''Equal Time'' is an American political talk and
debate
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television show that was broadcast from 1993 to 2000. It premiered on
CNBC
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on May 24, 1993 and ran until 1998. The show then moved to
MSNBC
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until being cancelled in 2000. One of the main hooks of the show originally was its aim to include more female voices in the typically male-dominated world of
Beltway politics. Throughout the show's early run, both co-hosts were female, starting in 1993 with
Republican strategist
Mary Matalin as the conservative co-presenter and journalist
Jane Wallace as her liberal counterpart. Wallace left the show in 1995 and was replaced by the former
White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. Matalin in turn left in 1996 and was replaced by
Bay Buchanan. In 1997, Myers was replaced by the comedian
Stephanie Miller. (A rotation of liberal co-hosts faced off with Buchanan between the time that Myers left the show and Miller was officially hired as her replacement some months later.)
The show moved to
MSNBC
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in 1998 and the hosts eventually became
Oliver North and
Paul Begala. It was cancelled in December 2000.
During its seven and a half year run, the show eventually morphed from a
softball interview format into a more hard-hitting political forum, not unlike ''
Crossfire''.
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Current affairs shows
CNBC original programming
1990s American television news shows
1999 American television series endings
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