Editing Soaps In Depth (section)

== Editions ==
=== ''CBS Soaps In Depth'' ===
First published in early 1997, at the time print publication ceased, ''CBS Soaps In Depth'' had focused only on the CBS soaps ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]'' and ''[[The Young and the Restless]]''. Previously, ''[[Guiding Light]]'' and ''[[As The World Turns]]'' were covered as well before their respective cancellations (in 2009 and 2010). Each issue also included a special section for ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', brief news coverage, previews, and recaps for ''[[General Hospital]]'' and ''Days Of Our Lives''. When the CBS edition debuted, each issue cost $2.99. By the publication's closure, the CBS edition cost $3.99 American and $4.50 Canadian.

=== ''ABC Soaps In Depth'' ===
First published in February 1997, this magazine focused on the ABC soaps at that time (''[[All My Children]]'', ''[[The City (1995 TV series)|The City]]'', ''General Hospital'', and ''[[One Life to Live]]''). One month after the release of the debut issue, ABC cancelled ''The City''; ''ABC Soaps In Depth'' later coverage began on its replacement, ''[[Port Charles]]'', when the ''General Hospital'' spin-off premiered in June with coverage of ''PC'' continuing until the series was cancelled in 2003. The ABC edition also includes news coverage, previews, and recaps for the CBS soaps and ''Days of our Lives''. The magazine initially cost $2.99 per issue, with occasional issues sold at a discount to $1.00; beginning in 2003, each issue cost $3.99.

After the cancellations of ''AMC'' and ''OLTL'' in 2011 and 2012, respectively (leaving ''GH'' as the ABC's only remaining daytime soap, a status it maintains to this day), the ABC edition began to also include brief sections for NBC's ''Days of Our Lives'' and the CBS soaps.

=== ''NBC Soaps In Depth'' ===
''NBC Soaps In Depth'' focused its coverage on [[NBC Daytime]]'s soap line-up, then consisting of ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'', ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'', and the fledgling ''[[Sunset Beach (TV series)|Sunset Beach]]''. Two of the soaps covered by the NBC edition were cancelled within a span of several months during 1999: NBC first cancelled the long-running ''AW'' to make room for the in-house production ''[[Passions]]'' and subsequently canned ''Sunset Beach'' due to low ratings (electing to replace it with ''Later Today'', a lifestyle talk show developed as an extension of ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]''); although the network continued to maintain two serials thereafter (until ''Passions'' moved to [[Audience (TV network)|The 101 Network]] in 2008 to accommodate a [[Today with Hoda and Jenna|fourth hour of ''Today'']], leaving ''Days'' as NBC's only remaining serial), the consequence of NBC Daytime's drastic moves led Bauer Publications to determine a separate NBC-focused magazine was no longer feasible.

Coverage of ''Days of our Lives'' and, until its cancellation, ''Passions'' (consisting of news and feature articles, previews, and recaps for each show) was folded into the ABC and CBS editions; at the time ''Soaps in Depth'' ended print distribution, ''Days'' received more coverage in the ABC edition, as ABC itself only has one soap opera remaining on its daytime schedule (''General Hospital'').