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What network did you grow up with?; CBS. ABC, or NBC?
Topic Started: Jan 3 2010, 11:05 AM (2,355 Views)
Eric83
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"Relax nobody's having sex.... at least not yet"

Of course, many of us watch soaps on different networks, but which one did you grow up with? Which one had the most relatable and appealing soaps to you? Which one has the soaps that will always live close to your heart?

For me it would be CBS. That network runs through my family. My mom loves/loved Y&R, ATWT, SFT, and GL. My grandma loved GL, ATWT, SFT, TEON, The Secret Storm, etc. My great grandma listened to ther radio soaps and loved the early days of SFT, GL, ATWT, The Brighter Day, and so many others.

I myself loved the Y&R/B&B/ATWT/GL lineup and watched all summer long. GL is the soap closest to my heart, as I was able to watch it all-year round. I came home at 2:45, fixed me a snack and sat down at 3:00 to watch. I was hooked from 1994-2005.

So what about you guys? Which network and their soaps will remain closest to you?
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cassie1013


Just Y&R and DAYS, which have always aired on the same Canadian network...also the two sony soaps, the two soaps we get a day-ahead, and therefore, later in the day. They always aired at 3 and 4PM, so I was able to watch after school.
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King
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Definitely NBC. I started with DAYS. Watched AW when RKK joined for about two years, Watched SUN through its entire run. And Passion six of the nine years!
Edited by King, Jan 3 2010, 12:50 PM.
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Drew
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For me growing up it was CBS and the Bell soaps from the family. I watched ATWT on my own in the early-mid 90s when i was home sick, and bits of the Rauch era GL.
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It was always ABC at my house. I grew up watching RH, AMC, OLTL and GH. I absolutely loved GH back in those days and couldn't get home quick enough to watch it!
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Kenny
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I grew up with CBS. My mom was a Y&R/B&B addict. My grandma watched the entire CBS lineup. When I was very little, my mom would pull the drapes closed and tell me it was nap time every day when Y&R came on. I vividly remember falling asleep to the Y&R theme on a regular basis.
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IMissAremid
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After all... tomorrow is another day!

NBC!

My earliest soap memories come from my grandma watching Santa Barbara (she had lived in Santa Barbara for a few years during WWII before coming back to Chicago and I think that's why she loved it so much... well besides Cruz and Eden) when I was over at her house.

While I got into Y&R as my first soap on my own and occasionally tuned in to B&B, I never spent the afternoon with CBS and only tuned into GL for the final epi and have never seen a full episode of ATWT. I adored Another World and started watching Days of our Lives waiting for Another World to come on. It wasn't long though before my Days love outstripped my AW love and by the time AW was canceled I had stopped watching and got into Passions when it aired. Never got into SuBe.

Never got into the ABC soaps until a couple years ago thanks to SoapNet, but my mom, who watched soaps when she was in college and when she was home with my brothers and not working when they were little but hasn't watched them much since was a total ABC soap person.
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Tammy
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I grew up with ABC... I am fairly sure I watched AMC, OLTL and GH since I was in the womb lol.
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A mix of CBS & NBC. When I was little my Mom watched Y&R, AW and Days, so when I started watching too when I got older it was those 3 that I started with originally. When SuBe came on I watched it from start to finish and when AW was canceled I started watching Passions. With Passions I watched it daily until the last couple of years when things started occurring on that show that just utterly disgusted me, that's when I started to watch it occasionally and kept up with it via spoilers mostly. I did watch the final few episodes. It was one soap that gave me great relief when it was finally put out to pasture.

I watched or with the way it is now TRY to watch Y&R on a somewhat consistent basis which is getting harder to do at times. The way it's been destructed over the past few years starting with LML especially has been so sad to watch. I've also started to watch B&B a lot more the past couple of years after being an occasional viewer for so long. GL e& ATWT are shows I never watched but would read about in SOD and SOW. I remember before subscribing to SOD when my Mom and I would be at Walmart late nights and we would take some mags to the Pharmacy section and read them, I would get most of the soap related ones and read those while my Mom was looking at whatever she looked at. That during the time when Soap Opera Update was still around.

