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==Radio==

==Radio==

''Meet the Press'' was founded in 1945<ref> http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1945/october_5_1945_106236.html</ref> by [[Lawrence Spivak|Lawrence E. Spivak]] and [[Martha Rountree]] who described the show as “a forum-type program appealing to an audience interested in mechanics of a genuine press conference”.<ref>Meet the Press: 50-Years of History in the Making, by Rick Ball (Author), Nbc News </ref>It began on radio and was based off ideas that the two journalist had formulated in other shows. The first guest on the program was a reporter from the [[Christian Science Monitor]], [[Henry Wallace]], who had just returned from the [[Soviet Union]]. [[Mutual Network]] offered the show a contract and started airing Meet the Press in October 1945. After the radio program's first year it was receiving praise for revolutionizing the news radio industry. In 1946, A [[Republican]] committee used tape of a ''Meet the Press'' interview with [[Democrat]] [[Senator]], [[Theodore Bilbo]] to accuse of him being an [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansman]].  Although the show switched over to television, it went back to radio in 1952, this lasted until 1987 when NBC stopped the radio broadcast.

''Meet the Press'' was founded in 1945<ref> http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1945/october_5_1945_106236.html</ref> by [[Lawrence Spivak|Lawrence E. Spivak]] and [[Martha Rountree]] who described the show as “a forum-type program appealing to an audience interested in mechanics of a genuine press conference”.<ref name="history">Meet the Press: 50-Years of History in the Making, by Rick Ball (Author), Nbc News </ref>It began on radio and was based off ideas that the two journalist had formulated in other shows. The first guest on the program was a reporter from the [[Christian Science Monitor]], [[Henry Wallace]], who had just returned from the [[Soviet Union]]. [[Mutual Network]] offered the show a contract and started airing Meet the Press in October 1945. After the radio program's first year it was receiving praise for revolutionizing the news radio industry. In 1946, A [[Republican]] committee used tape of a ''Meet the Press'' interview with [[Democrat]] [[Senator]], [[Theodore Bilbo]] to accuse of him being an [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansman]].  Although the show switched over to television, it went back to radio in 1952, this lasted until 1987 when NBC stopped the radio broadcast.

==Television==  

==Television==  

*Every vice president has appeared on Meet the Press since 1952  

*Every vice president has appeared on Meet the Press since 1952  

* Senator [[Joe McCarthy]] brought a gun to his Meet the Press interview.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Press-50-Years-History-Making/dp/0070466149</ref>

* Senator [[Joe McCarthy]] brought a gun to his Meet the Press interview.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Press-50-Years-History-Making/dp/0070466149</ref>

* The first ''Meet the Press'' program was shot in a hotel in [[Washington, D.C.]], the host of the show, Lawrence E. Spivak, lived in the same hotel.<ref>Meet the Press: 50-Years of History in the Making, by Rick Ball (Author)</ref>

* The first ''Meet the Press'' program was shot in a hotel in [[Washington, D.C.]], the host of the show, Lawrence E. Spivak, lived in the same hotel.<ref name="history" />

*Bob Dole has made the most appearances on the show with 56.<ref>Meet the Press: 50-Years of History in the Making, by Rick Ball (Author)</ref>

*Bob Dole has made the most appearances on the show with 56.<ref name="history" />

* The ''Meet the Press'' interview with the most requested transcript was an interview with [[Juana Castro]].   

* The ''Meet the Press'' interview with the most requested transcript was an interview with [[Juana Castro]].   

*In 1968, [[Lawrence Spivak]] gave the [[Library of Congress]] nearly five hundred discs of ''Meet the Press'' shows. The library continues to update their copies every year.

*In 1968, [[Lawrence Spivak]] gave the [[Library of Congress]] nearly five hundred discs of ''Meet the Press'' shows. The library continues to update their copies every year.

*  The set used by ''Meet the Press'' from 1954 to 1977 was donated to the [[Smithsonian Institution]]<ref>Meet the Press: 50-Years of History in the Making, by Rick Ball (Author)</ref>.

*  The set used by ''Meet the Press'' from 1954 to 1977 was donated to the [[Smithsonian Institution]]<ref name="history" />.

* Former [[Arkansas]] Governor, [[Mike Huckabee]], announced his entrance into the Republican presidential primary on Meet the Press in March 2007.

* Former [[Arkansas]] Governor, [[Mike Huckabee]], announced his entrance into the Republican presidential primary on Meet the Press in March 2007.