“Thank you” to the NYT’s Patrick Healy for sharing what his longtime affection for “One Life to Live” has personally meant to him in his life. And, thank you too, Michael Fairman, for sharing Healy’s eloquent message, similarly resonant with meaning in the lives of so many millions of OLTL fans nationwide. We, as in our family and friends are continuing our boycotting of ALL THINGS ABC and Disney for their having canceled “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.” In response to these cancellation policy decisions, decisions made by Disney’s Robert Iger and ABC’s Anne Sweeney and Brian Frons, evidence is emerging suggesting that ABC is witnessing half of the Daytime audience fan base fleeing its network programming entirely, as some acutely perceptive observers (i.e. including among others, the acutely prescient Robin Strasser, et al.) many months ago had well predicted would be the tragic outcome. In an honorable business culture, these three individuals would have already committed a form of corporate “hari kari” for having offended and injured as many parties as they have through their rank incompetence, poor business decision making, and despicable treatment of their customers/loyal viewers of many decades duration. And, moreover, for their manifest classless crude abuse, deception, and disrespect they rained on the ever talented casts and crews of “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.” Iger, Frons, and Sweeney are disgraces to the honorable traditions that have historically prevailed in the American entertainment and broadcasting industries, and the latter Ms. Sweeney in having been complicit to the extreme in Mr. Frons’ notorious in the public record, chronic repeated ageist and sexist conduct, is a disgrace to the American womens movement that tragically paved the opportunity for her; powerfully witness her wrecking operations in a Bain Capital-like looting fashion of a great American storytelling genre birthed by writer Agnes Nixon that sustained primetime programming on this country’s networks for decades. Moreover, the three of them, Iger, Sweeney and Frons went on to replace such iconic American classics (and their millions of LOYAL daytime viewers) with junk programming a la The Spew and The Revulsion in further debasing the American contemporary television medium. Shame on the three of them and let damn be done! ABC/Disney: Release the rights now being held “hostage” to those shows and allow another network or cable provider to bring these shows back to their audiences. For once, do the right thing and cease your contemptuous conduct toward your customer base that is inimical to every sound contemporary business practice. Begin, then, to advertise ABC in a positive public light. Or perhaps better that Disney “do you” (Karma) as you did unto others, and denigrate and humiliate, and sell you off at a fire sale…now, there’s an idea….why, thank you Fortune Magazine….

SORRY TYPO ONE LIFE TO LIVE

OLTL literally saved my life on one occasion when I was contemplating ending it. When I was weighing the options, pills counted out and ready to go, a single thought popped into my head-“But what will happen on OLTL?” I replaced the sleeping pills in their bottle, and went to bed. This is the power of soap opera in full effect. OLTL helped me come out of the closet (at the same time as Billy Douglas) helped me deal with health issues and depression, and helped me have just one hour per day where I didn’t have to worry about my own problems because, let’s face it, the ones in Llanview were so much more interesting than my own mundane existence.

I am so lost without OLTL. I feel like part of my extended family is missing. I have watched it since grade school with my Mom and now was watching it with my three daughters. OLTL was my escape on a daily basis. You could laugh, cry or scream at the tv if you wanted because of the storylines. That was my theraphy. We don’t need anymore reality shows, talk shows on tv. I keep hoping that ABC will see what a huge mistake they made aInd bring back the soaps. Or that another network will pick them up once they release the right back to Agnes Nixon! They need to do the right thing! They are losing viewers and their rating are dropping on a daily basis. I would say putting the soaps back on is a win/ win situation. We get our soaps back and they get there viewers back! So wake up ABC! DO THE RIGHT THING!

Please someone do the right thing for everyone and give us back our soaps and give the cast and everyone back their jobs who worked on the shows.

I miss OLTL so much ABC made a huge mistake and i will never support them again only General Hospital.I hope Anne Sweeney is proud of how well the revolution is doing but are we really surprised OLTL is one of a kind it cant be replaced.

I am a Huge Fan of Both One Live To Life & All My Children. I want to say that myself along with the other fans of the shows Want Our Soaps Back! We Never wanted those replacement shows and We Refuse To Watch Them! Please someone help us to get our beloved soaps back! We Miss OLTL & AMC daily!

ABC really screwed up. OLTL & AMC pulled in double viewers than the replacement shows. We the fans will view other stations until OUR SOAPS, OLTL & AMC return to tv. I am one of the fans that hate ABC now.

Mr. Healy expressed well just why OLTL (and other soaps) are so important to us and why we grieve deeply when they’re taken from us. I can easily relate to how soap characters “speak” for us sometimes with various life experiences and can even help us sort out our feelings; help determine or influence our pathways so we can face (hopefully resolve) issues we’re facing ourselves–be it individually, in our families, or in community.

I was new to OLTL, having tuned in for only a year or so following the cancellations of my lifetime favorites at CBS in 2009 and 2010. But I did become very fond of certain OLTL characters and yes, Vicki was one of them. She was indeed the matriarch and heroine of Llanview. Erica’s portrayal was always brilliant and we all looked forward to her lighting up the screen– no matter what she was given to do. She never failed to deliver with finesse, too!

Soaps have helped America learn about and deal with some very real-life issues. I recall how well daytime dramas over the years have spoken to subjects like domestic violence, alcoholism, dementia, cancer, diabetes, racial prejudices,and gay rights issues. As a society, we’ve been compelled to consider these matters more seriously perhaps than we ever would have before….thanks largely to soaps! Their demise is proving to be a great loss .

Yes, I know. Movies of course, have over the years “delivered” too, for their audiences…providing many equally good, encouraging, motivational messages, but they’re over with in a matter of an hour and a half at best. Soaps however, were there for us five days a week….faithfully for years and years and years. So many of us grew up with them always available and even when we couldn’t tune in every single day, we knew that we could STILL have them ready for us another day. Our favorite characters would be waiting for us nonetheless. We could draw from their strengths, relate to their weaknesses,etc.. We received great courage seeing them each day.

Now? … we don’t have them. Indeed, we as viewers have all in essence “lost family” with these cancellations.

I am almost 63 years old, have watched AMC and OLTL since they first aired. AMC I go back to the days of Phil and Tara . I can’t recall the name of Vicki’s sister, on OLTL, I beleive it was Meridith and a young Dr. I really miss both of these soaps. I work during the day but recorded them for many years. ABC took away a part of my daily life stytle. It brought tears to my eyes during the last month of airing for both of these soaps, bringing back characters from the past…I truly am sad and can’t seem to move on. The only soap I continue to watch is GH..which I go back to the days of Dr. Hardy..the Luke and Laura story line….miss the good ole days..:(