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SOAPnet will go dark to make way for Disney Junior - Newsroom - 27-05-2010 Reason to panic, daytime drama fans? Disney ABC/Television Group announced today that it will pop the bubble on SOAPnet in January 2012 to make way for Disney Junior, a new 24-hour cable/satellite channel devoted to preschool children. In making the announcement, Disney Media Networks Co-Chair Anne Sweeney said the decision to shutter the cable channel was "not arrived at lightly," but that new viewing patterns have all but deemed the network obsolete.</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> More...