Subscription Based Soap Opera's
@cyberasst10usa (7)
United States
May 26, 2011 5:55pm CST
I hate the fact that All My Children is going off the air! I've been watching since day one, when I was in school, and now it's going off! I wish some studio or network would pick up the canceled soaps and produce the shows on the web. We would pay a subscription fee monthy or yearly to have access. What do you think, would you pay to see your favorite soap?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 May 11
NO, I wouldn't, but I would consider a write in campaign now before it's too late to try and get them to reconsider.
@cyberasst10usa (7)
• United States
27 May 11
Would you be willing to pay an minimal amount, like $10-15 a month? Considering the story lines were better and they would listen to consumer input. Also, what if we were able to have access to a few different soaps or maybe all the soaps for that price. That would be less than .50 cents a day.
@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
2 Jun 11
I think that's a pretty good idea, really. What I would like to see is a kind of soap "mega-site" with as many past episodes of current and canceled shows available as possible plus new episodes as they're made. I think it'd be difficult to launch such a site for a number of different reasons, though. For the old shows, you'd have to pay royalties to various entities just for the rights and you'd also have to go through the effort to encode and upload many older episodes online for the first time. For new shows, you'd have to bear the cost of producing new episodes. Given how dedicated soap fans can be, though, I think such a site might bring in a surprisingly amount of revenue if the subscription cost isn't too expensive. Hopefully we'll see that kind of site one day, but it may come too late to save any of the recently canceled shows.
