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A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

The Guiding Light

Posted by: Karen Fishman

This blog post was written by Matt Barton, curator of the Recorded Sound Section. On September 18, 2009, The Guiding Light ended a television run that began June 30, 1952, and a broadcast history that began on radio on January 25, 1937.  The show’s run covered 72 Thanksgivings in all, but as we’ll see, the …