At 60 Minutes we're pretty proud that we are now beginning our 42nd year on the air, but as broadcasts go, we're merely middle aged compared with the oldest established permanent floating soap opera ...

It’s been 72 years since Guiding Light first debuted on television — almost to the day! The classic CBS sudser debuted on June 30, 1952 and aired for the next 57 years until finally shutting off the ...

PEAPACK-GLADSTONE, New Jersey (AP) -- The cast and crew of "Guiding Light" -- U.S. television's longest-running soap opera -- have finished shooting their final scenes in a northern New Jersey town.

The last episode of "Guiding Light," the soap opera that has been on TV or radio for 72 years, airs at 3 p.m. today on CBS. We asked readers to send us their memories of the soap. In 1943, when I was ...

After 72 years on the air (with more than 15,700 episodes on radio and TV combined), “Guiding Light” will shine no more — at least on CBS. The Eye net informed the show’s cast and crew Wednesday that ...

NEW YORK — Friday marked the final flicker of CBS’ “Guiding Light,” as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air. The last episode took an upbeat, life-affirming ...

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded ...

PEAPACK-GLADSTONE -- Betsy Skillman leaned forward in her blue armchair this morning, placing her face a few feet from her living-room television. As she watched the final episode of her favorite soap ...

When CBS announced the cancellation of Guiding Light, the longest-running daytime drama, on April Fools’ Day, the cast and crew When CBS announced the cancellation of Guiding Light, the ...

It’s been a long and bumpy road for Guiding Light vet Beth Chamberlin, who played beleaguered Beth Raines off and on from 1989 until the much-missed soap’s cancellation in 2009. In a series of ...

NEW YORK -- Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.The last episode took an upbeat, life-affirming ...

"Guiding Light," television's longest running daytime drama, is going dark, and longtime star Kim Zimmer is in mourning. "It's so difficult to express how one feels at a time like this," Zimmer said ...