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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JasonA1 on July 24, 2011, 04:32:32 PM
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I don't believe we've talked about another videoarchives1000 post, a special "Win, Lose or Draw" that aired in LA only, pitting on-air personalities of KRTH vs. those of KROQ. (Part 1 (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlH0sbmvRWE") and Part 2 (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-OORA1gzA")) ObGameShowsWithinAGameShow: KRTH's Steve Morris hosted Jay Wolpert's 1987 pilot for "Trivial Pursuit."
There's a clip of another market-specific edition for Arizona (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rn75BTCh0c") elsewhere on the Tubes. Does anybody remember any others from their hometown? And did any other show do this? I remember Detroit radio personalities on Donnymid, but never saw the episode for myself, so I don't remember if it aired nationally or not.
-Jason
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There's a clip of another market-specific edition for Arizona (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rn75BTCh0c") elsewhere on the Tubes. Does anybody remember any others from their hometown? And did any other show do this? I remember Detroit radio personalities on Donnymid, but never saw the episode for myself, so I don't remember if it aired nationally or not.
Donnymid did this in Seattle as well, featuring Steve Pool and Kathy Goertzen of KOMO. IIRC, this episode preempted one of the Dick Clark episodes.
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I remember a local radio personality helping to win her partner the whopping sum of $600 on Pyramid, but I didn't remember the Steve/Kathi episode. I do, however remember an episode of Combs Feud where local Seattle TV news talent took on Seattle's radio personalities in a battle for supremacy in the 13th media market, as well as a $5,000 donation to Seattle's Children's Hospital, airing at the oh-so-accessible timeslot of 10:30p on a Wednesday.
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WJBK in Detroit aired a market-specific celebrity ep of "Joker's Wild" 90. Channel 2 weatherman David Rogers, Gil Hill (of Beverly Hills Cop fame) and the now-hated Denny McLain were the contestants. They were one of the few markets that ran TJW in prime access (at least at the start of the run).
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Regarding Market-specific episodes of game shows, were they just first-run syndicated ones that did this, or did daytime ones do them as well?
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I know Win Lose or Draw did a Baltimore-centric ep with the news crew from the station where it aired there...
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The syndicated Weakest Link did a New York radio DJ episode in season one- I don't know for sure if it was just aired here. (We were one of the single run markets for Link.)
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Win, Lose, Or Draw did an episode with WTVJ anchors (including long-stander Tony Segreto) playing against the Miami Dolphins in late 1988 for...some reason I can't fathom. The only clip I can find is a WTVJ report on the event, posted by "wolfsonarchive":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwDHJcxB0w
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I remember a local radio personality helping to win her partner the whopping sum of $600 on Pyramid, but I didn't remember the Steve/Kathi episode. I do, however remember an episode of Combs Feud where local Seattle TV news talent took on Seattle's radio personalities in a battle for supremacy in the 13th media market, as well as a $5,000 donation to Seattle's Children's Hospital, airing at the oh-so-accessible timeslot of 10:30p on a Wednesday.
10:30 PM on a Wednesday? Dang, that sounds like a weird time to have one of those specials. I'm wondering something here though: did the time that it aired have anything to do with a sporting event?
From what i've seen in the time i've been around(26 years), sometimes those specials, whether they be game show, or health or whatever are scheduled the way they are(and especially back when Ray Combs Family Feud was airing originally) because there was a sporting event airing the same night(MLB Playoffs, Monday Night Football, local sports, etc.).
What i'm thinking is there probably was a AL or NLCS game, or a World Series game, or a Monday Night Football game airing at 5 PM, or 6 PM, or 7 PM and then possibly the Family Feud episode aired after the sporting event and before the 11 PM news, sort of like a special lead in or something.
From reading old newspaper listings, Family Feud's syndicated version aired on KOMO 4 back then, which makes it airing after sports a definite possibility. Question is: am I correct, or just crazy; also, out of pure curiousity Travis, would you happen to know who was on each team? I know the latter is probably unlikely, but I would like to know why it was aired at 10:30 PM on a Wednesday.
