of that genre is now out of work or will be soon, erica kane. this is huge. but it is huge. i m showing my age a little bit. i remember when erica kane was an ingenue and it was katherine chancellor on the young and the restless and the edge of night and another world. my grandmother would sit there and watch soap operas all the time. pretty hard to believe it s happening. you see what brought down soap operas? what killed soap operas? o.j. simpson. really? really where it started and this is fascinating. in 1969, that was the the height of soap operas. you had 19 of them on at one time in daytime. in the 1990s you were down to like nine or ten of them but still getting great viewers. still getting 6 million to 7 million viewers per day and then the o.j. simpson trial took place and it dominated daytime tv. it was a real soap opera involving somebody we all know and love and so it was unbelievable, and that shift of viewership from the soaps to the o.j. simpson trial at
i remember when erica kane was an ingenue and it was katherine chancellor on the young and the restless and the edge of night and another world. my grandmother would sit there and watch soap operas all the time. pretty hard to believe it s happening. you see what brought down soap operas? what killed soap operas? o.j. simpson. really? really where it started and this is fascinating. in 1969, that was the the height of soap operas. you had 19 of them on at one time in daytime. in the 1990s you were down to like nine or ten of them but still getting great viewers. still getting 6 million to 7 million viewers per day and then the o.j. simpson trial took place and it dominated daytime tv. it was a real soap opera involving somebody we all know and love and so it was unbelievable, and that shift of viewership from the soaps to the o.j. simpson trial at a time when there was alternate programming coming up on cable tv was the death of soaps. they went then from this 6