![]() Game shows were once a mainstay of daytime broadcast television, the land of the unhip, but are much less common today. Trebek similarly had a strong pedigree of television hosting, much of it in Canada, before he became host of “Jeopardy!” Where's the pipeline now? Dick Clark would need it when taping 10 episodes of “The 10,000 Pyramid” in a day. Game shows were once shown live, or taped with hardly any interruptions, so the skill of an experienced broadcaster used to those conditions was prized, Nedeff said. “He's kind of the last of the old school,” said Adam Nedeff, author and researcher for the National Archive of Game Show History at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. He'll be forever known for standing onstage at the wheel, with Vanna White at the board. But he was 35 years old when he started hosting “Wheel of Fortune” and will be 77 when he leaves next year. He has a handful of other entries on his resume, disc jockey (many of his ilk also got their start in radio) and television weatherman among them. Ryan Seacrest JWhy is Pat Sajak the last of his breed?īack in 1984, a much younger Sajak was pictured on the cover of TV Guide alongside Wink Martindale, Monty Hall, Bill Cullen, Jack Barry and Barker.Įach of the other men was known primarily as broadcast television game show hosts.
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