<p>teri, I join you in not having watched a daytime soap since college (hmmm, about 25 years for me as well, give or take) - but I fondly remember gathering with my pals to watch the adventures of Jenny and Greg, Angie and Jesse, Liza Colby et al. Wow. Brings back some memories, for sure!</p>
<p>This is my current FB status! I’m so sad. I have watched these shows since the beginning, off and on. I planned my college schedule around those two shows (and GH), heading over to Mr. Gatti’s for the pizza buffet so we could watch as a group. I didn’t watch much when my kids were little but picked back up several years ago when I quit my job. This is a General Hospital story, I remember coming home from school and mom crying because of the trial where Dr. Leslie took the fall for her dd Laura in a murder case. To be in college at the time the shows were centered on the college kids was great. I always wished there was some way to bring Greg and Jenny back together. To see Tad mature with me over the years has been so fun. The storylines AMC tackled – AIDS, homosexuality (those two storylines were unrelated), abortion – were ground-breaking. The storybook love of Cliff and Nina. <em>sigh</em> How I will miss AMC.</p>
<p>I AM NOT HAPPY…and I personally know people on OLTL…and have for many, many years…</p>
<p>If I had my way, I think I would make this an online series if ABC doesn’t want to broadcast…</p>
<p>My TIVO will certainly be given a rest…</p>
<p>while all of us as viewers will miss these, I really feel for the hundreds (thousands?) of people who will be out of work…and after they “shlepped” all of AMC out to LA, and reformulated the soundstage here for OLTL…</p>
<p>I was a long time viewer of As The World Turns. I truly felt a sense of loss when it was canceled.</p>
<p>The next day off I had I was appalled at the state of daytime TV. What I don’t need in my life is some celebrity telling me what my opinion should be on current events.</p>
<p>What I would really like to see is a return of good game shows!</p>
<p>In the early 80’s I worked as a media planner for a major ad agency. Everyday at lunch the (very heterosexual) VP and Creative Director would slip into my office and lock the door. No Mad Men hi-jinx, but instead a shared secret passion for the trials and tribulations of Susan Lucci on All My Children. SIGH.</p>
<p>I never watched either of these two. I was always a CBS girl and felt sad when As the World Turns and Guiding Light were cancelled, even though I hadn’t watched either one for many years. I think that all soaps will be gone in the not too distant future. They just aren’t the moneymakers they were for so long.</p>
<p>I was a big follower of AMC,OLTL & GH. Also dabbled a little in Y&R and Days of Our Lives. I remember watching on the big TV in the Student Center in college. I had been watching AMC at lunch every day up until about 6 months or so ago. Not sure why I stopped. So now I feel a little guilty that it was my fault.</p>
<p>I’ve watched AMC since my sophomore year of college - 1980! I used to work 12 hour nursing shifts, and would tape it on the VCR, come home & put my feet up to watch. Later, it got me through 2 pregnancies with 3 months of bedrest for both. To this day, I eat my lunch while watching AMC and reading the mail. It’s the only daytime tv I watch, and I will miss it. It’s like an old friend.</p>
<p>My mom watchs AMC,OLTL, and GH. She would tape them while at work and watch them back to back when she gets home. I am pretty sure she still watches at least two of them. I remember watching with her when I was little… but whenever I see it now it seems like their story lines are so far out in left field that it’s no wonder they are being canceled.</p>
<p>My mom and grandmother were fans of the CBS soaps, but when I got to college I was introduced to AMC, OLTL & GH. Sounds like many of us were. I can’t really follow any of them anymore for more than a few weeks at a time…the story lines lose my interest. I guess that’s part of the reason the genre is dying.</p>
<p>I got caught up in All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital when I was in college. A bunch of us skipped class the day Luke and Laura got married and had a viewing party in my dorm lobby. I haven’t watched a soap since college, but I know a lot of people who have kept up all those years. I remember visiting my grandmother and she would announce that it was time to watch her “stories”.</p>
<p>Speaking of soaps, one of my high school friends, Kurt McKinney, played Ned Ashton on General Hospital for two or three years in the late 80’s.</p>
<p>Rodney, I know one person from OLTL (on the production side, not one of the actors). I wonder if we both know that person. Maybe you and I have met!</p>
<p>Anyway, yes, very sad news, not only for the viewers, but also for everyone associated with the production of those two shows.</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t believe how many of my FB friends have this news as their status.</p>
<p>In all honesty, when I think of my college days, intrinsic to that experience was watching soaps, and yes, scheduling classes around them. Luckily I was at UT in the communications school and there were TVs absolutely everywhere in that building. </p>
<p>When I graduated and began working, I always did everything I could to get my lunch breaks during at least part of AMC.</p>
<p>I started watching the ABC line up in high school and watched through college and grad school. I’d tape it during the day and watch it at night…after that it was just on and off but I quit cold turkey when I stopped working to stay home with my kids 12 years ago. Still, when I read this thread and saw names like Cliff and Nina, Luke and Laura, Kurt McKinney (I remember him!), I immediately remembered them all! What about Bo, Asa and the rest of those Buchanans? I also watched Loving but, of course, we lost that years ago. Makes me sad…those soaps will be missed!</p>