Does anyone know when on TPIR when Rod says "This is Rodddddddddddddddddddddd Roddy. Speaking for TPIR. A Mark Goodson Production."

Does anyone know if he says that live or is it just a recording? Because it sounds the same every single day when you watch it.

Its gotta be a recording !!!

If it was "live" then after awhile you would notice slight changes in pitch and such. Just like one hears at the end of a show over the credits " stay tuned for Eyewitness News next ..here on Baltimore 13" , that IS taped. I had a good friend who made serious money doing this for various tv stations across the county.
He would cut the track from his in-house studio and then send the cd to the various tv stations. There is a guy not far from my area ( Blake Allen ) who did the exact same thing for MSNBC. He may still be doing it/

Kinda like to local dj. Some days one can tell he/she is happy, mad, has a cold ect..

But with so many radio djs now doing their show in advance by recording them ( called voice tracks ) instead of doing them "live",
it'll be hard to notice that too. Same pitch all the time.

I call it boring.

I kinda think its a recording like if you go to the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey (like I do every summer because I'm from Philly) you hear that phrase "WATCH THE TRAM CAR PLEASE", and that sounds the same every day. So Rod and the tram car are probably just recordings. Anyone else give men opinioNS?

It's live.

It can't be live because at often times Rod Roddy is with Bob Barker and the models and the contestants while the credits crawl.

That's not an opinion. It is live.

Technically, it can't be live since TPiR's are taped a month or two in advance, lol.

Seriously,

I THINK it's live.

If you did the same thing 4 days a week for 15 years, by a certain point, you would perfect doing it eventually. The reason it always stays the same is that, by my guess, Rod has the whole thing memorized, Voice tones and all.

At often times it is never different. Rod is usually out of his announcing booth at the end of the show and they probably hit a button.....

Plus I doubt he's memorized it because he recently had cancer surgery.

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This is your announcer Harvey/Joe Conklin/Bob Lorman saying join us next time on Finders Keepers.

live or taped, I doubt we'll ever know the answer for this one.

With so much tech stuff in tv like editing, its possible though unlikely they do, CBS can create a TPIR WITHOUT the Models and Rod Roddy.

CBS/Goodson could tape Roddy looking at the camera and then have him tape the names of the people selected as contestants.
It can be edited right down to a T so much so that it would be very difficult to tell.

The models could tape many of their scenes too and have the studio audience look at the monitors, but to us viewers it would look like they are "live" in the studio.

Its possible and it can be done though I doubt CBS is not now or will be doing this in the future.

Heck you can even "bring back" Larry Blyden or Bill Cullen and "recreate" a new game show thanks to editing and computer work. Sounds crazy almost science fiction but its possible.

Radio is already done a lot like this. I do a late night classic rock radio show. Last summer I taped my entire show in advance while I went up to Toronto for vacation. So I was able to "be on the air" back at home while I was in Canada at the same time. The average listener didnt know the difference. In fcat I had many " ...I thought you were on vacation"..comments.

All this reminds me of a story that I read recently, though its not about game shows it fits here.

To save money the Sinclair TV Group who owns stations across the country is having their flagship station WBFF-TV a FOX station out of Baltimore to take control of the weather for all the Sinclair stations. In other words if you are watching a Sinclair station in Iowa ( if they own a station there ) and you are watching the weather on the local news , the weatherman will actually be in Baltimore, not Iowa doing the weather. Of course this is the question about how someone in Baltimore knows what is going on weatherwise in Iowa, but with sats. , radar and such
who would know? News can do done that way too, in fact some station groups are planning to do just that and keep only a reporter or two at the station on a local level.

All to save money. Strange you got to spend lots of it to save.

You WILL know the answer, I can tell you right now. It is most definitely live. Just because he's not in the announcing booth means nothing. There are other microphones. It is live.

Originally posted by PPatters
You WILL know the answer, I can tell you right now. It is most definitely live. Just because he's not in the announcing booth means nothing. There are other microphones. It is live.

If what you say is indeed correct, then Roddy & TPIR is an exception. Then again Barker & Roddy are from the old school of game shows and since Roddy only does TPIR then I can see Roddy do "live".

However in the past I have read here ( and elsewhere ) that when one hears an announcer on tv say over the closing/opening credits
"..tonight on The Simpsons Bart & Lisa have a fight and Marge gets slapped..thats next her on Fox 5" or "you're watching WAZT Eyewitness News @ 5:30 with Phil Luttrel and Alan Earhardt's Accu-weather" that is done live. Cant speak for all channels out there but for the most part thats not true. That is taped. One reason why one hears the same announcer on various stations across the country. Besides with so many stations laying off people, usually the first one shown the door is the station announcer. Just like radio, if a radio station fails in the ratings or is having money problems, who gets axed first..the announcers.

I'm curious, were you ever on TPIR? I had a friend once whose buddy was ( this was back in the 80s ) and he says that neither Barker or the Barker babes werent all that friendly. Once the show's taping stopped Barber and the babes were way gone. Always wondered what goes on there during station breaks.

He did tell me that Roddy was very nice. He remembers Roddy from the days Roddy was a rock dj out of Buffalo on WKBW.

I also wonder what kinds of questions they ask before you go into the studio? I read once where each member of the studio audience is interviewed before they are seated in the studio as thats how the choose the contestants.

I have never been a contestant on the show, no. (I'm only 15.) This is information I get from a person I know over the internet who has visited places like ATGS that is currently an announcer in the business.