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TimK2003:
Rod's passing is by far one of the largest, if not THE largest game show news items in recent memory.  

If we were to comprise a list of the top 10 most significant game show news items in the past 20 years, whether or not the internet was around, of course, what would they be.  

I have 5 strong nominations:

1) Obviously, the news of Rod Roddy's health problems and the ensuing chain of events...

2) Johnny Olson's passing.

3) The creation of Game Show Network.

4) & 5)  The sudden, unexpected suicides of Jay Stewart & Ray Combs.


Anyone else?

inturnaround:
Here's my list (in no particular order):

1. The creation of Game Show Network
2. Game shows come back to primetime with WWTBAM
3. The death of Johnny Olsen
4. The Major cheating scandal on WWTBAM
5. The fall of primetime game shows
6. The return of Richard Dawson to FF
7. The blurring of the line between game show and unscripted event television
8. The continued success of TPiR
9. The suicide of Ray Combs
10. The end of the daytime network gameshow (except TPiR)

Matt Ottinger:
That's actually a very good list.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 08:54 PM\'] 3. The death of Johnny Olsen
 [/quote]
 I think we can add the deaths of Bill Cullen and Mark Goodson to that list.

Honorable mention: Game shows shifting from being mostly produced by "Mom and Pop" companies to larger companies(Coca-Cola and later Sony buying Griffin shows, All American/Pearson buying Goodson-Todman shows, Disney's stake in several succesful game shows, Sony buying the Barris, Barry/Enright, and Bob Stewart libraries of shows)

inturnaround:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 09:04 PM\'] [quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Oct 30 2003, 08:54 PM\'] 3. The death of Johnny Olsen
 [/quote]
I think we can add the deaths of Bill Cullen and Mark Goodson to that list.

Honorable mention: Game shows shifting from being mostly produced by "Mom and Pop" companies to larger companies(Coca-Cola and later Sony buying Griffin shows, All American/Pearson buying Goodson-Todman shows, Disney's stake in several succesful game shows, Sony buying the Barris, Barry/Enright, and Bob Stewart libraries of shows) [/quote]
 Yeah, that's a good call. That does reach the outer limits of the 20 years, but it does fit the criterion. My mind was really thinking of late 80s-and the whole of the 90s, so there may be things I missed from 83 to about 88.

Feel free to fill in the holes.

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