Soap opera largely aired soap opera reruns, began to be phased out in 2012 and fully ceased operations the following year. The Daytime Emmy Awards, which honor soap operas and other daytime shows, moved from primetime network television to smaller cable channels in 2012, then failed to get any TV broadcast at all in 2014, 2016, and 2017. Several of the U.S.’s most established soaps ended between 2009 and 2012. The longest-running drama in television and radio history, "Guiding Light", barely reached 2.1 million daily viewers in 2009 and ended on September 18 of that year, after a 72-year run. "As the
Soap opera Shoots, He Scores"), "Loving Friends and Perfect Couples" and "The City". The "Degrassi" franchise of youth dramas also incorporated some elements of the soap opera format. On French-language television in Quebec, the "téléroman" has been a popular mainstay of network programming since the 1950s. Notable téléromans have included "Rue des Pignons", "Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut", "Diva", "La famille Plouffe", and the soap opera parody "Le Cœur a ses raisons". Unlike the season based production in most countries, most of Indian television fiction tends to be regular-broadcasting soap opera. These started in the late 1990s, as more and