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== At least 70 years ==
* ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1942|01}}: Has been airing on BBC Radio since 29 January 1942, making it the longest-running program in the history of British broadcasting. It still uses the original theme tune, Eric Coates' "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (with overdubbed seagull noises), and has only had four regular presenters (Roy Plomley, Michael Parkinson, Sue Lawley, Kirsty Young).
* ''[[Meet the Press]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1945|11}}: Weekly on television since November 6, 1947; debuted on radio in 1945 as ''American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press''.
* ''Arbeidsvitaminen'' (''Work vitamins'') – {{Years or months ago|1946|02}}: A music programme on AVRO in the Netherlands. The longest running daily radio show in the world, having started in February 1946.
* ''Sports Report'' on [[The BBC|BBC Radio]] – {{Years or months ago|1948}}: Running since 1948, still uses its original [[Ear Worm]] of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv_idtcK1-E theme tune.]
* ''[[Guiding Light]]'': 72 years, 7 months, 26 days (57 of those on television), from January 25, 1937 to September 19, 2009. It ''was'' listed in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the longest continuously-running program on any medium, in any genre, until the ''CBS World News Roundup'' broke its record in November 2010. It would take a listener [[Archive Panic|over eighteen months, 24 hours a day, to listen to it from beginning to end]] (although the large number of [[Missing Episode]]s from the first 40 years would make such an archive binge impossible). It may be the largest single work of fiction in human history.
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