Sunday morning talk show
A Sunday morning talk show is a television program with a news/talk/public affairs–hybrid format that is broadcast on Sunday mornings. This type of program originated in the United States, and has since been used in other countries.
Sunday morning talk shows by country
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
| Program | Host | Network | Debut |
| Al Punto | Jorge Ramos | Univision | 2007 |
| Enfoque con José Díaz-Balart | José Díaz-Balart | Telemundo | 2010 |
Other English language examples include NBC's syndicated The Chris Matthews Show, Bloomberg Television's Political Capital with Al Hunt, the PBS roundtables 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, TV One's Washington Watch, 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 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 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, 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.
Australia
Currently, only two Sunday morning political programs exist in Australia - Insiders on the ABC and Sunday Agenda on Sky News Australia. Former shows include Network Ten's Meet the Press, Nine Network's Sunday, The Bolt Report and Speers on Sunday on Sky News Australia. The Bolt Report became a nightly primetime show in 2016. The three free-to-air commercial broadcasters air general morning news programs Weekend Sunrise, Weekend Today and Studio 10 which include some political coverage.| Program | Network | Airs | Host | Debut | Ending |
| Insiders | ABC ABC News 24 | 9am – 10am | David Speers | 15 July 2001 | still airing |
| Sunday Agenda | Sky News Australia | 8am AEST/AEDT | Kieran Gilbert and Andrew Clennell | 2016 - | still airing |
| Sunday | Nine Network | 7:30am | Jim Waley Jana Wendt Ellen Fanning and Ross Greenwood Ellen Fanning and Ray Martin Ellen Fanning | 15 November 1981 | 3 August 2008 |
| Meet the Press | Network Ten | 8am 10:30am | David Johnston Paul Bongiorno Deborah Knight Hugh Riminton Kathryn Robinson | October 1992 | November 2013 |
| Sunday Agenda | Sky News Live | 8:30am – 9:30am | David Speers Peter van Onselen Kristina Keneally | 4 July 2010 | 24 December 2017 |
| The Bolt Report | Network Ten | 10am | Andrew Bolt | 8 May 2011 | 29 November 2015 |
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.| Programme | Hosts | Network | Airs | Debut | Ending |
| Q+A | Jack Tame | TVNZ 1 | 9am – 10am | 2009 | still airing |
| Marae | Miriama Kamo, Scotty Morrison | TVNZ 1 | 10.30 am – 11 am | 1992 | still airing |
| Agenda | Rawdon Christie | TVNZ 1 | 10 am – 11 am | 1999 | 2009 |
| Newshub Nation | Simon Shepherd, Rebecca Wright | Three | 10 am – 11 am | 2010 | 2023 |
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, 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, 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.
| Program | Network | Airs | Hosts | Debut | Website |
| Nichiyō Tōron | NHK | 9am – 10am | Toshio Shimada, Yasuhiro Kashina | 1947 /1957 /1994 | |
| ' | TBS | 6am – 6:45am | Takashi Mikuriya, Kanae Takeuchi | 1957–1992/2004 | |
| ' | TV Asahi/ANN | 10am – 11:45am | Etsuko Komiya | 1987 /1989 /2010 | |
| Fuji TV | Tetsuo Suda, Kei Yoshida | 1992 /2008 |