Meet the Press began on radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press, a program to promote The American Mercury, a magazine that Lawrence E. Spivak purchased in 1935.
O programa comezou na radio radio o 5 de outubro de 1945 co título de American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press,,na Mutual Broadcasting System, era un programa patrocinado por The American Mercury, unha revista que Lawrence E. Spivak mercara en 1939.