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[edit] Auditions
Someone added this text to the Jeopardy! audition process article; but it should definitely go here instead (if verified).
- Wheel of Fortune audition process
- A similar audition process is used for Wheel of Fortune. Instead of taking a 50-question test, potential contestants are given a 16-puzzle test divided into four categories with some letters revealed (similar to the program's bonus round). The contestants have 5 minutes to solve as many puzzles as they can by writing in the correct letters. A passing score is considered to be 12 out of 16 but like Jeopardy!, exact scores are never given. The people who pass stay for a while to compete in a mock version of the game using a miniature wheel and a puzzleboard.
Cheers,--Aervanath (talk) 13:37, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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- Source: [[1]] This verifies everything but the "A passing score" sentence. JTRH (talk) 14:03, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- Added it. Us441(talk)(contribs) 10:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] NBC's brief cancellation of the show in 1980
I think the Randy West-sourced statement about the daytime show's brief cancellation in 1980 is incorrect. I've read (but don't remember where just now) that Silverman reversed the decision to cancel it because it was NBC's highest-rated daytime show (or at least game show), not because the decision was made to cut the Letterman show from 90 minutes to 60. The Letterman show was 90 minutes when it premiered, and was cut to an hour after it had been on the air for several weeks. The shows that were cancelled to make room for Letterman (in the 90-minute format) were Card Sharks, Hollywood Squares, and the second NBC version of High Rollers. I can't disprove Randy's statement without more research, so I'm going to leave it for now, but it may be subject to change in the future if I can source it. JTRH (talk) 21:05, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, while I know this is seven months after the fact, Wheel was poised for cancellation twice in 1980 – while the first was being among the candidates to be ousted for Letterman (an idea dismissed by May), the second was followed through to the point of a series finale being taped for August 1. As I understand it, Silverman realized that Letterman was struggling as a 90-minute series and hence it was chopped down on August 4. (The cancellation announcement was why Charlie O'Donnell was replaced by Jack Clark, as the former left to do another series.) Also, Randy West is/was friends with and has myriad connections in the game show industry – he, Fred Wostbrock, and Roger Dobkowitz are among the most knowledgeable and trustworthy people in the genre. -Daniel Benfield (talk) 03:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Biggest wins and losses on Wheel of Fortune
The page "Biggest wins and losses on Wheel of Fortune" has been moved to "Talk:Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)/Biggest wins and losses" in order to preserve history of this article. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Current information
The show is still on the air. Need current host information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.109.56.32 (talk) 00:19, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
