Satellite TV offers some of the most diverse networks and programming in all of TV. Between sports, news, comedies, movies, music, international, educational, and sitcoms, you will find something for everyone to enjoy. Satellite TV even has SOAPnet, a network dedicated specifically to airing soap operas all day, every day.

SOAPnet, which is owned by Disney, launched in 2002. 24 hours a day you will find episodes from current and past soap operas, as well as movies. This is convenient for people who work during the time that their favorite soap operas are on, and for people who want to watch full episodes, seasons, and even series of soap operas that were on in the past and have been cancelled.

On other channels, soap operas generally air in the afternoon, which means they are inconveniently times for those who work during the day. To make the shows more available for those who worked during the day, SOAPnet originally aired soap operas in the morning and evening, and only ABC soap operas. The shows included current hits, cancelled shows, and nighttime shows such as All My Children, General Hospital, One Life to Live, Ryan’s hope, Port Charles, and Falcon Crest.

In 2005, SOAPnet began to expand their shows by airing past dramas in addition to soap operas. This included top hits such as 90210 and Melrose Place, both from Fox Network. Reruns of other dramas such as One Tree Hill and O.C. began airing in 2007. Over the years, other top soap operas have been syndicated on SOAPnet, such as Guiding Light, Young and the Restless, and As the World Turns.

In 2007, the extremely popular General Hospital had a spin off created after it, General Hospital: Nightshift, which aired on SOAPnet. Immediately the show became one of the network’s highest rated programs, as 1 million people tuned in to see what would happen in the spin off of one of their favorite soap operas.

The addition to the programming schedule over the years has allowed SOAPnet to reach broader audiences, especially once they started airing on satellite TV. To even further expand their audience, they began SOAPnet’s Sunday Night Movie, airing a different movie each Sunday night at 10 PM. Movies aired include mainly romantic comedies and dramas such as My Girl, Heathers, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, It Could Happen to You, Roxanne, Only You, Fools Rush In, Jerry Maguire, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Hitch, Sleepless in Seattle, Something’s Gotta Give, and Fun with Dick and Jane.

You might not think that many women of today have much time to lounge around in front of the television during the day and watch all of the day time soaps that are on so many of the major networks. However, their ratings show that this is evidently not the always the case. Although the first airing of the soaps are during the day on the major networks there is another channel that airs them at night and they are dedicated solely to soap operas and other serial shows that women love.

What is the big attraction that some women have to these television programs? If they are stay at home moms and have kids in school during the day, it might be the only time they have to sit down and relax and enjoy a few television shows. They might be an older lady that stays at home whose children are already grown and moved out of the home. There are a lot of ladies that enjoy these shows and probably for different reasons.

After all, who would not like to watch the incredible exciting lives that the soap stars portray in the imaginary existence? They have as many lovers as they want, they remarry repeatedly until they get it right or not and they can even come back from the dead a time or two and look just as incredible as they did beforehand. They get to have a lot of money and travel to exotic places and wear the greatest looking clothes, cars and homes. They lead the most seemingly enjoyable lives filled with all sorts of intrigue. It might be be fantasy of many women to get to live like this.

Perhaps it is just because of all of the reasons mentioned that they enjoy these soaps so much. Perhaps they do not have the opportunity in their lives to have very much fun and adventure. One thing is for sure, they never will have any adventure other than that they watch on the television as long as they are sitting there on the sofa. Perhaps if they got outside into the real world and try to drum up some excitement of their own, they would have better things to do than be such big fans of people who only lead imaginary lives. No disrespect intended to the soap opera because they are entertaining, but there is nothing more entertaining than enjoying a real life.