Although like I said, the only reason I can think of why this happened was that ABC had an Baseball playoff game(and considering Ray Combs syndicated Feud debuted in fall 1988, and ABC had MLB coverage up until 1989, after which CBS took over in 1990, all this is likely; and then following the baseball, instead of KOMO airing regular ABC programming, they more then likely aired the special Combs Feud episode).
Sorry about being so long winded with the explanation, I guess I tend to do that a lot. Although just by looking at this post, I can guess what I wrote is the reason why it aired at 10:30 PM on a Wednesday; or maybe not.
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There didn't need to be a sporting event. I'm quite accustomed to seeing network coverage pre-empted for special local programming. In fact, I recall just the opposite situation from the OP, where I missed a prime-time Feud special because of local programming.
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10:30 PM on a Wednesday? Dang, that sounds like a weird time to have one of those specials. I'm wondering something here though: did the time that it aired have anything to do with a sporting event?
I remember that it was after my bedtime at the time, so it was ten or ten-thirty.
also, out of pure curiousity Travis, would you happen to know who was on each team? I know the latter is probably unlikely, but I would like to know why it was aired at 10:30 PM on a Wednesday.
The radio team had the two morning jocks on 96.5 KXRX (because that's how I knew about this; one of the people said "Hey, I'm on this show, please watch!") and three others, and the "Local Seattle TV" team was the anchor team on KOMO at the time (So probably you had Dan, Kathi, Steve Pool, Bruce King and someone else.)
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WJBK in Detroit aired a market-specific celebrity ep of "Joker's Wild" 90. Channel 2 weatherman David Rogers, Gil Hill (of Beverly Hills Cop fame) and the now-hated Denny McLain were the contestants. They were one of the few markets that ran TJW in prime access (at least at the start of the run).
I'm curious; any specific memories?
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WJBK in Detroit aired a market-specific celebrity ep of "Joker's Wild" 90. Channel 2 weatherman David Rogers, Gil Hill (of Beverly Hills Cop fame) and the now-hated Denny McLain were the contestants. They were one of the few markets that ran TJW in prime access (at least at the start of the run).
I'm curious; any specific memories?
I have it on tape somewhere, I'll have to find it.
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ISTR Syndie Weakest Link doing some radio DJ eps. Can anyone confirm/deny?
R.
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ISTR Syndie Weakest Link doing some radio DJ eps. Can anyone confirm/deny?
R.
Previously mentioned in my post earlier in this thread so there was at least one.
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The syndie WLOD did a special episode for the Pittsburgh market, too. All the players were on-air personalities from ABC affiliate WTAE, which aired the show locally. I think I still have it on tape somewhere.
Brendan
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WLS in Chicago had a WLoD episode Kevin Matthews local DJ and MR.Food looking a tool in a Chef's hat and apron.
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WLS in Chicago had a WLoD episode Kevin Matthews local DJ and MR.Food looking a tool in a Chef's hat and apron.
Tool or otherwise, that's his trademark (http://"http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/cleanplatecharlie/mrfoodartginsburg.jpg"). And "Ooh, it's so good."
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10:30 PM on a Wednesday? Dang, that sounds like a weird time to have one of those specials. I'm wondering something here though: did the time that it aired have anything to do with a sporting event?
I remember that it was after my bedtime at the time, so it was ten or ten-thirty.
also, out of pure curiousity Travis, would you happen to know who was on each team? I know the latter is probably unlikely, but I would like to know why it was aired at 10:30 PM on a Wednesday.
The radio team had the two morning jocks on 96.5 KXRX (because that's how I knew about this; one of the people said "Hey, I'm on this show, please watch!") and three others, and the "Local Seattle TV" team was the anchor team on KOMO at the time (So probably you had Dan, Kathi, Steve Pool, Bruce King and someone else.)
Cool; hopefully somebody has that Feud episode, or it ends up on YT someday, because it would be very interesting to see it.
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The syndie WLOD did a special episode for the Pittsburgh market, too. All the players were on-air personalities from ABC affiliate WTAE, which aired the show locally. I think I still have it on tape somewhere.
Do you remember who was on it? We used to watch that station all the time when it was on up here.
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The syndie WLOD did a special episode for the Pittsburgh market, too. All the players were on-air personalities from ABC affiliate WTAE, which aired the show locally. I think I still have it on tape somewhere.
