[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 6 2004, 03:19 PM\'] More OB game shows: Bea Benaderet started in radio at San Francisco station KFRC, the same station that carried the radio quiz "Pop the Question". If "Pop the Question" doesn't register with you then disregard this post. [/quote]
In the book
More Of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, there's a tale about another very influential game-show person who started his radio career at KFRC.
In brief: He had started by wanting to play the piano, but the station already had a pianist on staff. They were looking for a singer, he was hired and audiences loved him (KFRC billed him as the "Romantic Voice of America"). So much so that one fan ventured to KFRC's studios to meet him. When she met him, she was stunned to find that he was a 260-pound teenager. Then she started to laugh. He then resolved to lose the weight and found his way to few movies and eventually to television. And while the creation of J! and WoF didn't find its way into this Paul Harvey tale, we know him for so much more than his chat show. If anyone here doesn't know his name by now, {sarcasm alert}please kindly turn in your membership card at the door{end sarcasm alert}.
And now you know the rest of the story.
Doug -- soon to celebrate 300 posts
