2007/08 Season: 9/24/07-9/21/08]

Latest ratings

Week of December 1-5, 2008: (Last Week/Last Year)

• 1. Y&R 5,016,000 (-93,000/-630,000)
• 2. B&B 3,597,000 (-225,000/-451,000)
• 3. GH 2,853,000 (-100,000/-115,000)
• 4. DOOL 2,736,000 (+5,000/+120,000)
• 5. ATWT 2,694,000 (-121,000/-434,000)
• 6. OLTL 2,618,000 (-142,000/-43,000)
• 7. AMC 2,541,000 (-217,000/-49,000)
• 8. GL 2,011,000 (-181,000/-569,000)

List of ABC Daytime slogans

• 1960s-1980s: Love in the Afternoon
• 1987: I'll take the Romance
• 1994: Here on ABC Daytime
• 1997: Watch what Happens on ABC Daytime
• 1999: Your Great Escape
• 2007-Present: Weekdays on ABC and Weeknights on Soapnet

External links

• ABC Daytime
• Official ABC TV Store
• Disney•ABC-TV Group Talent Development
• 2008 Budget Cuts

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