Do you remember who was on it? We used to watch that station all the time when it was on up here.
I know one of them was Sally Wiggin, and I'm pretty sure Alby Oxenreiter was another. Don Cannon, too, I think.
Brendan
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WLS in Chicago had a WLoD episode Kevin Matthews local DJ and MR.Food looking a tool in a Chef's hat and apron.
WKRC aired a Cincinnati-based episode of WLoD in 1988 (IIRC).
Brian
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WLS in Chicago had a WLoD episode Kevin Matthews local DJ and MR.Food looking a tool in a Chef's hat and apron.
WKRC aired a Cincinnati-based episode of WLoD in 1988 (IIRC).
Brian
WLWT did a similar episode with Ray Combs doing Family Feud at Combs' Comedy Connection. Gawd awful!
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KGO in San Francisco had a local Wheel of Fortune with two-player teams from the Bay Area (the only celeb I remember from that episode was Warriors center Nate Thurmond), back when they did a week there (I'm pretty sure that was the "
Vanna's Pregnant Round 2 Missing" week).
(At least I think it aired only in SF; the first puzzle was "Clara Barton" (founder of the American Red Cross), if anybody else remembers seeing it.)
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Sorry for the bump, but watching some lottery game shows on youtube got me to thinking about this topic again.
Hypothetically, either through a state lottery or through another company, would remaking old game shows, but only having them air in one state or area, with local contestants, local hosts, or prizes provided by local companies work nowadays? Or is that era pretty much over with.
For example, using my home state(and the home state of a few members on the boards): Washington, would like a localized version of Tic Tac Dough or Pyramid, or even something somewhat short lived like Bullseye of Face The Music work nowadays? I mean not as a daily series, but say once a week on a network of stations throughout the state the show is meant for?
This is just a thought I had, and I would be curious to see if anyone responds to this or has anything to say about it.
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Sorry for the bump, but watching some lottery game shows on youtube got me to thinking about this topic again.
Hypothetically, either through a state lottery or through another company, would remaking old game shows, but only having them air in one state or area, with local contestants, local hosts, or prizes provided by local companies work nowadays? Or is that era pretty much over with.
For example, using my home state(and the home state of a few members on the boards): Washington, would like a localized version of Tic Tac Dough or Pyramid, or even something somewhat short lived like Bullseye of Face The Music work nowadays? I mean not as a daily series, but say once a week on a network of stations throughout the state the show is meant for?
This is just a thought I had, and I would be curious to see if anyone responds to this or has anything to say about it.
Lotteries are out because, by law, the games cannot involve skill of any kind. Everything has to be luck-based. As far as a local version of an old format, it's probably not worth the cost and effort.
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WLWT did a similar episode with Ray Combs doing Family Feud at Combs' Comedy Connection. Gawd awful!
Sorry to go off-topic, but wasn't that how Louie Anderson auditioned, doing Feud with his own family at one of his shows?
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Sorry for the bump, but watching some lottery game shows on youtube got me to thinking about this topic again.
Hypothetically, either through a state lottery or through another company, would remaking old game shows, but only having them air in one state or area, with local contestants, local hosts, or prizes provided by local companies work nowadays? Or is that era pretty much over with.
For example, using my home state(and the home state of a few members on the boards): Washington, would like a localized version of Tic Tac Dough or Pyramid, or even something somewhat short lived like Bullseye of Face The Music work nowadays? I mean not as a daily series, but say once a week on a network of stations throughout the state the show is meant for?
This is just a thought I had, and I would be curious to see if anyone responds to this or has anything to say about it.
Lotteries are out because, by law, the games cannot involve skill of any kind. Everything has to be luck-based. As far as a local version of an old format, it's probably not worth the cost and effort.
True on the lottery part. I kind of figured that wouldn't work; as for the local version of an old format, considering what TV is like nowadays, I probably would think it wouldn't be worth the cost or effort either. Although it was an interesting thought nonetheless.
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Lotteries are out because, by law, the games cannot involve skill of any kind. Everything has to be luck-based. As far as a local version of an old format, it's probably not worth the cost and effort.
So then, perhaps something not skill-based, in the DOND family?
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So then, perhaps something not skill-based, in the DOND family?
Especially not the SCSD.