Call-in


a program in which listeners or viewers phone in comments or questions to the host or a person being interviewed.
a live telephone conversation intended for broadcasting between a program’s host and a person being interviewed.
of, relating to, or featuring such phone calls or conversations:
a call-in program.
Contemporary Examples

Why Snowden’s ‘Challenge’ to Putin on Russian Surveillance Doesn’t Matter Cathy Young April 19, 2014

Historical Examples

Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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