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Produced by NewsHour Productions, a subsidiary of the Washington public station WETA, and distributed by PBS. Its hour-long format allows interviews to run far longer than commercial television permits.
Its measured tone and willingness to let a subject finish a sentence make it a favorite of people exhausted by cable. Critics on the right have long argued that public funding for news is inappropriate in principle and that its guest selection leans one way; federal support was terminated in 2025, which changes that argument's terms considerably.