When I started subscribing to SOD years ago I would always read about the soaps I watched but I also loved to read about AMC to see what Erica Cane was up to and started watching regularly instead of occasionally when Susan and Eden were on The View to promote the upcoming story at that time which was Bianca's rape. Now I've found myself watching OLTL late night when it's on SoapNet after AMC, where I am OLTL & Days are on at the same time during the day. I've started to watch GH a bit more now that Scott Reeves is on there but quit watching the past week and a half due to that idiotic Franco shit.

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Mason


NBC, basically. I grew up watching DAYS with my mom, and while I didn't watch either of them enough to call myself a viewer, I kinda kept up with the storylines on AW and BEACH from the promos that aired during DAYS. The next soaps I started watching (GL and ATWT) I didn't pick up until after I'd already been watching DAYS for years.
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Matt
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I was definitely an NBC kid. I stayed with my grandmother during the summers and whenever school was out and she watched NBC religiously -- Days, The Doctors, and Another World. She also watched Texas. I also think I remember my mother mentioning that my grandmother watched Somerset (and had watched AW since the very beginning). While my mother watched AW, as well (I think that's why I adore it so much -- it's the only soap all 3 of us watched), my mom watched Ryan's Hope and AMC (although she stopped keeping track of them during the 1980s). I started watching Santa Barbara and got my mother watching it. Then I started watching Y&R (talking mid-80s here) and my mom eventually got into it, too. Although I stayed pretty much NBC, Mom shifted from Y&R to B&B (she followed Sheila and Lauren) and she and I both moved to ATWT when AW was cancelled and, consequently, GL. However, I'll always remember growing up and watching the NBC soaps. My grandmother was a big Mac/Rachel & Doug/Julie fan until she passed in 1984.
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juniorz1
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I was definitely an NBC fan, all the way. My mom started watching 'Days of our Lives' in 1966 and 'Another World' soon followed. She avidly followed those two shows and watched 'The Doctors' when it was on NBC. She got my grandmother into DAYS in the late 70s (though my grandmother never watched AW or any soap besides DAYS). I was born in 1979 and I remember watching 'Days of our Lives' and 'Another World' as early as 1982. My mom also tried the nap time trick during DAYS & AW and it worked in the beginning, but after the 1 day she let me stay up, I insisted on watching DAYS and AW every day. She also watched Texas when it was on, and I remember it some, though I never really knew the characters there like I did on DAYS & AW. In 1983 I believe, Search for Tomorrow moved to NBC. My other grandmother followed that one since the beginning, so I added it to my repertoire. Unlike Texas, I got into SFT and especially loved Hogan McCleary & Sonny Adamson (played by David Forsyth & Marcia McCabe, Chris Goutman's wife).

Santa Barbara premiered in 1984 and neither me nor my mother watched it at first. But my Aunt got hooked on it and tried to get my mom to watch. My mom eventually ended up checking out an episode- Kelly Capwell's wedding to Joe Perkins. At the reception, Cruz & Eden shared a now infamous (to SB fans) dance that had my mom entranced. She was immediately hooked, but I hated it because I didn't know the characters (I'd been spending my days with Marlena, Roman, Stefano, Liz, Neil, Alice, Tom, Bo, Hope, Pete, Melissa, Tony & Anna and Mac, Rachel, Donna, Michael, Vicky, Marley, Felicia, Cass, Cecile, Kathleen, & Wallingford for 3 years now). Plus, SB was on at the same time as He-Man.

Then we discovered it on the Canadian station at 4 PM and I was immediately hooked. The first episode I remember watching was when Gina pulled the plug on CC's life support and set up Eden for the crime. I was immediately obsessed with Marcy Walker. SB very quickly became my favorite soap. It helped that I never missed it at first because of the timeslot, so I could watch it year-round. By the time it moved to it's 9AM timeslot, we had a VCR and at age 7, I learned how to program that shit so I could watch AW, DAYS, and especially SB every day. Those were the days.

