What is "guiding light"

n. A person who has a profound influence on others and is a source of inspiration and admiration.

n. a celebrity who is an inspiration to others; "he was host to a large gathering of luminaries" [syn: luminary, leading light, notable, notability]

Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. Guiding Light is the longest running soap opera and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program Grand Ole Opry (first broadcast in 1925), the BBC religious program The Daily Service (1928), the CBS religious program Music and the Spoken Word (1929), and the Norwegian children's radio program Lørdagsbarnetimen (first aired in 1924, cancelled in 2010) have been on the air longer.

Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. On June 2, 1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30, 1952, on CBS Television. It continued to be broadcast concomitantly on radio until June 29, 1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968, and then to a full hour on November 7, 1977. The series broadcast its 15,000th CBS episode on September 6, 2006.

On April 1, 2009, it was announced that CBS canceled Guiding Light after a 72-year run due to low ratings. The show taped its final Procter & Gamble scenes for CBS on August 11, 2009, and its final episode on the network aired on September 18, 2009. On October 5, 2009, CBS replaced Guiding Light with an hour-long revival of Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Wayne Brady.

On August 22, 2013, Grant Aleksander, who had portrayed Phillip Spaulding on Guiding Light from 1983 through the series finale in 2009, revealed in an interview with Carolyn Hinsey that former Guiding Light executive producer Paul Rauch had been working on a continuation of Guiding Light at the time of his death in December 2012.

The Guiding Light (TGL) was a long-running radio series which became the longest-running American television soap opera.

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The Guiding Light (TGL) (known since 1975 as Guiding Light) was a long-running American television soap opera. __TOC__

The Guiding Light (GL) (known since 1975 as Guiding Light) was a long-running American television soap opera.

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The Guiding Light (GL) is the longest-running American television soap opera. This article covers the show in the 1980s.

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The Guiding Light (TGL) is currently the longest-running American television soap opera.

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The Guiding Light (GL) is the longest-running American soap opera. __TOC__

Not to be confused with the Muse song on the album The Resistance.

"Guiding Light" is the fourth single by The Veils, first one under Rough Trade label. It is also the first result of the band's work with producer Bernard Butler. " Death & Co." is an edited version about 30 seconds shorter than the original from the previous year single.