Inside Washington
| Inside Washington | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Gordon Peterson |
| Theme music composer | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Opening theme | Procession of the Nobles |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Gannett Co., Inc. on WUSA (1988–2004) Allbritton Communications Company on WJLA (2004–2013) |
| Distributor | American Public Television |
| Release | |
| Original release | 1988 – 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Agronsky & Co. |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Inside Washington, formerly Agronsky & Co., was a political roundtable show hosted by the WJLA news presenter and chief political reporter Gordon Peterson that aired from 1988 to 2013. It was produced by Allbritton, owner of WJLA, and distributed to public television stations nationwide by American Public Television. In each broadcast, Peterson had four panelists discussing their opinions on political topics that were in the news during the week, and occasionally brought in a fifth panelist or guest journalist via a satellite television feed.
Inside Washington was the descendant of Agronsky & Co., a show hosted by Martin Agronsky and produced by Post-Newsweek, the owners of WUSA 9, from 1969 to 1988, and broadcast on WUSA in the Washington, D.C. area. On Agronsky's retirement in 1988, Peterson took over as host, and the show was renamed Inside Washington. Gannett took over production for the remainder of the show's run on WUSA. When Peterson moved to WJLA in the autumn of 2004, the show and all of its regular panelists at the time were brought to WJLA as well. Its regular broadcast time was switched from Saturday evenings (as also had been the practice with Agronsky & Co.) to Sunday mornings, although the show maintained a Saturday evening presence after the switch to WJLA with broadcasts on NewsChannel 8, a Washington D.C. area local news cable television channel briefly known as TBD TV, at the same time the show switched to WJLA. The show also began to be shown on the Washington, D.C.-area PBS station WETA on September 2, 2005.
When it debuted in 1969, Agronsky & Co. was a pioneer of the "talking head" format of television journalism in which journalists discussed the news of the day with one another in a roundtable format instead of interviewing the newsmakers themselves. The format was inexpensive to produce and appealed to a niche market of affluent viewers. Many shows have since adopted the format, and it has become a staple of television opinion programming.
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