The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

The Beano is now the longest-running weekly comic, since The Dandy became a fortnightly comic in 2007.

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The Katzenjammer Kids is still distributed by King Features, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication and the longest-running ever.

The film is considered to be the longest-running release in film history.

Roger is currently the second longest-running character in the Beano, behind only Dennis the Menace.

William Roache has played Ken Barlow continuously from 1960 on the British soap Coronation Street, which is also the longest-running television soap in the world still in production.

The show's popularity eventually declined and it was moved to the 6. 30 p. m. slot in 1992, yet the series retains consistent viewing figures in Australia and is still running today, making it Australia's longest-running soap opera.

Greece's second longest-running soap is Kalimera Zoi ( Goodmorning Life ).

The longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television is Istories Tou Horkou ( Villages Stories, 1996 – 2006 and 2010 – 2011 ) ( CyBC ) which was premiered on March 1996 but was canceled on June 2006.

Although this utopian experiment is better known today for its manufacture of Oneida silverware, it was one of the longest-running communes in American history.

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers is the longest-running academic conference on the subject of wearable computers.

Smith's longest-running role is voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons.

* May 30 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in Latin American history.

* January 4 – The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world Last of the Summer Wine is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

It is believed that this game is the longest-running on-line game, having begun July 4, 1989.

The longest-running series of books to feature Tom Swift is the first, which ran for 40 volumes.

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

It is the longest-running Broadway production of this play at 157 performances.

Archie Comics is also the title of the company's longest-running publication, the first issue appearing with a cover date of Winter 1942.

It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings November 28, 1925, as a one-hour radio " barn dance " on WSM-AM.

Dixon is also home to the May Fair, which is arguably the longest-running annual fair in the state of California.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

We know that the number of radio and television impulses, sound waves, ultra-violet rays, etc., that may occupy the very same space, each solitary upon its own frequency, is infinite.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

Radio is easily outdistancing television in its strides to reach the minority listener.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

The Rutherford films are frequently repeated on television in Germany, and in that country Miss Marple is generally identified with Rutherford's quirky portrayal.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

It attracts competitors from all of the main show jumping nations and is carried live on Irish national television.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

Audio broadcasting ( be it for television or audio broadcasting ) is perhaps the biggest market segment ( and user area ) for audio processing products — globally.

Analog ( or analogue ) television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the information to be transmitted, the brightness and colors of the points in the image and the sound waves of the audio signal are represented by continuous variations of some aspect of the signal ; its amplitude, frequency or phase.

Each frame of a television image is composed of lines drawn on the screen.

In many countries, over-the-air broadcast television of analog audio and analog video signals is being discontinued, to allow the re-use of the television broadcast radio spectrum for other services such as datacasting and subchannels.

That concept is true for all analog television standards.

A color television system is identical except that an additional signal known as chrominance controls the color of the spot.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.