How did soap operas get their name?!
Question: I mean, no one sings, and there's hardly ever any soap. :O
Answers: I mean, no one sings, and there's hardly ever any soap. :O
The French playwrite Moliere wrote an opera about soup, but the translater accidentally wrote "soap." In the 1930s this opera was broadcast incessantly. Through sheer repetition the American public fell in love with this soap opera. To pick up the same audience, broadcasters called their shows soap operas.
Weren't they traditionally sponsored by soap companies and they can be mellodrmatic
cause they all need their mouths cleaned out with soap
When they were aired on the radio they were sponsored by ads from soap companies to appeal to the housewives who listened.
they were sponsered by soap companies
Because a long long time ago Soap/detergent co. sponsered the shows and it just stayed with the name.
Sponsered by soap companies a long time ago!
This is a direct quote from Wikipedia:
The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers as the show's sponsors.[1] These early radio serials were broadcast in weekday daytime slots when mostly housewives would be available to listen; thus the shows were aimed at and consumed by a predominantly female audience.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera
Interesting :)