Vox populi Vox populi American television personality Steve Allen as the host of "The Tonight Show" further developed the "man on the street" interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV. Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter – unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated "vox pop". In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or MOTS. The results of such an interview are unpredictable at
VOX (German TV channel) VOX (German TV channel) Vox is a German free-to-air television channel launched on 25 January 1993 and owned by RTL Group. The channel mainly broadcasts documentaries and US series and movies. One of the most successful programs on VOX was "Wa(h)re Liebe" (1994–2004), a TV magazine about sexuality (sex clubs, fetishism, BDSM, etc.), hosted by Lilo Wanders. VOX started transmitting on 25 January 1993. It competed with public television by broadcasting many live and informational programmes. The channel was originally owned by an assortment of German media companies: The director of programming at launch was Ruprecht Eser. One year after