and typically broadcast on weekends by member stations. The show averages about six million weekly listeners on air and via podcast.

Format

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! premiered in 1998 and was recorded in front of a live audience in the Chase Auditorium beneath Chicago's Chase Tower on Thursday nights. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, episodes were recorded remotely beginning March 2020, mainly from panelists' homes, with sound effects

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