First pre-recorded game show?

[chris319]

In his book Gil Fates mentions something about doing one WML? live and taping a second show immediately afterwards. I don't know when this practice began.

[Matt Ottinger]

In his book Gil Fates mentions something about doing one WML? live and taping a second show immediately afterwards. I don't know when this practice began.

I've Got a Secret was doing it from the time that Steve Allen took over in the fall of 1964, and possibly earlier.  A news report at the time said that they changed to the one-live-one-taped schedule as a convenience to Steve, who lived on the west coast.

[Matt Ottinger]

Another little snippet that I just noticed was on the same page as the Truth or Consequences article:

Sale of radio station WGMA in Hollywood, Fla., for $65,000 to a company headed by NBC-TV emcee Jack Barry ("Twenty-One" and "Tic-Tac-Dough") was okayed last week by the FCC.

[chris319]

$65,000? If the year was 1956, that's about $550,000 in 2012 dollars. That seems awfully cheap, even considering FM had barely come into existence in those days.

http://radiopages.net/radio/mikewgma.html

[toddyo]

Not really. Look at the market size, station power, signal contour, etc. and who actually had an FM radio in 1956.

[chris319]

Not really. Look at the market size, station power, signal contour, etc. and who actually had an FM radio in 1956.

Well, yeah. I see it was a 1 kW daytimer.