earned a handful of Daytime Emmy Award nominations, with Dick Clark Productions, for co executive producing the Soap Opera Digest Awards. "Soap speak" acronyms Soap Opera Digest coined the term and popularized the use of "soap speak," in which show names are abbreviated as acronyms to save space. These abbreviations have come into more extensive use outside the magazine with the advent of internet chat rooms and message boards. For example, current soap operas and their acronyms include General Hospital (GH), The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B), and The Young and the Restless (Y&R). Days of Our Lives is referred to as DAYS in the magazine, though the acronym DOOL is sometimes used elsewhere; General Hospital: Night Shift is similarly designated SHIFT rather than an acronym. Abbreviations used for now-defunct series include All My Children (AMC), Another World (AW), As the World Turns (ATWT), The Edge of Night (EON), Guiding Light (GL), Love of Life (LOL), One Life to Live (OLTL), Port Charles (PC), Ryan's Hope (RH), and Search for Tomorrow (SFT). The now-defunct series Sunset Beach (1997–1999) was known as BEACH to differentiate it from the previously cancelled series Santa Barbara (1984–1993), which itself had been referred to as SB. Other past series with single-word titles (like Capitol, Loving and Passions) had fully capitalized identifiers, while not typically abbreviating their titles in-reference. Prime time soap operas have also been attributed with acronyms and abbreviations in the magazine, including Beverly Hills, 90210 (90210), Melrose Place (MP) and Dynasty (DYN). Circulation Soap Opera Digest circulation has declined over the years, reflecting both a decline in soap opera viewership and a decline in magazine circulations in general. A 40 percent decline in 2003 was due to eliminating reduced-rate subscriptions. This is a list of Soap Opera Digest average circulation per issue, per year. 2016: 123,000 2019: 71,406 2022: 48,274 See also Soap Opera Magazine Soap Opera Update Soap Opera Weekly Soaps In Depth References External links Magazines about soap operas Magazines established in 1975 Magazines published in New York City Weekly magazines published in the United States