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Bob Zager

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Repeat broadcasts and prize cues
« on: March 07, 2022, 03:16:43 PM »
While watching a repeat of TTTT on BUZZR, I was reminded of how when summer reruns aired, the consolation prize cues were edited, sometimes with a different announcer's voice and always with different products mentioned.  Say if the original said, "Our first team of challengers will receive Sarah Coventry jewelry," and the rebroadcast mentioned "Our first team of challengers will receive, a handsome Helbros watch."  Did the people who appeared on the show receive both items at separate times, provided both airings occurred in his/her hometown.  Or was it edited for other reasons.

Bryce L.

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Re: Repeat broadcasts and prize cues
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2022, 04:04:54 PM »
Can't speak to TTTT, but apparently NBC was rerunning daytime Wheel in 1981, and the contestants did get a second round of consolation prizes from them, per this...

https://wheeloffortunehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_timeline_(network)

* According to one recollection, the Game Show Hosts Week of November 1980 is rerun the week of June 29, one of the only known instances of daytime Wheel airing repeats, although it is not known how long this practice was done. For these airings, the original fee plugs are replaced by a new set of sponsors, and a cutaway is done afterward to a list of these sponsors.
 
** According to a Teen Week contestant (see below), the players are sent new parting gifts by Wheel in the form of checks from the replacement sponsors, "who hoped we'd use the money to buy some of their product".

* If surrounding information is any indication, the week of July 6 also consists of repeats.
* The Teen Week of April 13 is rerun the week of July 13.