The longest-running radio programme by the same host is Folksong Festival hosted by Oscar Brand (Canada, b 7 February 1920) which was first broadcast on 9 December 1945 on WNYC Radio and continues to do so today airing on Saturday evenings from 10-11pm on AM 820. Oscar has never missed a week and has been cited by every mayor of New York since the show’s inception. ‘Folksong Festival’ has also been rebroadcast all over the world, including through Armed Forces Radio.   The show was Continue reading →

It was announced in 2009 that As the World Turns (CBS, 1956–) would be cancelled by September 2010, meaning that the UK’s Coronation Street (ITV, 9 December 1960–) would become the world’s longest-running soap opera. Actor William Roache (UK) would then become the longest-serving soap actor, having debuted as Ken Barlow in episode 1. The last episode of As the World Turns aired on 17 September 2010 on CBS.

NBC’s News interview series Meet the Press (US) has been on the air since 6 November 1947 (and had originated on radio two years earlier in 1945)

The US series The F.B.I. (ABC) ran from 1965-74 and amassed an episode count of 240. The series featured adaptations of many real-life F.B.I. cases and was partly inspired by the 1959 film The F.B.I. Story.

The longest static wall sit is 11 hr 51 min 14 sec achieved by Dr. Thienna Ho (Vietnam) at the World Team USA Gymnasium in San Francisco, California, USA, on 20 December 2008. Thienna also holds the record for the most sumo squats in one hour.

The longest serving Den Mother is Adele Trapp (USA) with 53 years of service to Cub Pack 263 of the Greater New York Council Boy Scouts of America as of 26 April 2010. Cub Pack 1263 is sponsored by St. Philips Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Thomas E. Hawley of Howard, Wisconsin, USA served as Chief of Police for the City of Green Bay from 17 August 1897 to 1 June 1946, a total of 49 years. He started working for the Green Bay Police in 1893 as a Patrolman, was made captain in 1895 and chief of police in 1897. He died in 1951.

The longest seesaw / teeter totter is 24.13 m (79 ft 2 in) long and 2.82 m (6 ft 10 in) high in the middle and was created by Ashrita Furman and 12 members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre (USA) in Jamaica, New York, USA, on 27 August 2010. The see saw measured 3.53 m (11 ft 7 in) high on one side in the “up” position.

The longest single line of dancers consisted of 2,569 participants performing the “Hokey Pokey” dance and was achieved by Walkway Over The Hudson (USA) in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, on 9 June 2012. The event was broadcast live on an AM radio station from the center of the bridge. Volunteers and participants brought hand-held radios and “boom boxes” to provide a way for participants to tune in and simultaneously dance. Participants danced to a rendition of the “Hokey Pokey” created specifically for the event by Continue reading →

The longest single line of bicycles consisted of 916 cyclists in an event organized by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge 169 (USA) in Davis, California, USA, on 3 October 2010. 1,148 people were at the start, but due to the length of the route, only 916 cyclists were able to be in the line at one time.