-Art Sanders was almost hired on the spot. Bob really liked him a lot. Apparently, Bob didn't want to go through an exhausive search. Jim Thorton did better than I thought, but he was almost yanked after 1 day. The agreement was Daniel Rosen was terrible.
-Rich Fields will be still be working as a weatherperson until late May, when he
will work on Price full-time. He has a contract that goes through May sweeps. He also mentioned that he was in the audience 23 years ago and Johnny let him announce his name.
-Kathy Greco did not do contestant choosing for the Primetime specials. Sylvia and Jeff are no longer chosing contestants.
-The Switcheroo clock was not broken when the 99 year old man played.
-There will not be any retro clips on the Primetime special inducting Barker into the TV/Radio Hall of Fame. They weren't opposed to it, but there really wasn't time to do adequate research going through hundreds of tapes. There was an idea to show some clips from Truth or Consequences, but it seemed too much work to get them through Ralph Edwards. There will be a small speech by Les Moonves inserted into the show.
-The showcase podiums were partially changed because of Barker not having to lean over. The Eggcrate display was switched to eventually put a vent on the top to eliminate heat.
-If anyone noticed on the Primetime special when the contestant played Triple Play there was a blue panel in the background behind Barker. Apparently this was used because they didn't want the monitors and tables to be shown.
-The TPIR back audience logo that was changed for the Primetime specials (from the 30th season logo to a solid white/grey) is carried over to the daytime show.
-There was a recent article where it stated that CBS may be moving some of its facilities out of Television City and into a new building to be built in the Valley/Studio City. I don't think Price would be moving there because of all the money invested in the studio over the years, but you never know. The shows that were mentioned in the article that questioned what would happen with them were TPIR, Y&R, B&B, and the Late late show.
-The deal with the Grocery game on the Teachers $1M special was this. There is a price list next to the register with the products and certain amounts. The price list only lists up to 20 of each item. So in order to get 25, Brandi would have to enter 20 + 5 separately. She didn't know how to do that, so they said the register couldn't handle that.
