Weekly Analysis 4 Assignment 4-1

Weekly Analysis 4
Assignment 4-1

The pop culture I have chosen for this week is soap operas. I remember being young and watching the soaps with my grandmother. At that time I didn’t like them I just was watching them because I wanted to watch cartoons after they went off. But, after a while the soaps started to grow on me.
What is a soap opera? It is a fiction story that continues on from one episode to another, usually seen on television. Soaps have been on television long enough to be recognize as soaps. The name soap opera stems from 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. They were broadcast on radio serial during weekday daytime slots, that is when the housewives could watch them and the shows were aimed at the housewives that way making it a predominantly female audiences.
Just about every woman I know watches the soaps. They are into them so until they will record it and watch it later if they work first shift. They are very easy to get hook on, if you watch it today the way they end it for that day makes you want to watch it the next day just to see what is going to happen the next day. I enjoy watching soaps, seeing whose leaving and whose coming. Back in the day soaps stayed on for 30 minutes but not the soaps that I watch stay on for 1 hour and I really enjoy that.
References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soap_operas