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{{short description|American news panel radio game show}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox radio show | show_name = Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! | image = WaitWait.png | format = {{hlist | [[Quiz show]] | [[panel show]] | comedy}} | audio_format = [[Stereophonic]] | record_location = Chicago, Illinois | runtime = Approx. 50 min. | creator = Doug Berman | producer = {{unbulleted list | Miles Doornbos | Ian Chillag | [[Jennifer Mills News|Jennifer Mills]] | Lillian King | Robert Neuhaus | Lorna White | Colin Miller | Shayna Donald}} | executive_producer = Mike Danforth | presenter = Dan Coffey (1998) <br /> [[Peter Sagal]] (1998–present) | announcer = {{unbulleted list | [[Carl Kasell]] (1998–2014) | [[Bill Kurtis]] (2014–present)}} | country = United States | language = English | home_station = [[WBEZ]] in Chicago, Illinois | syndicates = {{hlist | [[NPR]] | [[WBEZ]]}} | first_aired = {{Start date|1998|01|03}} | last_aired = present | opentheme = [[B. J. Leiderman]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100788 | title=BJ Leiderman, NPR Biography | publisher=NPR | access-date=April 25, 2007}}</ref> (composer) | website = {{URL|https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/|waitwait.npr.org}} | podcast = {{URL|https://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-me}} }} '''''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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Steve|title=NPR's 'Wait Wait' is even more fun live |url= http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-1220-wait-wait-taping-20161219-story.html|work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date= December 19, 2016}}</ref>
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