Post Views: 62,170 Was Tim Russert of Meet the Press Murdered? Tim Russert was the host of Meet the Press on Sunday mornings on NBC from 1991 to 2008. Meet the Press is the longest, continuously running television show in history, having started on November 6, 1947. Until Russert’s surprising and untimely death on June 13, 2008 at age 58, … Continue reading Was Tim Russert of Meet the Press Murdered?