''Issues and Answers'' was a once-weekly
TV news
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program that was
telecast by the
American Broadcasting Company
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network from November 1960 to November 1981. The series was distributed to the ABC affiliate stations on Sunday afternoons for either live broadcast or
video tape
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d for later broadcast.
''Issues and Answers'' was ABC's response to such
TV program
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s as
NBC
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's ''
Meet the Press
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'' and
CBS's ''
Face the Nation
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''. It featured TV reporters interviewing selected newsmakers of the contemporary time period – mostly government officials, both domestic and foreign. Unlike the other networks' news-interview TV programs, which featured