<P> Guiding Light ( known as The Guiding Light before 1975 ) is an American television soap opera . It is 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 , overlapping a 19 - year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956 . Its radio and television runs taken together , 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 . </P>
<P> Guiding Light ( known as The Guiding Light before 1975 ) is an American television soap opera . It is 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 , overlapping a 19 - year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956 . Its radio and television runs taken together , 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 . </P>
when did guiding light go off the air
when did guiding light go off the air
September 18 , 2009
September 18 , 2009