Soap opera. A soap opera, or simply a soap, is a serial drama, on television or radio, that features related story lines dealing with the lives of multiple characters.
The stories in these series typically focus heavily on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.[1] The name soap opera stems from the fact that many of the sponsors and producers of the original dramatic serials' broadcast on radio were soap manufacturers.[2] Origin of the genre[edit] The first national radio soap opera was Clara, Lu and Em, which aired on the NBC Blue Network at 10:30 pm on Tuesday, January 27, 1931.
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