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calliaume:
--- Quote from: jlgarfield on April 11, 2020, 09:37:09 PM ---
--- Quote from: Casey Buck on April 02, 2020, 08:55:39 PM ---Amusingly, there's a chapter on Pitfall, where it says that:
--- Quote ---The highest amount won by a contestant in the first twenty-six weeks of taping was $17,000, and the show gave away more than $300,000 in the first season.
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Alex's interview with the Archive of American Television said that he got paid for the first 13 weeks, but not the last 13. So, I wonder how much of that actually got awarded.
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https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/celebrities/alex-trebek-bounced-check/ - It was for $49,000. This means he was agreed to have been paid $98K for his duties.
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Assuming the payment was in Canadian dollars and not US dollars, that would have been about $112,900 USD in today's funds. Yeah, I can see why he'd still be ticked off. And Pitfall reran for years after that.
Jamey Greek:
--- Quote from: Casey Buck on April 14, 2020, 02:20:51 AM ---Another one: Emcee Monty Hall by the big dealer himself (along with Bill Libby) from 1973.
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There is going to be a revised version of that book written by Adam Nedeff.
PYLdude:
--- Quote from: Jamey Greek on April 16, 2020, 12:49:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: Casey Buck on April 14, 2020, 02:20:51 AM ---Another one: Emcee Monty Hall by the big dealer himself (along with Bill Libby) from 1973.
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There is going to be a revised version of that book written by Adam Nedeff.
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I don't think "revised" is the word you're looking for.
BrandonFG:
Not exclusively game show-related, but Wesley Hyatt's Encyclopedia of Daytime Television is now part of the archive. It features a comprehensive history of shows and schedules.
Kniwt:
Kicking this to note that publishers have taken notice and are Very Not Amused. If you were thinking of, er, checking out any of the titles listed here, you might want to do it sooner rather than later.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program
--- Quote ---Before this change, publishers largely looked the other way as IA and a few other libraries experimented with the digital lending concept. Some publishers' groups condemned the practice, but no one filed a lawsuit over it. Perhaps the publishers feared setting an adverse precedent if the courts ruled that CDL was legal.
But the IA's emergency lending program was harder for publishers to ignore. So this week, as a number of states have been lifting quarantine restrictions, the publishers sued the Internet Archive.
... If they win the lawsuit, they might force the group to shut down its book scanning operation and promise to not start it up again, then allow it to continue its other, less controversial offerings.
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