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* ''Pause Signal'' Danmarks Radio (DR) – {{Years or months ago|1931|08}}: This little tune first aired on August 28, 1931 and has since been used to fill up short spaces between programs. The tune is a melody from the 1300s, the oldest known Danish folk melody. Irregular scheduling, yet frequently heard for decades. Nowadays used as regular broadcast only on one channel (P5), the tune has become waiting music on DR's telephone system, and since early 2009 the signal that calls the audience to the second half of concerts in the broadcaster's new concert hall.
* ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1931|11}}: Began airing on radio in November 1931 and moved to television in November 1952 (the first year of regular television broadcasts in Canada), and is the world's longest-running sports show.
* The ''Metropolitan Opera'' – {{Years or months ago|1931|12}}: Airs a radio broadcast season each year. Although going since Christmas of 1931 (and broadcast in January 1910 over experimental radio broadcasts), unlike ''The Guiding Light'' it only airs episodes during a season and is not continuous.▼
== At least 80 years ==
* ''Julehilsen til Grønland'' (Christmas greetings to Greenland) – {{Years or months ago|1932|12}}: Danmarks Radio first aired this in 1932 as a way for people in Denmark to send greetings to friends and family in Greenland and vice versa.
▲* The ''Metropolitan Opera'' – {{Years or months ago|1931|12}}: Airs a radio broadcast season each year. Although going since Christmas of 1931 (and broadcast in January 1910 over experimental radio broadcasts), unlike ''The Guiding Light'' it only airs episodes during a season and is not continuous.
* ''CBS World News Roundup'' – {{Years or months ago|1938|03}}: Made its first broadcast on March 13, 1938 as a special report on the Anschluss; still runs every day at 8:00 AM EST. It surpassed ''Guiding Light'''s record on November 8, 2010, and is now listed as the longest continuously-running program in ''any'' medium.
* [[Superman]] – {{Years or months ago|1938|06}}: First appeared in ''[[Action Comics]]'' in June 1938. Many years, radio, TV and film spinoffs later he's still one of the most popular fictional characters ever.
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* ''Giro 413'' – {{Years or months ago|1950|01}}: Has aired weekly on Danmarks Radio (DR) since January 8, 1950 as a family program to which people donate money collected at celebrations such as wedding anniversaries and 50th birthdays. Listeners also request songs. DR in turn donates the money collected to a variety of charities.
* ''[[The Archers]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951}}: Has run since 1951 on [[The BBC|BBC radio]], and is now the world's longest-running extant [[Soap Opera]] in any medium (since the cancellation of ''[[Guiding Light]]'').
* ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951|12}}: Airing on various networks since December 1951.▼
== At least 60 years ==
▲* ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951|12}}: Airing on various networks since December 1951.
* ''[[Today]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|01}}: [[NBC]] morning news show, running daily in the US since January 1952.
* ''Tagesschau'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|12}}: The news programme has aired in the same 20:00 time slot on NWDR in Germany since Boxing Day 1952; it went to being broadcast seven days a week in 1961. The programme now serves as ARD's flagship news brand.
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