''Soap Opera Weekly'' was a weekly magazine covering American daytime

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s. It featured onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Launched in November 1989 by

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with Mimi Torchin as editor-in-chief, ''Weekly'' began as a sister magazine to ''

Soap Opera Digest ''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 in ...

''. News Corporation sold the magazine to K-III in 1991. K-III was renamed Primedia, and sold its magazines to

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in 2007. American Media, Inc. took over Source Interlink's soap magazines in 2011; ''Soap Opera Weekly'' ceased publication in 2012.AMI folds 'Soap Opera Weekly'
''Adweek''. April 10, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2015.

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