The most popular TV host of all time isn't Johnny Carson or Dick Clark. Find out the top 28, according to fans.

You won't find him on very many lists—not even this one—but one of America's first long-running TV show hosts was John Charles Daly. From 1950 until 1967, Daly was the host of a panel show called "What's My Line?" that had contestants fielding questions from celebrities of that period in order to guess what the contestants' line of work happened to be—thus the show's title. Daly's was a familiar name to American households—as a CBS radio network correspondent in the 1930s and 1940s, he was the first national reporter to cover the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the first wire service correspondent to announce the sudden death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.

Daly's success on the game show circuit—which also included credits like "Celebrity Time" and "Who Said That?"—was in part due to a sense of trust he'd earned for his previous career as a news correspondent. It is a particularly American sensibility that even the entertainers we bring into our homes on a weekly or nightly basis forge a foundation of trust with the people, and Daly was an early example of just that kind of relationship.

TV show hosts have the unique ability to speak directly to audience members without the facade of a script or character. They become trustworthy and comforting figures in the homes of millions, whether they're providing the day's news or just telling jokes. These TV hosts can be as familiar and recognizable as any family member, but who throughout television history has stood out among all the rest?

Stacker took a look at YouGov's public opinion data on TV personalities and ranked the 28 (out of 559) who had a 50% positive opinion rating or higher. The following list ranks hosts by positive opinion, with ties broken internally at YouGov. It features a variety of hosts—from game show hosts to news anchors—and spans every decade of television.