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Issues and Answers

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Presented by
  
Howard K. Smith

Original language(s)
  
English

Original network
  
ABC

Country of origin
  
United States

Running time
  
30 minutes

Picture format
  
480i (SDTV)

Issues and Answers was a once-weekly TV news program that was telecast by the American Broadcasting Company network from November 1960 to November 1981. The series was distributed to the ABC affiliate stations on Sunday afternoons for either live broadcast or video taped for later broadcast.

Issues and Answers was ABC-TV's response to such TV programs as NBC-TV's Meet the Press and CBS-TV's Face the Nation. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mostly government officials, both domestic and foreign. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured newspaper and radio reporters along with TV correspondents, Issues and Answers more commonly featured only ABC News correspondents.

For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents.

Issues and Answers was canceled in 1981, succeeded by the 60-minute This Week with David Brinkley.

References

Issues and Answers Wikipedia


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