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Meet the Press is the longest running television programme

The NBC political interview programme first aired on 6 November 1947 Meet the Press began on radio in 1945 and moved to television on 6 November 1947, and it has been broadcast every week since. Because it has never left the schedule, it holds the record for the longest continuously running television programme. Its format of interviewing a single newsmaker has survived thirteen moderators. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The NBC political interview programme first aired on 6 November 1947. The figure is taken from NBC News, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.