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Sunday 16 March 2014

Chat Show

Joe Franklin, an American radio and television personality, hosted the first television talk show. The show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993.

Franklin is credited by some as having invented the talk show format. The host was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's longest-running talk show show and he claimed not to have missed an episode in 43 years.


Joe Franklin interviewed 300,000 guests in 21,445 shows from 1950 to 1993.

NBC's The Tonight Show is the world's longest-running talk show, having debuted as The Steve Allen Show on September 27, 1954. The show underwent some minor title changes until settling on its current title in 1962.


The Late Late Show, Europe's longest-running chat show, was first broadcast by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in Ireland on Friday, July 6, 1962 at 23.20.


David Letterman, the longest- serving late night talk show host in TV history, gave up his U.S. chat show after 33 years in 2015.

The longest marathon television talk show on record belongs to NOVA24TV, hosted by Boris Tomašič in Slovenia. They achieved this feat from September 24-27 2023, staying on air for an impressive  73 hours, 23 minutes.  That's over three days of continuous talk show!

When Stephen Colbert was 10 years old, his father, two brothers, and 69 others were killed when their airplane crashed five miles from the runway amid dense fog. The crew failed to pay attention to the plane's altitude because they were busy trying to spot a nearby amusement park through the fog.

In Japan, panel shows — called "tooku bangumi" — are very commonplace, accounting for about 30% of daytime and prime-time programming on the four main television stations.

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