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''Soap Opera Digest'' is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It features onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Founded in 1975, the magazine has historically included certain prime time soap operas in its coverage as well. ==History== ''Soap Opera Digest'' debuted in November 1975, co-founded by Angela Shapiro and Jerome Shapiro and featuring actors John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy, and Tudi Wiggins of ''Love of Life'' on its first cover. In the early 1990s, the magazine had up to 1.4 million subscribers. In 1980, Network Publishing Corporation purchased the magazine from Shapiro, who went on to found ''Soap Opera Update''. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought the magazine from Gerry M. Ritterman in 1989. Ritterman had owned ''Soap Opera Digest'' for three years before selling it to Murdoch Magazines; Ritterman earned more than $50 million from his share of the $70 million purchase price. According to Ritterman, he'd purchased the magazine at 750,000 subscribers and sold it at 1.3 million. Murdoch sold Soap Opera Digest to K-III Communications in 1991. K-III was renamed Primedia in 1997, and sold its magazines to Source Interlink in 2007. American Media, Inc. began publishing ''Soap Opera Digest'' in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=American Media, Inc. Reaches Licensing Agreement With Source Interlink Companies - news.sys-con.com )〕 ''Soap Opera Digest'' originally published monthly, moved to triweekly issues in 1979, biweekly issues in 1980, and on April 1, 1997 started publishing weekly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Soap Opera Digest )〕 The issue dates were on Tuesdays, but changed to Mondays beginning with the April 16, 2012 issue. In June 2011, Stephanie Sloane became the magazine's Editorial Director replacing Lynn Leahey, who had been with the magazine for 27 years. Meredith Berlin had been the editor prior to that. The magazine used to hold an awards show annually to promote excellence in the genre, as decided by the fans who read the magazine. The ''Soap Opera Digest Awards'' (formerly the ''Soapies'') have been held every year since 1977, and were last televised in 2000. The Soapy Award was originally designed by Janis Rogak, the magazine's then-Art Director. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Soap Opera Digest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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