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Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Jimmy Owen on October 11, 2009, 10:55:26 AM
Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson.  Chris Knight will host (http://\"http://michigan.gov/lottery/0,1607,7-110--223933--,00.html\")  I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: MizzouRah! on October 11, 2009, 11:13:28 AM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 09:55 AM\']Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson.  Chris Knight will host (http://\"http://michigan.gov/lottery/0,1607,7-110--223933--,00.html\")  I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]I love the comment near the end of the article..."host of the wildly popular Trivial Pursuit...America Plays". Funny they didn't explain why it was canceled after the first season.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on October 11, 2009, 02:15:18 PM
Here's (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqCiIi15ddM\") a promo/pitch/advertisement for it. I'm looking forward to it. Some of my earliest game show memories include watching Megabuck$ Giveaway with my family on Saturday evenings.
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:55 AM\']I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]Beth McLeod from the lottery will co-host. Doesn't beat the days of Chuck Gaidica and Aggie Usedly, though.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Neumms on October 11, 2009, 02:16:43 PM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 09:55 AM\']Michigan is getting back into the lottery game show business with Jonathan Goodson.  Chris Knight will host (http://\"http://michigan.gov/lottery/0,1607,7-110--223933--,00.html\")  I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]

Gerald Ford was unavailable.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Twentington on October 11, 2009, 02:19:46 PM
As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Matt Ottinger on October 11, 2009, 02:21:23 PM
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228299\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:15 PM\']Here's (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqCiIi15ddM\") a promo/pitch/advertisement for it.[/quote]
My first thought is that nothing says "fresh, new and modern" like recognizable background music from the 1970s.

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'228286\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:55 AM\']I'd rather have someone from Michigan, but oh well.[/quote]
It's hard to find game show hosts in Michigan.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on October 11, 2009, 02:22:06 PM
[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Twentington on October 11, 2009, 02:34:30 PM
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228303\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.
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Not if a.) I don't like lottery game shows much, b.) I want my freaking Wheel, and c.) the only other Wheel affiliate has a tendency to show the wrong episode 40% of the time.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: BobbyLankford_83 on October 11, 2009, 10:47:37 PM
[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228306\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 01:34 PM\'][quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'228303\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]Yes, but with local specials or infomercials (which they haven't done in a while) - not with another game show, which I think is perfectly acceptable.
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Not if a.) I don't like lottery game shows much, b.) I want my freaking Wheel, and c.) the only other Wheel affiliate has a tendency to show the wrong episode 40% of the time.
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Twentington, what other station do you get Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!,too on besides WNEM-TV?. WDIV or WILX-TV?. Every I visit my sis in Coldwater,MI south of Battle Creek, I watch it on WILX-TV and Channel 10 usually shows them in order.

Twentington, WOF and J! need to go back home to WJRT-TV ABC 12,where they were in the 1980's and early 1990's.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Bob Zager on October 12, 2009, 01:43:07 PM
[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with.  (I know, there was the G-T version!)
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: Twentington on October 12, 2009, 02:26:26 PM
[quote name=\'BobbyLankford_83\' post=\'228322\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 10:47 PM\']Twentington, what other station do you get Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!,too on besides WNEM-TV?. WDIV or WILX-TV?. Every I visit my sis in Coldwater,MI south of Battle Creek, I watch it on WILX-TV and Channel 10 usually shows them in order.[/quote]

WBKB out of Alpena. I'm a lot further north than Coldwater.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: JIANORAN on October 12, 2009, 06:25:40 PM
I Think Make Me Rich Will Also air on the web at the Michigan Lottery's Web Site, Doing so will be the third lottery game show to air on the web.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: BobbyLankford_83 on October 12, 2009, 10:01:12 PM
[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'228362\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 12:43 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with.  (I know, there was the G-T version!)
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WDIV pre-empting J!?. Which night, Thursday?. Because when the Michigan Lottery had Superplay in the 1970's it originated at Channel 4 after it moved from WKBD-TV 50 and it aired on Thursdays from 1975-78, when it was canned in July 1978,due to bad demographics.

Expect a lot of pissed off Jeopardy! fans in WDIV land.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: xavier45 on October 12, 2009, 11:35:08 PM
[quote name=\'BobbyLankford_83\' post=\'228406\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 10:01 PM\'][quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'228362\' date=\'Oct 12 2009, 12:43 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'228301\' date=\'Oct 11 2009, 02:19 PM\']As a viewer of WNEM, I'm thoroughly disgusted that THIS is pre-empting Wheel. WNEM loves to pre-empt Wheel.[/quote]
WDIV, in Detroit will be pre-empting Jeopardy!

I noticed in the video promo, they used the logo from the original Nickelodeon version of Double Dare, which Jonathan Goodson was NOT involved with.  (I know, there was the G-T version!)
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WDIV pre-empting J!?. Which night, Thursday?.
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Since this show is airing Friday, I would expect Friday.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: polo23 on October 18, 2009, 03:54:33 AM
Here's a useless pre-emption for WNEM. Thursday's Jeopardy is replaced for the annual unwatched Weather Survival special.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on February 08, 2010, 08:24:53 PM
For everyone in the state, a reminder that another special will be airing this Wednesday on your local lottery station. I'll try to get it up on YouTube that night for all that would like to see it, but cannot.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: mmb5 on February 08, 2010, 11:18:53 PM
Airing on Wednesday in Detroit.  Which means Jeopardy gets knocked out both Wednesday and Friday, the latter for the Olympics.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on June 04, 2010, 06:13:07 PM
A bit late, but for anyone in the area the third installment airs tonight in local markets at 7:30 pm. I'll probably YouTube the episode for those who could not (or chose not to) see it.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: mmb5 on June 04, 2010, 07:39:18 PM
And yet again, I lose Jeopardy for this.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on September 30, 2010, 07:47:33 PM
You'll lose Jeopardy! tomorrow night, too. (I lose Wheel.) Newest installment airs across Michigan at 7:30 pm.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: golden-road on October 02, 2010, 12:26:11 AM
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'248516\' date=\'Sep 30 2010, 07:47 PM\']You'll lose Jeopardy! tomorrow night, too. (I lose Wheel.) Newest installment airs across Michigan at 7:30 pm.[/quote]

Will you upload it, please?
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: chad1m on October 02, 2010, 01:28:36 AM
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'248516\' date=\'Sep 30 2010, 07:47 PM\']You'll lose Jeopardy! tomorrow night, too. (I lose Wheel.) Newest installment airs across Michigan at 7:30 Will you upload it, please?[/quote]I would love to, except I went to my brother's high school football game and forgot to record it. =\ Bad Chad.
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: mathwhiz on October 02, 2010, 11:29:25 PM
I can get the video, maybe figure out how to upload it.  There are a few shots of me in the audience.  I attended part of the taping - they take all day to produce that 1/2 hour show.  Amazing how long it takes - at least it was to me.  Was neat watching people win millions of dollars though.

Rich
Title: Christopher Knight Lands New Hosting Gig
Post by: mathwhiz on October 08, 2010, 11:55:17 PM
I finally got the video uploaded to YouTube - glad I don't have to do that everyday - took awhile to get it to work, but now the 10/1/10 episode of Make Me Rich is available for all to see, just search for "Make Me Rich - October 1, 2010".

Rich