“Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” is a piece of Hour-long weekly news based Radio Panel and Game web show and It is produced by WBEZ and National Public Radio (NPR) in Chicago, Illinois. On the Program, Panelist, and contestants are quizzed in humorous ways about the week’s news and It is distributed by NPR in the United States internationally on NPR Worldwide and on the internet via podcast, and typically broadcast on weekends by member stations and the web show averages about 6 million weekly listeners on released and via podcast.
So this web show is hosted and announced by Peter Segal and Carl Kasell and Bill Kurtis and created by Doug Berman and when the program had its debut in January 1998, Dan Coffey of Ask Dr,]. Science was the original host, but a revamping of the web show led to his replacement in May of that year.
FORMAT OF THIS SHOW:-
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is a recorded in front of a live audience in Chicago at the chase Auditorium beneath the Chase Tower on Thursday nights until May 2005, the show was recorded in one of Chicago Public Radio’s studios with no audience and often with one and more panelists calling in from other locations.
THE SHOW HAS ALSO BEEN GUEST HOSTED BY:-
Tom Bodett, Luke Burbank, Adam Felber, Peter Grosz, Mike Pesca, Richard Sher, Bil Radke, Susan Stamberg, Robert Siegal, Brian Unger, Drew Carey, Tom Hanks, Helen Hong, Jessi Klein and Faith Salie when Sagal was on vacation.
HOW DO I BECOME A CONTESTANT ON “WAIT WAIT DON’T TELL ME”?
Wait Wait Don’t tell me, listeners, also participate by telephoning and sending Emails to nominate themselves as a contestant and the producers select several listeners for each web show and call them to appear on the program and playing various games featuring questions based on the week’s news. And the current prize is to have anyone web show panelist and staff member of the contestant’s choice record the greeting including Sagal, Kurtis, and Kasell prior to his death in April 2018.
