United States English (*) - time listed is the time scheduled by the network, local affiliates may delay the show to later slots to accommodate local news or other programming (**) - considered the traditional "big five" Sunday shows
Spanish Other English language examples include
NBC's syndicated The Chris Matthews Show,
Bloomberg Television's
Political Capital with Al Hunt, the
PBS roundtables (often broadcast other days than Sunday)
This is America with Dennis Wholey,
Washington Week, and
Inside Washington, and the originally PBS, later commercially syndicated
The McLaughlin Group. FishbowlDC includes all the shows listed in Daniel W. Reilly's definition for
Politico's "Sunday Morning Tip Sheet," plus
CN8's
Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham and other programs, including CNN's
Reliable Sources,
Fareed Zakaria GPS,
Beyond the Politics with William Bennett and
POTUS08's
Post Politics Program used to be listed in this category but are no longer considered so.
C-SPAN's
Newsmakers,
Hearst Television's ''
Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien'',
Gray Television's
Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, Fox News'
Sunday Morning Futures, and (until
Tim Russert's 2008 death)
MSNBC's
Tim Russert Show among several others.
C-SPAN Radio provides a commercial-free rebroadcast of all five shows in rapid succession, beginning at 12 noon
Eastern. Other radio stations rebroadcast some of the shows with commercials on Sunday afternoons. Many local television stations (both
commercial and
non-commercial) also produce their own programs that air in this time frame, generally focusing on local or
state politics rather than national issues, and may play off the title of the network shows, such as
Hartford, Connecticut's
WFSB-TV, a CBS affiliate which titles their weekly program dealing with state and local issues
Face the State, a title also seen on
KTVN in
Reno/
Carson City, Nevada and
WHP-TV in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, all of which serve
state capital cities. Station groups may also syndicate programming to air on affiliates within a state, such as
Inside California Politics for
Nexstar-owned stations in California,
Inside Texas Politics for
Tegna-owned stations in Texas, and
WISN-TV's
Upfront in
Milwaukee, which is syndicated to a network of Wisconsin's ABC affiliates by WISN owner
Hearst Television. The member stations of PBS also often produce their state/local political affairs programming to air on Friday nights as a lead-out of
Washington Week.
Characteristics of guests The prominent guests appearing on these programs include
U.S. Senators,
U.S. Representatives,
state governors, candidates for
President and
Vice president,
cabinet secretaries,
White House officials, and directors of
federal agencies.
U.S. military leaders,
ambassadors, and religious leaders as well as prominent
journalists and
commentators. Members of prominent
think tanks such as
Brookings,
Center for American Progress,
AEI,
Cato,
Hoover, and
Heritage also are often invited to appear on the Sunday morning talk shows. Various studies have criticized the shows for inviting predominantly white male guests. A study of the three shows on ABC, CBS and NBC from 1997 to 2005 found that the balance between Republicans and Democrats was fairly equal (52% Republicans), 61% of the journalists on the shows were conservative during the Clinton administration and that rose to 69% when George W. Bush's was president. In 2010, a study found that a relatively small number of senior senators, all of whom were white males, accounted for the majority of all Congressional guests on the five most popular shows. In 2021, the Women's Media Center published a study that showed overall 70% of the guests were male.
The Bolt Report became a nightly primetime show in 2016. The three free-to-air commercial broadcasters air general morning news programs
Weekend Sunrise (
Seven),
Weekend Today (Nine) and
Studio 10 (Ten) which include some political coverage.
Note Canada Similar programming to Sunday morning talk shows are aired on other days in Canada, including: •
CBC Radio One airs a Saturday morning political talk show,
The House, currently hosted by Catherine Cullen. •
CBC News Network airs the weekday daily political talk show
Power & Politics, currently hosted by
David Cochrane. •
CTV News Channel airs the weekday daily political talk show
Power Play, currently hosted by
Vassy Kapelos.
New Zealand Currently, only two Sunday morning political programs exist in New Zealand -
Q+A and
Marae on
TVNZ 1. Former shows include
Three's
Newshub Nation and TVNZ's
Agenda.
United Kingdom Similar practice occurs in the
UK, in the form of shows such as
The Andrew Marr Show on the
BBC and
Sunday Live with Adam Boulton on
Sky News. However, these shows have a somewhat-broader range, often interviewing figures from the arts, popular entertainment, and sports in addition to political leaders, similar in format to
CBS News Sunday Morning in the United States. The first such Sunday show in Britain was
Weekend World, which was produced by
London Weekend Television for the
ITV network from 1972 to 1988.
Japan There are several political Sunday morning talk shows in Japan, most are often broadcast live from studios in Tokyo (Nichiyō Tōron: Kioichō, Shin Hōdō 2001: Daiba, Sunday Frontline: Roppongi), Jiji Hōdan is usually prerecorded on Friday evening.
Nichiyō Tōron by public broadcaster NHK often features one politician from every party represented in the National Diet, in many cases the parties' Diet Affairs Council Chairmen. The latter was generally the case with
Kokkai Tōronkai ("Diet forum"), one of several alternating NHK talk shows about political and economic issues sharing the same Sunday morning programming slot before they were replaced by
Nichiyō Tōron in 1994. It had initially been a NHK radio talk show and was simultaneously broadcast on television starting in the 1950s. ==References==