White House Chronicle

White House Chronicle will be marking its 20th year on the air in January, making it one of the longest-running, weekly news and public affairs programs on PBS. past-episodesThe program, which originates from WHUT-TV, Channel 32 in Washington, airs nationwide on more than 200 PBS and public, education and government access stations, and the commercial AMG TV network. Its Executive Producer and Host Llewellyn King and his co-host, Linda Gasparello, are journalists with long experience covering politics, business and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. In 1997, Llewellyn King set out to create a television program that would combine a civilized discussion of news and public affairs with English polymath Noel Coward’s “talent to amuse.” “With ‘White House Chronicle,’ I wanted a comfy couch of a television program where viewers could sit back and learn something new, or think about something in a new way,” said King, who is also the program’s executive producer and host. King also wanted viewers to meet new people — particularly the many talented print journalists in Washington who rarely, if ever, appeared on television. Over the years, a few we talent-scouted have gone on to become TV fixtures.