Davidson Pyramid had no station in NYC for its first season.

Granted it wasn't in NYC but didn't WLIG on Long Island pick up the first season and hadn't they gotten a Syndex-proof cable feed on most NYC cable systems by that point?

I know WTZA up in Kingston had both seasons of Davidson Pyramid but their cable carriage ended by White Plains and their OTA signal petered out by the Westchester/Bronx line.

but my wife (who was at one point a math teacher) says it shouldn't be, because it's neither higher nor lower, which was the bet. I don't agree, but she makes a fair point.

She's logically right, but there's no situation where a game show can come out looking good because they didn't provide a correct answer and then took money away from the contestant.

The distributor had a history with nbc and they were the anchor group such as they were. At one point New York was committed to replacing ruckus with it in access and the license fee would have been much higher—making Scott a possibility.  But as Sande said he was quite demanding.  And WNBC basically got cold feet.  So they asked the stations who were going to support it for feedback and with Squares still fresh in their memories they underscored the advertiser sentiment and hence John got his only gig with the Stewart regime

Would Blackjack be a good analogy? If the dealer and I both get an 18, I don't collect but I don't lose my bet either.

It reminds me of the CS contestant who got three or four pushes in a row, and I wanna say he went Bust. It made for an interesting blooper but it still feels like bad television.

For some reason, I wanna say they shot the entire season over the summer. I found a few episodes from that final season where he's the director and I'm guessing they were still bicycling.

Didn't know Stan was born in my hometown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrCrG5vWUfQ