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American news/interview television program
the American public affairs program
The longevity of Meet the Press is attributable in part to the fact that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. It was the first live television network news program on which a sitting president of the United States appeared, this occurred on its broadcast on November 9, 1975, which featured Gerald Ford. The program has been hosted by 12 moderators, beginning with creator Martha Rountree. The show's current moderator is Kristen Welker, who became moderator in September 2023 following longtime moderator Chuck Todd’s departure. Meet the Press airs Sundays from 9–10 a. m. ET on the NBC TV network; 10:30–11:30 a. m. ET in New York and Washington. The program also re airs at 2 p. m. ET Sundays and 2 a. m. and 4 a. m. ET Mondays on MSNBC on cable. Meet the Press is also occasionally pre empted by network coverage of sports events held outside the U. S. The program is also rebroadcast on Mondays at 2:30 a. m. Eastern Time on MSNBC, whose audio feed is also simulcast on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. The program is syndicated by Westwood One to various radio stations around the United States, and is on C SPAN Radio as part of its replays of the Sunday morning talk shows.

The program's format consists of an extended one on one interview with the host, and is sometimes followed by a roundtable discussion or one on two interview with figures in adversarial positions, either Congressional members from opposite sides of the aisle or political commentators. A half hour program for the first 45 years of its history, the show was expanded to 60 minutes starting with the broadcast on September 20, 1992. The program also features in depth examinations of facts behind political and general news stories (particularly as part of a segment called the "Data Download," introduced after Chuck Todd assumed duties as moderator, which is conducted on a touchscreen within the main set).

Mark Whitaker was named by NBC News as the division's Washington, D. C. Bureau Chief and was given "executive oversight" of Meet the Press.

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams acted as moderator of the first show following the tribute to Russert on June 15, 2008, with the same guests and subject matter that Russert was planning for when he died. Following Russert's death, Tom Brokaw was named the interim moderator through the 2008 general elections. Brokaw followed Russert's tradition by signing off with "We'll be back next Sunday because if it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press" (a sign off that continues to be used by his successors as moderator). In September of that year, the show was presented with limited commercial interruption. On August 10, 2008, David Gregory moderated the panel discussion during the second half hour of the broadcast, while Brokaw anchored the first half hour from the site of the Summer Olympics in Beijing. The following week on August 17, 2008, he moderated the entire broadcast. On December 1, 2008, it was also reported that the December 7, 2008 broadcast would be Brokaw's last, with Gregory becoming the new permanent host the following Sunday.

David Gregory began his tenure as moderator on December 14, 2008. Four days after Gregory's first regular broadcast, on December 18, 2008, NBC News political director Chuck Todd was named contributing editor of Meet the Press. Throughout Gregory's tenure as moderator, Meet the Press experienced significant ratings declines. In the final three months of 2013, the program placed third among the Sunday morning talk shows in total viewership, behind CBS's Face the Nation and ABC's This Week, for the first time since 1992. It also experienced the lowest ratings in the show's entire history among the key 25 to 54 age viewing demographic during this period. NBC management became uncertain as to the future direction of the program. A new set was introduced on May 2, 2010, featuring video screens and library style bookshelves, Gregory would preview the guests to be featured during each week's broadcast using a large video screen. Different, modified intro music was also introduced, with the Meet the Press theme music in a shorter "modernized [style] the beginning repeated with drum beats" (see "High definition broadcasting" below for additional information).

In response to declining viewership, rumors surfaced in August 2014 that Gregory would be replaced as the program's moderator. NBC News President Deborah Turness apparently had held discussions with Jon Stewart (then host of Comedy Central's news comedy program The Daily Show) to replace Gregory, which Stewart later confirmed in a Rolling Stone interview, saying, "My guess is they were casting as wide and as weird a net as they could. I'm sure part of them was thinking, 'Why don't we just make it a variety show? On August 14, 2014, Turness announced that Chuck Todd, NBC's chief White House correspondent, would take over the role of moderator on September 7, 2014. Because of Todd's fanhood, a Los Angeles Dodgers poster became part of the physical format.

On September 28, 2015, MSNBC premiered MTP Daily, a weekday spin off also hosted by Todd. It formally replaced The Ed Show as MSNBC's early evening program after a transitional period following its cancellation. MSNBC explained that the program is meant to "bring the insight and power of Meet the Press to our air every day of the week.” By 2022, the show was airing in the 1:00 p. m. Eastern slot, and in May it was announced that the show would be moving from MSNBC to the free streaming platform NBC News NOW, and rechristened Meet the Press Now, starting June 6, 2022. The show also returned to an early evening slot of 4:00 p. m. Eastern.

In a December 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, Todd discussed how disinformation overtook the media during the Trump administration. However, PressThink, a project of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, took Todd to task for failing to address the issue as it unfolded, in a very detailed discussion of Todd's remarks.

On June 4, 2023, Todd announced he would be leaving his role as moderator. Kristen Welker was named as his replacement for the flagship Meet the Press beginning in September, while spin off Meet the Press Now featured rotating guest hosts, with Welker only hosting Meet The Press Now on Thursdays and Fridays.

The set utilized from March 17, 1996 to April 25, 2010, had been designed as an experimental set for high definition broadcasting, several editions of the program (including the first broadcast of a regular series on a major television network in HD) had aired in the format in the 1990s over experimental HD station WHD TV in Washington, D. C. Despite this, the program continued to be transmitted in NTSC over the NBC network itself. On May 2, 2010, Meet the Press became the last NBC News program to convert to high definition, and unveiled a new set consisting of large video screens mostly used to display Washington scenery, satellite interview subjects and moderator and subject talking points, along with graphics produced for the format. In January 2021, production of the program moved from WRC TV facilities in Tenleytown to a ground floor studio in NBC's new Washington D. C. bureau on Capitol Hill.

First guest: James A. Farley, the former Postmaster General of the United States and former Democratic National Committee Chair. An interview with Martin Luther King Jr., about the civil rights movement in the United States.

In addition to its broadcasts on NBC, Meet the Press also airs on various other NBCUniversal owned channels domestically and internationally, including MSNBC, NBC News Now, CNBC Europe in Europe and CNBC Asia in Asia. It is also broadcast in Australia on the Seven Network and in the Philippines on 9TV. Meet the Press is also available as an audio or video podcast, and is simulcast on radio stations by Westwood One (which also handles distribution of all other NBC produced radio programming, including NBC News Radio).