The longest running tv show in the world is Guiding Light. With the show first starting on the radio, Guiding Light has been on for 72 years.
This is between radio and television. The show was canceled in 2009. Guiding Light is about a Reverend and his community in Chicago.
Guiding Light was created by Irna Phillips and Emmons Carlson and began as an NBC Radio serial on January 25, 1937. On June 2, 1947, the series was transferred to CBS Radio, before starting on June 30, 1952, on CBS Television. It continued to be broadcast on radio until June 29, 1956. The series was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour during 1968 (and also switched from broadcasting live to pre-taping around this same time), and then to a full hour on November 7, 1977. The series broadcast its 15,000th CBS episode on September 6, 2006.
On April 1, 2009, the Emmy-award winning show was taken off air due to low ratings after broadcasting more than 15,000 episodes, but it still holds a cult status of sorts in the soap opera world.
The second longest running television show in the world is The Tonight Show. The Tonight Show has had six comedian presenters and thousands of episodes. It debuted in 1954.
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