Wall Street Journal article

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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'137717\' date=\'Nov 13 2006, 08:21 AM\']
[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'137712\' date=\'Nov 13 2006, 03:13 AM\']
In the case of 1 vs 100, they likely don't have enough versions of the questions ready to use for MT viewers.
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I would find that REALLY hard to believe. Instead of two questions, they would need...three. I'm gonna guess it's more infrastructure-related, like they don't have the warm bodies to run the actual contest.

(Which would also surprise me, but a little less, because you would think they farm that out to a third-party company, anyhow.)
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Part of the gimmick is that the question is also given to the Mob--over the breaks, we see how many of the subgroups in that week's Mob answered it correctly and when the correct answer is revealed, we see how many of the entire Mob got it right.  It could be that there is only so much time they can get the Mob to stay and answer a few more questions that probably won't get them any money at all.  (They may tape some of these after the actual taping's over--I've seen question reveals with both people sitting in the audience on screen and no one sitting in that section next to the video screen.)  If they take six hours to tape an actual show, I could see the difficulty in getting them to stay more than a few minutes for a multitude of home viewer game questions--unless they're getting compensated for those questions one way or the other.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'137738\' date=\'Nov 13 2006, 01:30 PM\']
Part of the gimmick is that the question is also given to the Mob--over the breaks, we see how many of the subgroups in that week's Mob answered it correctly and when the correct answer is revealed, we see how many of the entire Mob got it right.
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1) Are you sure it's the current week's Mob? I don't remember them pointing out the individual subgroups.

2) Even so, if they're rolling tape, they need survey information for, say, three questions or so, to pick one to actually use. Everything else can be done digitally in post. I bet it takes all of ten minutes to get the B-roll for that. (At least, if they have anything close to a clue. So I could be wrong.)

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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'137740\' date=\'Nov 13 2006, 03:40 PM\']
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'137738\' date=\'Nov 13 2006, 01:30 PM\']
Part of the gimmick is that the question is also given to the Mob--over the breaks, we see how many of the subgroups in that week's Mob answered it correctly and when the correct answer is revealed, we see how many of the entire Mob got it right.
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1) Are you sure it's the current week's Mob? I don't remember them pointing out the individual subgroups.[/quote]

They did on last week's show--yes, for the first time.