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Radio daytime drama serials were broadcast for decades, and some expanded to television. These dramas are often referred to as "soaps", a shortening from "soap opera".That term stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers as sponsors [1] and producers. [2]
BBC Radio's The Archers, first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. [8] ... which canceled the show one year later. There were plans to ...
The following is a list of soap operas that have been broadcast in various countries, ... Blue Hills (radio serial) 1949–1976: Autumn Affair: 1958: The Story of ...
The future of long-running Australian soap opera “Neighbours” is in question following its cancellation by ViacomCBS-owned U.K. broadcaster Channel 5. The soap, produced by Fremantle and now ...
Except for Live with Kelly and Ryan, Times Square took over their remaining soap, all ABC syndicated and lifestyle shows. [7] On October 30, 2014, The View talk show was transferred into Lincoln Square Productions , an ABC News subsidiary, from ABC Entertainment after struggling in ratings and a change in hosts.
Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. Guiding Light aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio between January 25, 1937, and June 29, 1956. [1]
Waggoners' Walk was a daily radio soap opera, set in the fictional cul-de-sac of Waggoners' Walk and its environs in Hampstead, north London. It was broadcast daily on BBC Radio 2 from 1969 to 1980, in the form of 15-minute episodes on weekday afternoons with a repeat the following weekday morning. The programme came to a sudden end in May 1980 ...
The show's creator and producer Merv Griffin did not wish to change the show's format making Bolen commission a new game show from Griffin, Wheel of Fortune, which debuted on January 6, 1975, and was an immediate ratings hit; Jeopardy! would later be revived in 1984. Bolen departed NBC Daytime in Spring 1976 while it was still #1 to form her ...