Soap operas are the foundation of American television storytelling — and their roots sprouted right here in Chicago. From its early radio days in the 1930s to streaming today, soaps have endured ...

A Chicago woman created soap operas. And a Chicago woman is keeping them alive. First, let me introduce you to Irna Phillips. She revolutionized television and hardly gets enough credit. Born in ...

Discover the real-life couples who found love on the set of soap operas, from Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on 'All My ...

Per Britannica, “The soap opera began in the early 1930s with 15-minute daytime radio episodes and was inherited by television in the early 1950s and expanded to 30 minutes.”. You can hear a ...

The War Department, of all people, put on a soap opera last week. Aimed at the countless devotees of radio's endless "strip shows," it was unusual only in its subject matter and its ...

MOORE: And then there's one soap that made the transition from radio to television, and that is the "Guiding Light" in 1952, and then it went off the air on CBS in 2009. SIMON: Nowadays, of course ...

Radio may have had such mass appeal because it was an excellent way of uniting communities of people, if only virtually. ... It marked the advent of the soap opera, ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natalie Moore about the legacy of soap operas. She is host and writer of "Stories Without End," the new season of the WBEZ podcast "Making." ...