Market-specific episodes

[pyrfan]

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

[opimus]

WLS in Chicago had a WLoD episode Kevin Matthews local DJ and MR.Food looking a tool in a Chef's hat and apron.

[MikeK]

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.  And "Ooh, it's so good."

[1984Gameshowsfan]

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.

[Steve Gavazzi]

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.

[pyrfan]

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

[brianhenke]

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

[toddyo]

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!

[That Don Guy]

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.)

[1984Gameshowsfan]

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.

[Jimmy Owen]

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.

[golden-road]

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?

[1984Gameshowsfan]

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.

[parliboy]

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?

[SuperMatch93]

So then, perhaps something not skill-based, in the DOND family?

Especially not the SCSD.