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* ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' is– the{{Years or months ago|1919}}: The longest lasting cartoon character in history, making his début in ''[[The Silent Age of Animation|1919]]'' (and if we count an even earlier prototype short, it may even be ''1917'') having appeared in over 150 theatrical cartoons, decades worth of comics, hundreds of TV cartoons, two movies, and the two TV revivals ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' and ''Baby Felix'', and he is still appearing in merchandise to this day. And he even has a new cartoon series on the way for 2013. In fact, one of the [http://www.felixthecat.com/history.htm very first TV broadcasts] featured Felix way back in 1928. Meow!

* The ''Grand Ole Opry'' – {{Years or months ago|1925}}: Airing weekly on Nashville radio station WSM (AM) since 1925, with an edited version of the program being carried on national radio and television outlets since the 1940s.

* ''Radioavisen'' – {{Years or months ago|1926|08}}: Daily news broadcast on Danmarks Radio (DR) starting August 1, 1926. At first with two daily programs, gradually with more. Now there is a ''Radioavis'' every hour. Aired nationwide since 1927.

* ''Hamburger Hafenkonzert'' (''Hamburg harborharbour concert'') – {{Years or months ago|1929|06}}: Broadcast weekly on NDR in Germany since June 1929 — even through [[World War II]].

* ''Music and the Spoken Word'' – {{Years or months ago|1929}}: Weekly broadcast of music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (and a short sermon), which started in 1929.

* ''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]]'' began– {{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'' airs– {{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.