Recently, the network aired a kiss between a lesbian couple in one of its soap operas.
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Its television station transmits the programmes of Globo, which produces Brazil's most popular soap operas.
This tale is worthy of one of the soap operas for which Brazil is famous.
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Assimilating Latinos craved something more than its staple of telenovela soap operas and Mexican movies, we said.
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Turns out "Phoebe" was the name of a character from one of her mother's favorite soap operas.
Our key players, August III (The Third) and August IV (The Fourth), have personalities suited for daytime soap operas.
The exception was daytime TV, which began cranking out soap operas, targeting housewives.
For 53 years, RCTV has been part of Venezuela's culture, offering the public, comedies, soap operas, and game shows.
Mr. Rao notes that Brazilians like to use social media while watching TV, in particular soccer matches and soap operas.
Mrs Philpott said she watched TV soap operas with Jade and Duwayne and they went to bed about an hour later.
Female inmates at an Arizona jail take turns on a stationary bike to power their TV to watch their favorite soap operas.
The company spent the next three years trying face-lifts, experimenting with on-line soap operas and blurbs about cool kids, to no avail.
In Manhattan, for example, cable TV viewers were able by mid-afternoon to tune back in to their favorite soap operas on WABC.
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The cold turkey scene has cropped up in films like Trainspotting and soap operas like EastEnders, where a parent uses so-called "tough love".
In the U.S. viewers with satellite television can watch its soap operas, game shows and reality programs like India's take on American Idol.
The BSC, which monitors TV standards, wants a fuller understanding of viewers' attitudes towards soap operas to help it deal with viewer complaints.
Turkish soap operas have edged out Latin American ones in popularity.
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Steven Murphy says that all soap operas have their peaks and troughs, but feels that Emmerdale has been ahead of the game for some years now.
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"Soap operas, which used to be the stuff of afternoon television, have moved upstairs and now run at night under the guise of newsmagazines, " Hewitt said.
Along with much of the rest of the population, they are watching commercial television, which uses the same slots to screen wildly popular Turkish-produced soap operas.
In terms of the soap operas that her appearance so evocatively recalls, she seems to be more the hapless Sue Ellen Ewing than the scheming Alexis Carrington.
Awareness of fashions and brands is still largely shaped by the nightly soap operas broadcast on terrestrial television and watched by an audience of tens of millions.
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The setting is Hanmouth, a fictional location in Southwest England, where along the outskirts of town exist a population of violent, work-shy, welfare-dependent scroungers pacified only by soap operas.
It meant many people had to turn off their TV during their beloved evening soap operas, street lights were dimmed and firms shortened shifts in order to save energy.
Allowing East Germans to watch American soap operas on West German television, for example, seems to have acted as a form of pacification that actually reduced people's interest in politics.
This rule holds true in other areas of broadcasting: consider the mundane domesticity of most British soap operas, in contrast to the aspirational, glitzy lifestyles portrayed by their American counterparts.
Daytime TV, including live talk shows such as "The View" and soap operas, which typically tape about a week's worth of shows in advance, would be next to feel the impact.
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