Coronation Street

Coronation Street is Britain's longest-running television soap opera, and the UK's consistently highest-rated show. It was created by Tony Warren and first broadcast on the ITV network on Friday December 9, 1960. The working title of the show was Florizel Street, but Agnes, a tea lady at Granada Television, Manchester, (where Coronation Street is produced) remarked that "Florizel" sounded too much like a disinfectant. Jubilee Street was another option considered.

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Britain - Television - Soap opera - Tony Warren - ITV - December 9 - 1960 - Granada Television

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Coronation Street (nicknamed Corrie or the street, or, less commonly, Coro or Corra and even Corruption Street) is set in a fictional street in the fictional industrial town of Weatherfield which is based on Salford, now part of Greater Manchester (a Coronation Street does exist in Salford). Its principal rival soap operas are ITV1's Emmerdale and BBC1's EastEnders.

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Salford - Greater Manchester - ITV1 - Emmerdale - BBC1 - EastEnders

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The show's iconic theme music, a brass-band throwback to the sounds of the 1940s, was written by Eric Spear and has been only slightly modified since the show's beginning.

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1940s - Eric Spear

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Granada and ITV executives, as well as the people in charge of distributing the show overseas, have called (and still call, as of 2005) Coronation Street the world's longest-running soap opera. At over fifty years on television plus an extra fifteen on radio, the Guinness Book of Records recognises American soap opera Guiding Light as the world's longest-running soap opera.

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As of 2005 - Guinness Book of Records - American - Guiding Light

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