Guiding Light Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in "Guinness World Records" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, "Guiding Light" is the longest running soap opera before "General Hospital" and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program "Grand Ole Opry" (first broadcast
Soap opera included "Goede tijden, slechte tijden" (1990–present), "Onderweg naar Morgen" (1994–2010) and "Goudkust" (1996–2001). In 2016 "Goede tijden, slechte tijden" spin-off "Nieuwe Tijden" started airing. U.S. daytime serials "As The World Turns" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" have aired in the Netherlands; "As the World Turns" began airing in the country in 1990, with Dutch subtitles. In the 1980s, West German networks successfully added American daytime and primetime soap operas to their schedule before Das Erste introduced its first self-produced weekly soap with "Lindenstraße", which was seen as a German counterpart to "Coronation Street". Like in other countries, the soap