Does anyone know?

Question

the name of the very first soap opera, who created it, when, and where it aired?

Answer 1

Faraway Hill was the first soap opera broadcast on an American television network, running on the DuMont Television Network from October 2, 1946 to December 18, 1946. David P. Lewis, the writer and director, had a budget of around $300 an episode. For many years "A Woman to Remember" was considered the first soap opera, but actually debuted in 1949.

There were other soap opera's before Faraway Hill, but these were all radio shows which began in the 1930's but died off after the 1950's when the television became the mainstream entertainment medium.

Answer 2

Radio soap operas began in Chicago in 1930 when WGN broadcast the fifteen minute drama Painted Dreams, about the trials of an Irish-American widow and her daughter. By the start of World War II there were dozens of popular soap operas. The first concerted effort to air continuing drama on television occurred in 1946 on the DuMont television series Faraway Hill. Soap operas were introduced to network television in 1949, with NBC's short-lived These Are My Children, followed by NBC's Hawkins Falls in June 1950 and CBS's two year run of The First Hundred Years in December 1950. Two long-running soaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera