Agnes Nixon

Описание: Broadcast Pioneer Agnes Nixon is from the Main Line community of Rosemont, but it was in Llanview, the fictional town near Philadelphia, that Nixon’s fertile imagination took root. In Llanview, One Life to Live began more than 45 years ago. In addition to One Life to Live, Nixon, often called the Queen of Soap Operas, created the long-running programs All My Children and Loving. She served as the Executive Producer or Consulting Producer on these series for decades.

After the success of One Life to Live, she created All My Children, which for the show’s first seven years was a half-hour series. None of those half-hour broadcasts are known to exist today. When ABC wanted to expand the show, Nixon’s deal was that the network would start recording and archiving the programs. In 1976, the programs started to be recorded and the broadcast went to a full hour the next year.

In 2005, Nixon appeared on All My Children as Agnes Eckhardt (the name she was born with). It was the show’s 35th anniversary. She also appeared on the last televised episode of One Life to Live as Agnes Dixon (correct spelling), the creator of an axed soap opera.

Nixon also served as the head writer for other landmark programs including Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, and Another World. She created another fictional locale in 1983 for ABC. The program was called Loving and was set in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Corinth. That program ran until 1997.

Many are appropriately called “Broadcast Pioneers” but few have amassed the groundbreaking achievements recorded by our Broadcast Pioneer colleague Agnes Nixon. Bravo.