CBS ended a historic chapter in daytime television.

The soap opera "Guiding Light" is switching off after a 72-year run that predates television. CBS says the show will air its final episode Sept. 18. Like most daytime dramas, "Guiding Light" has ...

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded ...

Bad news for soap fans. Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in radio and television history, airs its last episode today, "after more than 15,000 episodes, at least 65 Emmy awards and too ...

CBS says “Guiding Light” will end in September after 72 years on air. The end of the show is just one example of soap operas’ steady decline in popularity. No networks have yet agreed to broadcast ...

Lee Lawson, best known for her long-running role as Bea Reardon on the soap opera "The Guiding Light," died on May 22 at the age of 80. Lawson played Reardon on the CBS soap from 1981 to 1990. The ...

After 72 years on the air (with more than 15,700 episodes on radio and TV combined), “Guiding Light” will shine no more — at least on CBS. The Eye net informed the show’s cast and crew Wednesday that ...