A soap opera is an ongoing television or radio serial (usually sentimental or melodramatic) about family and everyday life and aimed at housewives. Originally it was cleaning products company Procter and Gamble that subsidised one of daytime radio programs for housewives.

Soap Opera - TV or radio series on family and domestic topics for housewives(usually sentimental melodramatic character), originally, one of the daytime radio programs for housewives was subsidized by soap and detergent company called Proctor&Gamble