You mentioned the soaps; I admit to some schadenfreude when Les Moonves was canned at CBS for sexual harassment.
His wife, Julie Chen, persuaded him to cancel “As The World Turns” and “Guiding Light” because she wanted her own talk show similar to “The View”. She got her wish with her show “The Talk”, which includes the vile leftist Sara Gilbert as one of the panelists.
At the time of its cancellation, “Guiding Light” was the oldest TV show in US history. It originally aired on the radio before the advent of Television. “As The World Turns” was the second oldest.
CBS cancelled two venerable soaps just because Moonves’ wife just had to have her own show featuring ignorant cackling hens.
Behar was bleeped for quoting Trump but Whoopi was adding her own profanity.
My great grandmother (who died in the early 1950s) listened to the soaps on the radio and I wonder if Guiding Light was among her favourites. Family story about her was that she had gone away for a few days to visit people and as a result, missed a few episodes. When she came back and listened to catch up, she remarked on how she really did not miss that much, lol.