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Talk Shows: Hosts
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Talk show hosts like Phil Donahue took advantage of the situation. Expanding from 40 markets in 1974 to a national audience of 167 markets in 1979, Donahue became the nation's number one syndicated talk show host by the late 1970s. Other new talk show hosts entered the field as well. Bill Moyers' Journal went on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1970, and William Buckley's Firing Line, which had appeared previously in syndication, went on PBS a year later. Both Moyers and Buckley, representing liberal and conservative viewpoints respectively, were to remain significant figures on public broadcasting for the next two decades. During this time independent stations and station groups, first run syndication, cable and VCR's began to weaken the networks' once invincible hold over national audiences.
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Talk shows provide a platform wherein the audiences get an opportunity to interact with experts during an ongoing discussion. A typical talk show comprises of a host and a panel of guests, usually experts in their respective fields. The arguments, suggestions and inferences are that of an expert panel and appeal to a wide group of audience.
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Talk show hosts appearing on other talk shows is not unheard of, by any means, but they usually appear as guests. Even the recent Jay Leno-on-Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel-on-Jay Leno stunt was reserved to guest status. And that stunt was brought on by the Writers Strike.
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The recent ban on news and current affairs related talk shows in Pakistan has generated creative responses. The latest being that the hosts of these various talk shows have now in the face of the ban simply taken the show out of the studios on to the road. Talat Hussain from AAJ TV and Hamid Mir from Geo amongst others are running their shows from street corners and pavements. An excerpt from a news story:
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While talk show hosts represent a potpourri of styles and approaches, the number of talk show formats is actually quite limited. For example, a general interest hard news or public affairs show can be built around an expert panel (Washington Week in Review), a panel and news figure (Meet the Press), a magazine format for a single topic (Nightline), a magazine format that deals with multiple topics (Sixty Minutes), or a one-on-one host/guest interview (Bill Moyers' World of Ideas). These are the standard formats for the discussion of hard news topics. Similarly, a general interest soft news talk show that mixes entertainment, news and public affairs can ... be built around a single topic (Donahue, Oprah, and Geraldo), a magazine multiple topic format (Today, Good Morning America), or a one-on-one host/guest interview (Barbara Walters Interview Special). There are also special interest news/information formats that focus on such subjects as economics (Wall Street Week), sports (Sports Club), homemaking/fashion (Ern Westmore Show), personal psychology (Dr. Ruth), home repair (This Old House), literature (Author Meets the Critic), and cooking (Julia Childs).
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Politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows.... Other radio talk show subjects include Car Talk hosted by NPR and Coast to Coast AM hosted by Art Bell and George Noory which discusses topics of the paranormal, conspiracy theories, fringe science and the just plain weird. Sports talk shows are also very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellerman's original public access show Max on Boxing.
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