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uncamark:
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Dec 7 2003, 07:46 AM\']•  The AC concept was created by Altman Productions out of the Washington DC area.  At it's peak the show & format was seen in 15 different markets, mostly in the eastern half of the USA.  Currently, it's seen in about 6 markets -- mostly in the Mid-Atlantic region, Pittsburgh, and now Cleveland again.[/quote]
It would be wonderful to see "It's Academic/Academic Challenge" in Chicago again.  In the 60s and 70s it was on WMAQ, hosted by Ed Grennan, a superlative quizmaster, and later on WBBM, hosted by John Coughlin, another great veteran broadcaster and the station's weatherman, who would lose his job to quirkier or younger people and come back strong every time after they bombed out.

Earlier this year while in Washington, I had the good fortune of seeing the DC version with Mac McGarry at the helm--and a spelling bee rebroadcast on a government access channel, where he was reading the words in front of the library set that's used for "It's Academic."  What a class guy.

In fact, it's funny that while the rest of the set is flashier than sets used to be, McGarry's still standing in front of the library set.  Did WRC try to change that and the viewers complain?

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