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The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: ABC woos soap fans from its Olympic rival |
 | | NBC's wall-to-wall coverage of the Summer Olympics which began Friday night and extends across the network and its many cable channels is forcing several adjustments to the network's regular programming, as it has during past NBC Olympics coverage. |
 | | ABC hopes the absence will allow the Walt Disney Co. network to steal away NBC's soap-opera fans, jonesing for a fix of daytime drama in the two weeks when their stories are interrupted. |
 | | Network soap operas have chugged along fairly consistently since at least June 30, 1952, when "Guiding Light" debuted on CBS, making it the longest-running drama in television history. |
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