''Issues and Answers'' was a weekly
Sunday morning talk show telecast by the
American Broadcasting Company
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from November 27, 1960 to November 8, 1981. At the time, Sunday morning talk shows as they are now carried actually aired in mid-afternoons on Sundays before sports divisions had taken over the time slot in full, and the network distributed the show either live airing or for
later broadcast to its affiliates (though interviews were often recorded in the later part of the previous week on Thursdays or Fridays).
''Issues and Answers'' was ABC's counterpart to
NBC's ''
Meet the Press'' and
CBS's ''
Face the Nation
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''. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mainly domestic and foreign government officials and other insiders. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured
newspaper
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and
radio
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reporters along with TV correspondents, ''Issues and Answers'' more commonly featured only personnel from
ABC News ABC News most commonly refers to:
* ABC News (Australia), a national news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
* ABC News (United States), a news-gathering and broadcasting division of the American Broadcasting Company
ABC News may a ...
.
For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents.
''Issues and Answers'' aired its last edition on November 8, 1981, and replaced on November 15 by the re-formatted and hour-long ''
This Week with
David Brinkley'', which remains on the air as of 2025, and now features
George Stephanopoulos as moderator.
References
External links
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ABC News
1960 American television series debuts
1981 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1960s American television news shows
1970s American television news shows
1980s American television news shows
American Sunday morning talk shows
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