Editing Golden Age of Radio (section)

=== Soap operas ===
The first program generally considered to be a daytime serial drama by scholars of the genre is ''[[Painted Dreams]],''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cox|first=Jim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPlPfU9KSGMC&pg=PA171|title=Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas|year=2005|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6523-5|language=en}}</ref><ref name="hummert">{{cite book|last=Cox|first=Jim|title=Frank and Anne Hummert's radio factory: the programs and personalities of broadcasting's most prolific producers|publisher=McFarland|year=2003|isbn=978-0786416318}}</ref> which premiered on [[WGN (AM)|WGN]] on October 20, 1930.<ref name="hummert" /> The first networked daytime serial is ''[[Clara, Lu, 'n Em]]'', which started in a daytime time slot on February 15, 1932. As daytime serials became popular in the early 1930s, they became known as [[soap opera]]s because many were sponsored by soap products and detergents. On November 25, 1960, the last four daytime radio dramas—''[[Young Dr. Malone]]'', ''Right to Happiness'', ''The Second Mrs. Burton'' and ''[[Ma Perkins]]'', all broadcast on the [[CBS Radio Network]]—were brought to an end.