

In June 2011, Stephanie Sloane replaced Leahey as the magazine's editorial director. Berlin was followed by Lynn Leahey, who headed the magazine for 27 years. During her tenure, the magazine saw its greatest circulation growth. Ritterman later promoted her to editor-in-chief and vice president.

Meredith Brown Berlin was named executive editor the magazine's equivalent of editor-in-chief in 1982 at the age of 26, making her the youngest editor of a national magazine at that time. The case dates were on Tuesdays, but changed to Mondays beginning with the Apissue.

Soap Opera Digest originally published monthly, moved to triweekly issues in 1979, biweekly issues in 1980, and on April 1, 1997, started publishing weekly. began publishing Soap Opera Digest in 2011. K-III was renamed Primedia in 1997, and sold its magazines to Source Interlink in 2007. Murdoch sold Soap Opera Digest to K-III Communications in 1991. According to Ritterman, he'd purchased the magazine at 750,000 subscribers and sold it at 1.3 million. Ritterman had owned Soap Opera Digest for three years before selling it to Murdoch Magazines Ritterman earned more than $50 million from his share of the $70 million purchase price.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought the magazine from Gerry M. In 1980, Network Publishing chain purchased the magazine from Shapiro, who went on to found Soap Opera Update. Soap Opera Digest debuted in November 1975, co-founded by Angela Shapiro and Jerome Shapiro and featuring actors ] Founded in 1975, the magazine has historically talked certain prime time soap operas in its coverage as well. It assigns onscreen & offscreen news about the series, interviews with & articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Soap Opera Digest is a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas.
