Meet the press
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Meet the press |
| Country of production | United States |
| Year (s) | since 1947 |
| Production company |
NBC News |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Sunday |
| genre | Political talk show |
| Moderation | Chuck Todd (since 2014) |
| First broadcast | November 6, 1947 (USA) on NBC |
Meet the Press ( English for Meet the Press ) is an American political talk show that since 1947 every Sunday morning by the TV station NBC will air. It is therefore the longest running television series in television history. In Germany, the format was adapted from 1953 as “ Der Internationale Frühschoppen ” (now the “ Press Club ”). The press hour program has existed in Austria since 1979 .
history
Meet the Press goes back to the radio show American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press , which was broadcast on the Washington radio station WRC-AM from 1945. On November 6, 1947, the first program ran on television. In the program, politicians or other persons of public interest answer questions from a changing group of journalists. Lawrence E. Spivak, until 1954 also editor of the conservative news magazine American Mercury , was initially a permanent member of the group, later until 1975 also a presenter of the program.
"Meet the Press with Tim Russert"
Since December 8, 1991, the show was hosted by Tim Russert , and the name of the show was subsequently changed to "Meet the Press with Tim Russert". In 1992 the length of the program was doubled from half an hour to a full hour. In the first part of the program, Tim Russert asked one or more guests from public life about a current topic; In the second part, journalists from various media discussed the issues of the week with Russert at the political round table .
On June 13, 2008, Tim Russert suddenly died of a heart attack.
After Tim Russert's death
The program was not stopped after Russert's death. However, it is now only called “Meet the Press” again. The show was temporarily taken over by veteran NBC journalist Tom Brokaw during this period of the 2008 US presidential campaign . Since December 2008, it has been hosted by David Gregory , a journalist who received an Emmy Award in 2005 . On September 7, 2014, Chuck Todd took over the show.
Trivia
Russert traditionally closed the show with the words “ That's all for today. We'll be back next week. If it's Sunday, it's 'Meet the Press'. "(German:" That's it for today: We'll be back next week. Every Sunday it's 'Meet the Press'. ")
The theme music for Meet the Press was written by the American composer John Williams .