 WFTY also picked up the ABC soap opera "Ryan's Hope" after WJLA-TV (Channel 7) dropped it in 1986, with Channel 50 running the final years of the program.The station was airing mostly religious programs, infomercials, low-budget (but copyrighted) movies, and a few off-network dramas by 1988.Ratings were very low, in addition to the programming costs.