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 ...

CBS is pulling the plug on the soap opera “Guiding Light” after a 72-year run that predates television, the show a victim of the economy and changed viewing habits. The drama’s final episode will air ...

Today marks the eightieth anniversary of the birth of a cultural sensation that would outlast almost every other piece of broadcast media from its era: a soap opera called Guiding Light. The show ...

The light from Springfield that has been a comforting beacon to millions of Americans goes out for good today. Local fans of “Guiding Light,” the longest-running drama in television and radio history, ...