Meet the Press

Meet the Press ( the press english for meetings) is an American political talk show that is broadcast every Sunday morning since 1947 by the NBC television network. It is thus the longest running television series in the history of television. In Germany the format in 1953 as the " International brunch " (today " Press Club" ) was adapted. In Austria, since 1979 there is the mission press hour.

History

Meet the Press goes on the radio show American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press back, which was heard at the Washington station WRC -AM from 1945. On November 6, 1947, the first program was broadcast on television. In the broadcast to make politicians and other public figures to ask 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 round, later to 1975 also hosted the show.

"Meet the Press with Tim Russert "

Since 8 December 1991, the mission of Tim Russert was moderated, and the name of the program was subsequently changed to " Meet the Press with Tim Russert ". 1992, the length of the program was doubled from half to a full hour. In the first part of the program Tim Russert interviewed one or more guests from public life on a current topic; discussed in the second part of journalists from various media, the topics of the week with Russert on political roundtable.

On June 13, 2008 Tim Russert died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

After the death of Tim Russert

The program was not set after the death of Russert. However, it is now again only "Meet the Press." The program was adopted at this time of the U.S. presidential election campaign in 2008 temporarily from veteran NBC journalist Tom Brokaw. Since December 2008, the mission of David Gregory, a journalist from the 2005 Emmy Award in moderated.

Trivia

Russert decided to broadcast traditionally 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: Next week we are back every Sunday it is, Meet the Press. '" ).

The theme music to Meet the Press was written by the American composer John Williams.