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== At least 80 years ==
* ''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}}: First appeared in [[Action (comics)|Action]] in 1938. Many years, radio, TV and film spinoffs later he's still one of the most popular fictional characters ever.▼
* ''The National Research Council Time Signal'' – {{Years or months ago|1939|11}}: Heard at 1:00 PM EST every day since November 5, 1939 on the CBC radio network.▼
* ''Julehilsen til Grønland'' (Christmas greetings to Greenland) – {{Years or months ago|1932}}: 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.▼
* ''Hamburger Hafenkonzert'' (''Hamburg harbour 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.
▲* ''Hamburger Hafenkonzert'' (''Hamburg harbour concert'') – {{Years or months ago|1929|06}}: Broadcast weekly on NDR in Germany since June 1929 — even through [[World War II]].
▲* ''Julehilsen til Grønland'' (Christmas greetings to Greenland) – {{Years or months ago|1932}}: 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.
* ''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.
▲* ''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}}: First appeared in [[Action (comics)|''Action'' comics]] in 1938. Many years, radio, TV and film spinoffs later he's still one of the most popular fictional characters ever.
▲* ''The National Research Council Time Signal'' – {{Years or months ago|1939|11}}: Heard at 1:00 PM EST every day since November 5, 1939 on the CBC radio network.
== At least 70 years ==
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