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* ''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.
* ''[[w:National Research Council Time Signal|The ''National Research Council Time Signal'']] – {{Years or months ago|1939|11}}: HeardCanada's longest-running radio show, heard at 1:00 PM ET every day since November 5, 1939 on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] radio network.
* ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1942|01}}: Has been airing on [[BBC|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).
 
== At least 70 years ==
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