While some providers removed Soapnet upon the launch of Disney Junior, the channel continued to operate, but its operations were wound down. In later years, Soapnet increased its focus on acquired reruns of drama series.ĭue in part to a general decline in the soap opera genre as a whole, and the growing adoption of digital video recorders, cable/satellite video on demand, and streaming video options making its primetime soap encores increasingly unnecessary on a traditional linear network, Disney announced in 2010 that Soapnet would be replaced by the new preschool-oriented network Disney Junior, which launched in March 2012.
Soapnet also broadcast programming related to soap operas, including news and behind the scenes programs. The network's programming was oriented towards the soap opera genre on launch, Soapnet carried primetime encores of ABC's current soaps, as well as reruns of classic daytime and primetime soap opera series. Disney Junior (Original) Soapnet (stylized as SOAPnet) was an American basic cable and satellite television channel that was owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company.
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