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 said a reported published 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…