Issues and Answers
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Presented by | Howard K. Smith |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
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Original network | ABC |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Original release | 1960 – 1981 |
Chronology | |
Followed by | This Week |
Issues and Answers was a once-weekly TV news program that was telecast by the American Broadcasting Company network from November 1960[1] 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.[2]
The program's theme song for many years was the third movement (the "Song of the Blacksmith") of the Second Suite in F for Military Band (Op. 28, No. 2) by Gustav Holst.
For its entire run it was produced by Margaret "Peggy" Whedon, one of ABC's first female correspondents.[3]
Issues and Answers was canceled in 1981, succeeded by the 60-minute This Week with David Brinkley.
References
- ↑ "Broadcasting" (PDF). 3 July 1961. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ↑ IMDB entry
- ↑ "Broadcasting" (PDF). 17 January 1983. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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