TVS Pageant.Com, the 'Chick Channel' on the TV4U.Com 48 channel IPTV network, is now featuring some classic soap operas from decades past. Once again fans of Search For Tomorrow, Edge of Night, Santa Barbara, One Life to Live, A Brighter Day, and the like can relive some of the days gone by in soap operaland.
The soap opera was actually a creation of the early days of radio, when Proctor and Gamble, then a small manufacturing company in Cincinnati, wanted to sell their soap products by producing dramatic radio shows on WLWT, the Cincinnati radio station owned by broadcasting pioneer Powell Crosley. While originating in Cincinnati, Crosley was pumping out 500,000 watts of signal (10 times today's strongest AM radio stations) so the ads were being heard almost nationwide. The result was instant establishment of the Proctor and Gamble brands and the establishment of what came to be called the 'Soap Opera'.
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