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These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States.
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These Are My Children
1949 American soap opera, considered the first to be broadcast on television
These Are My Children is an American television soap opera, or novella, that ran on NBC from January 31 to March 4, 1949. The show was broadcast live from WNBQ in Chicago, Illinois, airing 15 minutes a day, five days a week, at 5 p.m. EST. It is widely credited as the first soap…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Soap opera
Radio or TV serial
A soap opera is a genre of a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term soap opera originated from radio dramas' original sponsorship by soap manufacturers. The term was preceded by horse opera, a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)