This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members built around news reporting, journalistic interviews or a talk-show host format, spanning newsmagazines and journalism programs (60 Minutes, Meet the Press, See It Now) and daytime and late-night talk shows (The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), kept apart from this subcategory's other groups by their nonfiction, host-driven format built around real interview subjects and current events rather than a scripted or competitive format.
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Era of EmergenceThe talk show side of this bucket is separately documented from 1949 (Faye Emerson) into the early 1950s. News and Talk Shows
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Television news in the United States, lead sectionQuote, Wikipedia: Television news in the United States, lead section
Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled, nightly news broadcast on American television in March 1940.
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