Ronald David Carlivati (born November 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for his tenures as head writer on the ABC Daytime soap operas One Life to Live and General Hospital . He served as head writer for the Peacock soap opera Days of Our Lives until his departure in July 2024.
21-479: It was announced in the February 27, 2007, edition of Soap Opera Digest that Carlivati was promoted to Co-Head Writer of One Life to Live alongside Dena Higley . On June 4, 2007, Frank Valentini announced that Carlivati would be promoted to head writer effective immediately. The first episode with Carlivati as Head Writer aired September 11, 2007. Due to One Life to Live' s cancellation on ABC, and later
42-417: A guest capacity, the other three became contract cast members. When copyright issues intervened, dictating that the show could not use the characters of Starr Manning, Todd Manning, and John McBain; the three actors under contract at the time were recast as Kiki Jerome, Robert "Franco" Frank, and Silas Clay. In addition to casting the former One Life to Live actors shortly after his arrival, Carlivati also made
63-472: A point of re-introducing a wide variety of fan favorite veterans to the canvas, including Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio) Genie Francis ( Laura Spencer ), Lynn Herring ( Lucy Coe ), Finola Hughes ( Anna Devane ), Sean Kanan ( A.J. Quartermaine ) and Kin Shriner ( Scott Baldwin ) for extended runs. Many of them helped make the 50th anniversary a success during the aforementioned transitional absence of
84-851: Is an American soap opera writer for the Daytime television serial The Young and the Restless . She was NBC Daytime's director of daytime programming. She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Dayton . As the World Turns Days of Our Lives Sunset Beach The Young and the Restless This article about a television writer from the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an American screenwriter
105-537: Is said to be "effective immediately". Carlivati's first credit as head writer began on July 19, 2017. On July 19, 2024, it was announced Carlivati had departed the soap as head writer, with his material to air until April 2025. Paula Cwikly and Jeanne Marie Ford were named as his successors "effective immediately". Carlivati was born in Rochester, New York , and attended McQuaid Jesuit High School . After graduating high school in 1986, Carlivati attended College of
126-596: The $ 70 million purchase price. According to Ritterman, he'd purchased the magazine at 750,000 subscribers and sold it at 1.3 million. Murdoch sold Soap Opera Digest to K-III Communications in 1991. K-III was renamed Primedia in 1997, and sold its magazines to Source Interlink in 2007. American Media, Inc. began publishing Soap Opera Digest in 2011. Soap Opera Digest originally published monthly, moved to triweekly issues in 1979, biweekly issues in 1980, and on April 1, 1997, started publishing weekly. The issue dates were on Tuesdays, but changed to Mondays beginning with
147-453: The April 16, 2012 issue. 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. Ritterman later promoted her to editor-in-chief and vice president. She stayed in that position until 1991. During her tenure, the magazine saw its greatest circulation growth. Berlin
168-619: The Holy Cross for undergraduate studies and later went to George Washington University for graduate school, earned a Juris Doctor degree, and currently lives in Manhattan . He is openly gay. Soap Opera Digest Soap Opera Digest was a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas . It featured onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Founded in 1975,
189-694: 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 was similarly designated SHIFT rather than under 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)
210-572: The WGA strike was settled, Carlivati returned as headwriter, with his post-strike episodes hitting the air waves on May 2, 2008. On June 20, 2008, Carlivati and his writing team won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for his work on OLTL . With the end of One Live to Live 's television run in January 2012, Carlivati joined the writing team at General Hospital . Following
231-406: The contracted actors brought over from One Life to Live . On July 24, 2015, ABC announced their decision to replace Carlivati as head-writer of General Hospital with Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante . On January 23, 2017, Carlivati was announced as the newly appointed head writer for Days of Our Lives , replacing former co-head writers Dena Higley and Ryan Quan. Per reports, this change
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#1732800818259252-576: The end of One Life to Live in January 2012, Carlivati was appointed head writer of General Hospital , and his material began airing towards the end of February. In an effort to bring over fans of One Life to Live , who were now without a soap to call their own, Carlivati brought over Kristen Alderson ( Starr Manning ), Kassie DePaiva ( Blair Cramer ), Michael Easton ( John McBain ), Roger Howarth ( Todd Manning ) and Florencia Lozano ( Tea Delgado ) to bring their signature roles to General Hospital . While DePaiva and Lozano only appeared in
273-416: The magazine had up to 1.4 million subscribers. In 1980, Network Publishing Corporation purchased the magazine from Shapiro, who went on to found Soap Opera Update . Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation bought the magazine from Gerry M. Ritterman in 1989. Ritterman had owned Soap Opera Diges for three years before selling it to Murdoch Magazines; Ritterman earned more than $ 50 million from his share of
294-461: The magazine historically included certain prime time soap operas in its coverage as well. Soap Opera Digest debuted in November 1975, co-founded by Angela Shapiro and Jerome Shapiro and founding Editor Ruth J Gordon and featuring actors John Aniston , Ron Tomme , Audrey Peters , Birgitta Tolksdorf , Jerry Lacy , and Tudi Wiggins of Love of Life on its first cover. In the early 1990s,
315-493: The magazine, including Beverly Hills, 90210 ( 90210 ), Melrose Place ( MP ) and Dynasty ( DYN ). Soap Opera Digest 's 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 's average circulation per issue, per year. Paula Cwikly Paula Cwikly
336-498: The show experienced a creative resurgence, receiving great critical acclaim for revitalizing characters, routinely incorporating and honoring the show's long history, and improving dialogue. However, the show's ratings continued to slide, a problem that all daytime soap operas have been experiencing in recent years. Carlivati's work aired until February 14, 2008, when the WGA strike forced a new headwriter ( Gary Tomlin ) to take over. Once
357-401: The show's abandoned transition to online distribution via production company Prospect Park , it was announced on December 1, 2011, that Carlivati would be taking over as head-writer on ABC's one remaining soap, General Hospital effective January 9, 2012. The first episode with Carlivati as head writer aired February 21, 2012. In the months that followed Carlivati's promotion to head writer,
378-464: 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
399-485: Was followed by Lynn Leahey, who headed the magazine for 27 years. In June 2011, Stephanie Sloane replaced Leahey as the magazine's editorial director. The magazine used to hold an awards show annually to promote excellence in the genre, as decided by the fans who read the magazine. The Soap Opera Digest Awards (formerly the Soapies ) have been held every year since 1977, and were last televised in 2000. The Soapy Award
420-420: 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
441-614: Was originally designed by Janis Rogak, the magazine's then- Art Director . Berlin and Ritterman earned a handful of Daytime Emmy Award nominations, with Dick Clark Productions, for co executive producing the Soap Opera Digest Awards. On October 27, 2023, it was announced a360media would cease production of the physical weekly publications. The magazine currently continues to update content on its website, and announced its intention to print "special print issues" at least four times per year. Soap Opera Digest coined
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