 TV news pioneer Edward R. Murrow hosted a talk show entitled "Small World" in the late 1950s and since then, political TV talk shows have predominantly aired on Sunday mornings.Syndicated daily talk shows began to gain more popularity during the mid-1970s and reached their height of popularity with the rise of the tabloid talk show.Morning talk shows gradually replaced earlier forms of programming — there were a plethora of morning game shows during the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, and some stations formerly showed a morning movie in the time slot that many talk shows now occupy.