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* ''The Polka Dot Door'' (Canadian children's show, 1971-93)

* ''World Pro-Wrestling'' began in 1969 as a showcase for Wrestling/AntonioInoki's dojo in the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance on NET. Inoki's dojo became Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling in 1973 and NET became TV Asahi in 1977, and the program has only changed time slots and running times since.

* ''Radio/{{Unshackled}}'', a [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian]] RadioDrama produced by UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} rescue mission Pacific Garden Mission, has been continuously produced since 1950 and is (along with the CBS World News Roundup) one of the lone remaining shows still airing on radio from the Golden Age Of Radio.

* While by 1993 there wasn't a single member of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance that had been around since 1980, the governing body itself did not let this setback stop it from continuing on as it had since 1948, making do with granting "territories" or "rights" to use the NWA name to newer promotions. Its title belts also continued to be used by many of its former members who still respected its authority, [[BadassDecay if to a much lesser extent.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'', a well-known [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian comic]] started in 1948 and even after the creator's passing, other writers continue his work to this very day. By 2019 [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]], who had bought the NWA intellectual unit, would start promoting events directly under the NWA name.

* ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' has been airing since 1993 and has celebrated its 30th anniversary.

* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'', a well-known [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian comic]] started in 1948 and even after the creator's passing, other writers continue his work to this very day. By 2019, [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]], who had bought the NWA intellectual unit, would start promoting events directly under the NWA name.

* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'', a well-known [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian comic]] started in 1948 and even after the creator's passing, other writers continue his work to this very day. By 2019, Creator/BillyCorgan, who had bought the NWA intellectual unit, would start promoting events directly under the NWA name.

* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'', a well-known [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian comic]] started in 1948 and even after the creator's passing, other writers continue his work to this very day.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Octonauts}}'' (2010-present)

* ''Anime/PrettyCure'' (airing weekly since 2004, as well as the Manga (starts 2 months later) which releases monthly on ''Nakayoshi'' Magazine) - reached its 20th anniversary with ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure''.

* ''Maalaala Mo Kaya'' (Airs on Creator/{{ABSCBN}} since 1991. World's longest-running drama anthology as well as in Philippine television, having aired on the said TV network for 28 years)

* ''Series/{{Taggart}}'' (20+ years, longest running cop show on UK TV at the moment)

* ''Series/{{COPS|1989}}'' (second longest-running show on Creator/{{Fox}} and the longest-running RealityShow, currently on Creator/SpikeTV)

* ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' has been around since 1974.

* ''Franchise/DetectiveConan''
** ''Manga/CaseClosed'', in publication since 1994 and on the air since 1996 with 1000 episodes, 23 movies, and 100 volumes. It's still going in both anime and manga form.
* ''Series/DenAce'' (1989-present), a series of {{Tokusatsu}} shorts parodying ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': 1984-present. The manga started in late 1984 and ended in 1995, concluding with 42 volumes and 519 chapters. Three anime series totaling 508 half-hour episodes were broadcast between 1986 and 1997, the first two adapting the manga. ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', a re-edit of [[Anime/DragonBallZ the second anime]], was broadcast between 2009 to 2015. Twenty [[NonSerialMovie Non Serial Movies]] aired during this same period. After a hiatus in which the only new material was video games, guidebooks, and the ''Kai'' reedit, the series had a revival with the release of the theatrical canon film ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' in 2013 (with a script mostly written by the author of the original manga), a revival that has continued to the present. Another film, ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', followed in 2015. The same year a serialized continuation of the manga co-written by the original author, ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'', started up and soon after was running alongside a fourth anime series based on the same story, ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' which began airing in June 2015 and ended in March 2018 with 131 episodes. The movies and manga continued to come after the TV series ended, with the ''Super'' manga continuing on schedule to the present, ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' being released at the end of 2018, and an announcement for another unnamed movie to be released in 2021. There are also a number of TV specials and [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]]. Official {{Spin Off}}s like ''Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman'' may also be included.

* ''Radio/AsItHappens'' (current events and interviews program on Creator/{{CBC}} Radio since 1968)

* ''Series/MatchOfTheDay'' (UK football highlights and discussion show): started in August 1964, survived in various forms even during periods when highlights rights have gone to other channels, and now has a SpinOff series (''Match of the Day 2'', on air since the 2004-05 season) and magazine.
* ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' first aired on September 21, 1970. It aired on Creator/{{ABC}} until 2005, and has since aired on Creator/{{ESPN}}.

* ''Radio/TheShippingForecast'' has been broadcast on one BBC Radio station or another since October 1925 (except for an enforced absence caused by World War II). It's called BBC Radio 4 its home since 1978. And before the BBC broadcast it, the Met Office (i.e., the UK's national weather service) first transmitted it by radio in 1911, with a break from 1914 to 1921 (WWI and its aftermath). The service celebrated its '''150th anniversary''' in August 2017.

* ''Series/HockeyNightInCanada'' 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.

* ''WebVideo/BarneyBunch'': Started off as a trolling group on Website/{{Newgrounds}} in 2005. Moved to Platform/YouTube in 2006 and became the semi-affliliated "Speakonia Community". Despite numerous videos and accounts getting terminated, it's still going.

* The first ''VideoGame/{{Pico}}'' flash, ''Pico's School'', was made in 1999. Since then, Pico has been kept alive ([[NegativeContinuity in a]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain sense]]) as Website/{{Newgrounds}}' SeriesMascot by all sorts of Newgrounders to this day. And to think, ''Pico's School'' was inspired by '''UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}'''.

* ''Franchise/{{Doraemon}}'' started off as [[Manga/{{Doraemon}} a manga]] that ran from 1969-1996. There's the first anime series that aired in 1973 then ended in the same year due to budget issues that eventually caused the animation studio to went bankrupt. There's second and more popular anime series that lasted from 1979 to 2005. Just a month later, a third anime series started airing in 2005 with all the characters redesigned and all the voice actors were replaced. And this is before mentioning the truly staggering amount of anime films produced virtually every year since 1980,[[note]]Creator/ShinEiAnimation didn't produce a film in 2005 because they were busy pitching the new anime series.[[/note]] which hold the record as the highest-grossing film series in Japan.

* ''Series/Hollyoaks'' (British SoapOpera produced for Creator/Channel4 that has aired since January 1995.)

* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'': The manga is still in production after starting in 1986, although it has considerably slowed since Yoshiki Takaya doesn't use assistants.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' (2004-present)