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Highly Questionable

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5213867 ↗
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Highly Questionable (stylized as ¿Highly Questionable?; abbreviated HQ) is an American daily sports talk television program on ESPN. Created as a vehicle for former Miami Herald sportswriter and ESPN contributor Dan Le Batard, who also hosted his own radio show for the network, the show premiered on September 12, 2011. It aired on weekdays at 2:30 PM Eastern. The final show was September 10, 2021.

From its premiere until May 10, 2013, the show bore Le Batard's name and was called Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable (DLHQ), and from its premiere until March 23, 2015, the show aired on ESPN2. The program was based in Le Batard's hometown of Miami, Florida, and produced via satellite in Washington, D.C. It was created by the same people behind Pardon the Interruption (PTI), on which Le Batard has appeared multiple times as a substitute host.

The show was hosted by Le Batard. His father, Gonzalo "Papi" Le Batard, was his daily co-host until November 2019. After taking a 3-month break, Papi made only occasional appearances.

Bomani Jones also co-hosted consistently for 5 years until his departure, and since 2017 a rotating guest served as a second co-host. The arrangement became necessary after Bomani Jones, who had joined the show in 2013, relocated to New York to co-host High Noon with Pablo Torre.

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“Highly Questionable” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Highly, Questionable and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2021, 2013, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Highly, Questionable and television.
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