List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (1998)

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The following is a list of episodes of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! that aired during the NPR news panel game's first year in 1998. Dan Coffey served as original host until being succeeded by Peter Sagal in May. Carl Kasell served as announcer and scorekeeper. Dates indicated are the episodes' original Saturday air dates. Job titles and backgrounds of the guests reflect their status at the time of their appearance.

Contents

January

DateGuestPanelists
January 3 Roy Blount, Jr., Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal
January 10Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal, Margo Kaufman
January 17Roxanne Roberts, Amy Dickinson, Charlie Pierce
January 24Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal
January 31 Tim Foecke, Titanic scientist [1] Roy Blount, Jr., Margo Kaufman, Peter Sagal

February

DatePanelists
February 7 Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal
February 14
February 21
February 28

March

DatePanelists
March 7 Roy Blount, Jr., Margo Kaufman, Peter Sagal
March 14Margo Kaufman, Peter Sagal, Roxanne Roberts
March 21Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal, Charlie Pierce
March 28Margo Kaufman, Peter Sagal, Adam Felber

April

DatePanelistsNotes
April 4 Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal
April 11Roxanne Roberts, Peter Sagal, Charlie Pierce
April 18Margo Kaufman, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
April 25Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts, Peter SagalDan Coffey's final episode as host

May

DateGuestPanelistsNotes
May 2 NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg Adam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts Peter Sagal's first episode as host
First edition of the "Not My Job" guest segment [2]
May 9 Robert Siegel, host of NPR's All Things Considered
May 16NPR correspondent Peter Overby First episode to feature "Who's Carl This Time?" as a segment
May 23NPR Pentagon correspondent Martha Raddatz Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, Margo Kaufman
May 30NPR correspondent Joe Palca Charlie Pierce, Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts

June

DateGuestPanelists
June 6NPR newscaster Corey Flintoff Adam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
June 13NPR Talk of the Nation host Ray Suarez Charlie Pierce, Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts
June 20Columnist and radio personality Bob Garfield Adam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Margo Kaufman
June 27NPR Midwest correspondent Cheryl Corley Margo Kaufman, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts

July

DateGuestPanelists
July 4 This American Life host/producer Ira Glass Adam Felber, Margo Kaufman, Roxanne Roberts
July 11NPR correspondent Renee Montagne Roy Blount, Jr., Roxanne Roberts, Charlie Pierce
July 18NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, Charlie Pierce
July 25 Linda Wertheimer, host of NPR's All Things Considered Margo Kaufman, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts

August

DateGuestPanelists
August 1NPR science correspondent Richard Harris Roy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts
August 8NPR business reporter Madeleine Brand Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, Charlie Pierce
August 15no guestAdam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, Margo Kaufman
August 22NPR Theme music composer B. J. Leiderman Roy Blount, Jr., Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
August 29NPR Los Angeles correspondent Andy BowersAdam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts

September

DateGuestPanelistsNotes
September 12NPR correspondent Margo Adler Roy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts
September 19NPR State Department reporter Ted ClarkAdam Felber, Roxanne Roberts, Charlie Pierce
September 26NPR senior correspondent Jacki Lyden First edition of the "Bluff the Listener" segment

October

DateGuestPanelistsNotes
October 3 Weekend Edition Saturday commentator Ketzel Levine Roy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber, Roxanne Roberts
October 10NPR cultural correspondent Dean OlsherRoy Blount, Jr., Roxanne Roberts, Margo Kaufman
October 17no guestRoy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber, Roxanne RobertsFirst edition of the "Listener Limerick Challenge"
October 24Roxanne Roberts, Nell Benjamin, Charlie Pierce
October 31NPR news reference librarian Kee MaleskyRoy Blount, Jr., Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts

November

DateGuestPanelists
November 7 NPR correspondent Melissa Block Adam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
November 14NPR transportation correspondent Steve Inskeep
November 21NPR president Kevin Klose

December

DateGuestPanelists
December 5NPR environment correspondent John Neilsen Sue Ellicott, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
December 12NPR London correspondent Michael GoldfarbRoxanne Roberts, Roy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber
December 19NPR health care correspondent Joanne Silberner Adam Felber, Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts
December 26 Liane Hansen, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is an hour-long weekly news radio panel show produced by WBEZ and National Public Radio (NPR) in Chicago, Illinois. On the program, panelists and contestants are quizzed in humorous ways about that week's news. 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. The show averages about six million weekly listeners on air and via podcast.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Kasell</span> American radio personality (1934–2018)

Carl Ray Kasell was an American radio personality. He was a newscaster for National Public Radio, and later was the official judge and scorekeeper of the weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! until his retirement in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Sagal</span> NPR personality, host of "Wait Wait...Dont Tell Me!" (born 1965)

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References

  1. ↑ "Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me!". NPR . Archived from the original on 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  2. ↑ "‘Wait Wait’ … Please Tell Me: The Story Behind NPR’s Beloved Quiz Show," from The Ringer, 1/4/2018
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