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Painted Dreams is the first soap Opera. It was broadcast on radio from Chicago from October 1930 to July 1943.

Faraway Hill was the first televised soap opera broadcast on Dumont Network's New York station from October to December 1946.

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1955 First TV soap launches, The Grove Family

Named after the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, The Grove Family is Britain's first ever soap for adults. It shows a lower-middle-class couple who'd worked hard to build a home for themselves and their family after the war and are just beginning to feel comfortably off after years of hardship. By the end of the year, The Groves will have built up a following of nearly 9 million people, a quarter of the population

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As far as television Soap Operas go, Proctor and Gamble produced the first television soap opera in 1950. It was called The First Hundred Years, but ironically only ran for two years. See related link below for more information.

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soap opera was made by the American press in the 1930's to describe the extraordinary popular soaps.

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Coronation Street debuted in 1960 & continues today [as of January 2017]

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Wrong answer. The first TV soap opera in the US was FARAWAY HILL, began in 1946 on the DuMont network.
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DOOL is the 61st soap opera, TV, US. 1965 beginning.

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