Only 30 Soap Fans Show Up to Protest ABC

[Brian Damage]

While inside the Avery Fisher Hall ABC brass were touting the network's new primetime schedule, outside fans of All My Children and One Life to Live protested the network's new daytime lineup, which will soon have reality series The Chew and The Revolution replace the two daytime dramas. "Save our soaps," demonstrators chanted as advertisers were filings into the Lincoln Center, although the group of a couple of dozen was far across the street, so some upfront guests confused that with "Save our shows." (ABC recently canceled several primetime series, so that would work too). The brochures distributed by the protest's organizer, SoapFansUnited.com, urged advertisers to boycott ABC and called the programs replacing the 2 soaps "glorified infomercials appropriate for late-night basic cable channels, not for a major broadcast network."



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