The New York Times found it remarkable that the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square—previously the Mormon Tabernacle Choir—has broadcast its weekly show of inspiration and music with the same “recipe” for 5,000 straight weeks since 1929, the paper reported Tuesday.
The show, “Music & the Spoken Word,” is the world’s longest, continuously running network broadcast. And it’s not close.
For scale, the Times noted that “Saturday Night Live,” in its 50th year, hasn’t hit 1,000 episodes, and “The Simpsons” has reached just 790.
“We view the choir as a global asset of the church,” choir president and former Utah Gov. Michael O. Leavitt told the Times, which noted that he is seeking to grow the choir’s global reach and digital audience for its sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It’s the public jewel of the church,” said Elder Matthew S. Holland, a General Authority Seventy and executive director of the Church Communications Department. “This is the front end of a decade where we hope the world will discover who we really are.”
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