Soap Opera Digest

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blogs on soap operas. This week I am going to talk about the well-known magazine of Soap Opera Digest.
The Soap Opera Digest is a magazine that covers every American daytime soap opera that airs on television. It is an overview of the actors on and off camera. You will learn about what the actors are doing on the screen, during shows, behind the scenes, and even what is going on in their personal life. Because really, what star’s personal life don’t we know about?
The magazine first came about in November of 1975, it currently boasts a subscription sale of around 500,000 as well as more than one million issues bought at newsstands and supermarkets each week. Statistics show that in the early 1990s the magazine had up close to 1.4 million subscribers. Lynn Leahey is currently the editor-in-chief for the magazine and columnist Carolyn Hinsey reviews current series and soap-related events in her regular feature “It’s Only My Opinion”.
I can honestly say that I have never actually read this magazine nor subscribed to it. I’m not saying that it is a bad magazine or anything by any means. Clearly it can’t be that bad with all of the high ratings and subscribers it has had in the past. But the real meaning behind the magazine seems to be letting you know what is up and coming in your favorite soaps. Wouldn’t this just ruin what you are about to see. From what I have heard and see is that it lets you know what is coming up in the next month and to me if you have read it, it would then be silly to actually spend the time each day to sit down and watch the show if you know what is going to happen. I don’t know, that may just be me, but I think I would either have one or the other. Either sitting and watching my show faithfully everyday or subscribing to the magazine and reading it ahead of time. To me, you are getting the same thing out of it either way. It’s just redundant I think, to be reading it and then watching it a week or two later.