Even after SB was cancelled, I checked out SUN a few years later and sort of got into it. And after AW was yanked, I watched 'Passions' some, though I mainly watched for Tabitha & Timmy. I certainly never got into it because it was good soap, that's for sure.

Though I loved all my soaps and my old lineup, I do think it's fitting that 'DAYS' is the one NBC soap standing. IMO, DAYS was always the one that had the more universal appeal, hence the only one that all 3 generations of my family watched. I hope their ratings continue to hold strong and DAYS is on the air for years to come. I know it's going to really hurt my heart when it's eventually gone, and affect me in a way that no soap cancellation before it (even SB) has. When you have watched something like that for 27 years and have memories of watching it with relatives and people that have long passed or left your life, all of that comes flooding back when a show goes, especially a soap. With DAYS it will be like losing a (several) member(s) of the family.
Edited by juniorz1, Jan 3 2010, 09:45 PM.
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cassie1013


^ Interesting take, Kenny. DOOL is more "my" soap, too, even though my mom and a lot of my family is more into Y&R (cousins and grandmother watch DOOL, though).

The thing I find interesting looking back, though, is that from a much younger age - say like, 6 years old - I liked Y&R more because I could understand the business aspect of the stories. My family also ran businesses, so I'm sure that helped some. DAYS was a bit of a turn off because I couldn't rationalize the stories - competing cosmetics companies made sense, but being possessed by the devil? Could not figure that out for the life of me, lol! So much on DAYS was irrational - like Stefano and Hope being locked up, tooth chips, Princess Gina - I was like "WTH"?
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Hmm, let's see.

The afternoon nap trick happened to me as well while my mom watched Days and Y&R. I got into Days pretty instantly and never really got into Y&R as a kid. However, for some reason, whenever Jess Walton was on screen she always got my attention. I forget the year it happened but Global started showing Days at 3:30 pm and since then I had started to watch on a regular basis, even with school going on. Before then I would always read the TVGuide summaries.

Since then I've watched all the soaps, including Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Home and Away for some periods at a time.

Currently I only watch OLTL everyday and catch ATWT on commercials. If something really amazing happens on ATWT, like Brad's death, I'll make sure to catch it online or at the 4:00 pm viewing. With Days I'll watch a couple episodes week.
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I grew up with NBC,I watched DOOL,Sunset Beach for about 2 years and PASSIONS all nine years,it was only Jan.2008 that I started watching ''One Life To Live'' when I got sick of Days.
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WTGH
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Bitch!

I started with DAYS and PSNS some 10+ years ago. I liked PSNS more than DAYS, eventually I drifted to other shows, and found As the World Turns, and it's been my favorite show ever since.

It's the one closest to my heart and I'll probably weep when it's gone... :(
Edited by WTGH, Jan 4 2010, 10:50 PM.
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DeeDee
RIP GL

CBS & ABC.
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ABC

I never really got into watching NBC or CBS soaps. Well I do like Y&R and B&B (even tho it's terrible) but mostly I have always been most interested in One Life.
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I have no memory of my Mom and sister watching RH and AMC as they stopped when I was in preschool. One of my babysitters watched Days, but other than the hourglass I can't recall that show except that the whole family watched so it was taped and then when different siblings got home they would start again with the show. My neighbors who sometimes watched me were GH people.

When I started watching soaps on my own, I was an NBC person: Days, AW, Santa Barbara. The show that is closest to my heart is GL, but it is also the one that broke it the most due to the amount of garbage that went on with it. SIGH I have watched just about every show, but to share the entire show evolution thing would take way too long...as I went from show to show from pre-teen to teen.
Edited by ~bl~, Jan 6 2010, 07:49 PM.
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JSE
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NBC, my favorite Aunt and Grandmother were big NBC fans. NBC's lineup was the best, Days at 1:30, The Doctors at 2:30, Another World at 3:00. Somerset came on at 4:00, but I don't really remember it all that well. Then Luke and Laura happened and NBC's lineup suffered the most.

My other Grandmother was a big CBS fan. She lived in the south, and many southerners, in my experience, seemed to always go for the CBS soaps.
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