Depending on how you construct that … With Colleen Zenk, Don Hastings, Elizabeth Hubbard, Kelly Menighan. The randy residents of Oakdale fire up this hour of small-town scandals and big-league betrayals, especially among the Hughes and Snyder families. Latest World news news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice As the World Turns (often referred to as ATWT) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010. The focus in on the upper class Hughes and Stewart families plus their tribulations in Midwest Oakdale. Directed by Ted Corday. As The World Turns The randy residents of Oakdale fire up this hour of small-town scandals and big-league betrayals, especially among the Hughes and Snyder families. This radio guide, really a transmission line, gets a signal from point A to point B. Turns out that it too has a meaning, "Radio Guide", though I have found some interesting alternative descriptions where the G stood for Government. As the World Turns first premiered on April 2, 1956, and has been a mainstay on CBS daytime ever since. Created by Irna Phillips. With William Johnstone, Don MacLaughlin, Santos Ortega, Rosemary Prinz. As The World Turns. The Stewarts fade away eventually to be replaced by the rural Snyders and wealthy Lucinda Walsh with her many intrigues.