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* ''[[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.
* ''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.▼
== 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.
* ''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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* ''[[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.
== At least 60 years ==▼
* ''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.
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s theatrical play ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|11}}: Has been running on the West End since November 1952, pausing only for seven months in 2020 because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].
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* The Major League Baseball ''Game of the Week'' – {{Years or months ago|1953}}: Ran on various networks from 1953–93; has aired on FOX since 1996.
* ''Brain of Britain'' – {{Years or months ago|1953}}: Britain's longest-running quiz program in any medium, began as a segment of ''What Do You Know?'' on BBC Radio in 1953, and has been a standalone program on Radio 4 since 1967. It has only had three regular presenters: Franklin Engelmann from 1953–72, Robert Robinson from 1973-2008, and Russell Davies since 2009.
▲== At least 60 years ==
* ''Face the Nation'' – {{Years or months ago|1954}}: Airing weekly on CBS since 1954.
* ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1954}}: Airing on NBC since 1954.
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* ''[[University Challenge]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1962}}: On ITV from 1962-87 with Bamber Gascoigne, and on BBC2 since 1994 with Jeremy Paxman; British television's longest-running quiz show.
* Ireland's ''The Late Late Show'' – {{Years or months ago|1962|07}}: Since July 1962, has only had three regular presenters (Gay Byrne (1962–99), Pat Kenny (1999-2009), Ryan Tubridy (since 2009)). Not to be confused with the American ''[[The Late Late Show]]'', which has "only" been running since 1995.
== At least 50 years ==▼
* ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1963}}: The books began appearing in 1963. New ones were being published as late as 2011.
* ''[[General Hospital]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1963}}: Over 10,000 episodes since 1963; inspired a [[Novelty Pop Hit]] ''General Hospi-Tale''.
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1972+1965-1956}} years: 1956–65, then since 1972; originally hosted by Bill Cullen {1956-65}, then Bob Barker {1972-2007}, then Drew Carey {2007-}
▲== At least 50 years ==
* ''Letter From America'' – 58 years: On [[The BBC|BBC Radio]] from 1946-2004, ending when Alastair Cooke retired less than a month before his death.
* ''Horizon'' – {{Years or months ago|1964}}: The BBC pop-science programme has been running since 1964.
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* ''Marketplace'' – {{Years or months ago|1972|10}}: Consumer advocacy program on CBC-TV, loathed by manufacturers nationwide since October 1972.
* ''[[Mastermind]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1972|10}}: British quiz show airing since September 1972; from 1972-97 on BBC1 with Magnús Magnússon, 1998-2000 on BBC Radio 4 with Peter Snow, 2001-02 on Discovery with Clive Anderson, and 2003–present on BBC2 with John Humphrys
* ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1973|03}}: Over twelve thousand episodes from 26 Mar 1973 to June 1, 2021... and counting.▼
== At least 40 years ==
* ''The Las Vegas Folies Bergère'' – 49 years: One of the original Las Vegas showgirl extravaganzas, inspired by the original ''Folies Bergère'' in Paris, it opened in 1959 at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino and closed a few months shy of what would have been its 50th anniversary in 2009.
▲* ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1973|03}}: Over twelve thousand episodes from 26 Mar 1973 to June 1, 2021... and counting.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1974}}: Has been around since 1974.
* ''[[NOVA]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1974}}: PBS science program produced by WGBH-TV Boston, airing since 1974
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* The comic ''[[Urbanus]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1982}}: Since 1982.
* ''Waratte Iitomo!'' – {{Years or months ago|1982|10}}: A live-broadcast Japanese variety show, has been on the air since October, 1982. There has only been one host throughout its entire run, who holds a Guinness world record for longest continued hosting of a live television program.
* ''Legends in Concert'' – {{Years or months ago|1983}}: A celebrity impersonator revue, opened at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV in 1983 and ran there until 2009—when it moved next door to Harrah's Hotel and Casino and picked up where it left off. Sister productions in Atlantic City, NJ, Branson, MO, and Myrtle Beach, SC have all had decade-plus runs; the latter two are still performing.▼
== At least 30 years ==
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' – 39 years: The original theatrical series ran from 1930-69. In that period it went through various directors, animators, producers, and not to mention characters. And that's not counting the various spin-offs, revivals, and movies. It didn't even stop for the [[World War II|darkest days of war]] as it had [[Wartime Cartoon#Warner Brothers|a duty]] to fulfill.
▲* ''Legends in Concert'' – {{Years or months ago|1983}}: A celebrity impersonator revue, opened at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV in 1983 and ran there until 2009—when it moved next door to Harrah's Hotel and Casino and picked up where it left off. Sister productions in Atlantic City, NJ, Branson, MO, and Myrtle Beach, SC have all had decade-plus runs; the latter two are still performing.
* ''[[Young Wizards]]'' - {{Years or months ago|1983}}: Series of [[Young Adult Literature|Young Adult]] [[Urban Fantasy]] novels by [[Diane Duane]]
* ''[[Family Feud]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1999 +1995-1988+1985-1976}} years: (airing since 1976 on ABC {1976-85}, CBS {1988-94}, NBC {2008 specials}, and syndication {1977-85, 1988–95, 1999-)
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* ''[[X Japan]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2007 + 1997-1982}} years ago: 1982-1997, with a long pause due to disbandment from 1997-2007.
* ''Shortland Street'' – {{Years or months ago|1992|05}}: is Television New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, first aired on May 25, 1992 and still going strong (as of early 2010).
== At least 20 years ==▼
* ''Donahue'' – 29 years: (1967-70 as a local series, then nationally until 1996)▼
* ''Love of Life'' – 29 years: (7,315 episodes from 1951–80)▼
* ''[[Mr. Dressup]]'' – 29 years: Canadian children's show, 1967–96.▼
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' - {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1993}} years (began in 1993), with nearly 1,000 episodes plus three films as of 2021.
* ''Talk Soup'' and ''The Soup'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2004 + 2002-1991}} years: ''Talk Soup'' ran from 1991-2002. Its successor, plainly titled ''[[The Soup]]'' has been airing since 2004.
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** ''[[Smack Down]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: Which has been airing regularly since late 1999.
* The following [[Cirque Du Soleil]] troupes:
** ''[[Mystere]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1993}}: (opened in 1993 at Las Vegas' Treasure Island Hotel and Casino; longest nonstop run. Current contract expires in '''2016'''.{{when}})
▲== At least 20 years ==
▲* ''Donahue'' – 29 years: (1967-70 as a local series, then nationally until 1996)
▲* ''Love of Life'' – 29 years: (7,315 episodes from 1951–80)
▲* ''[[Mr. Dressup]]'' – 29 years: Canadian children's show, 1967–96.
* The following [[Cirque Du Soleil]] troupes:
** ''[[Alegria]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1994}}: (1994–98, then as a resident show at a casino in Biloxi, MS from 1999-2000, then resumed touring in 2001; relaunched as an arena show in mid-2009)
** ''[[Quidam]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: (1996-2010 as a tent show, 2010- in arenas)
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