List of longest-running radio programmes

These are the longest-running radio programmes – those which were broadcast regularly for many decades.

Pilots, special broadcasts and repeats after the continuous run are not counted in the primary statistic. Title changes are acceptable if the format and presentation is otherwise continuous.

The Shipping Forecast starts with "Sailing By" and the following recitation of the sea zones, which started in 1924, is now considered a traditional lullaby.[1]
The Grand Ole Opry started its weekly broadcasts as the WSM Barn Dance on WSM in 1925. The photo shows a performance in 1944.
A daily church service is broadcast by the BBC, starting in 1928.[2] For 43 years, this came from All Souls Church next to Broadcasting House.[3]

List
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ProgrammeYearsLongest serving yearsStationFirst broadcastLast broadcastNumber of broadcastsNotes and citations
Shipping Forecast 97 40 by Peter Jefferson BBC 1 January 1924 over 130,000 Shipping forecasts were first broadcast by telegraph in 1859 and the first radio broadcast in the current format was broadcast in 1924.[4][5]
Grand Ole Opry 95 64 by Stonewall Jackson WSM 28 November 1925 4,800 approx. [6]
The Daily Service 93 43 by All Souls Church, Langham Place BBC 2 January 1928 over 33,500 [2]
Music & the Spoken Word 91 41 by Richard L. Evans KSL 15 July 1929 over 4,700
Voci del Grigioni italiano 79 RSI 25 November 1941 4,000 approx. Guinness World Record: "Longest running factual weekly radio programme"[7]
Desert Island Discs 79 43 by Roy Plomley BBC 29 January 1942 over 3,200 [8]
Folksong Festival 70 70 by Oscar Brand WNYC 9 December 1945 24 September 2016 3,600 approx. Guinness World Record: "Longest running weekly radio programme (same host)"[9]
Midnite Jamboree 73 WSM 31 May 1947
Unshackled! 70 23 September 1950 over 6,500 [10]
The Archers 70 63 by June Spencer as Peggy Woolley BBC 1 January 1951 over 18,740 [11]
Farming Today 60 BBC 20 September 1960
Your Hundred Best Tunes 47 44 by Alan Keith BBC 15 November 1959 21 January 2007 2,500 approx. [12]

See also

References
  1. Alex Hudson (17 February 2012), The lull of the Shipping Forecast, BBC News
  2. Seán Street (2009), The A to Z of British Radio, Scarecrow Press, p. 89, ISBN 9780810870130, This 15-minute act of worship ... began in 1928
  3. Mark J. Cartledge; Sarah Dunlop; Heather Buckingham; Sophie Bremner (2019), Megachurches and Social Engagement, BRILL, p. 160, ISBN 9789004402652
  4. Charlie Connelly (2005), Attention All Shipping, Abacus, p. 25, ISBN 0 349 11603 2, the shipping forecast first appeared in something approximating its current format, on January 1, 1924
  5. Andy Walmsley (27 January 2015), "A Brief History of the Shipping Forecast", Random radio jottings
  6. Katie Miller (10 October 2016), "A History Of The Grand Ole Opry, The Longest Running U.S. Radio Show", Culture trip
  7. "Longest running factual weekly radio programme", Guinness World Records, 10 April 2009
  8. Desert Island Discs: Britain's longest-running radio show, Daily Telegraph
  9. "Longest running weekly radio programme (same host)", Guinness World Records, 24 September 2017
  10. Owens, John (5 April 2015). "Radio docudrama 'Unshackled' still rings true after 65 years". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  11. The Archers – Frequently Asked Questions, BBC
  12. "Your 100 Best Tunes", Radio Rewind
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