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05-19-2021, 01:05 PM
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Why not a 24/7 Wheel of Fortune channel?
From doing a quick reading on Wikipedia, there was 7,000 Sajak/White episodes as of 2019, so now it is probably around 7,400 shows.
Why not have a 24 hour, 7 day a week channel that shows nothing but reruns of Wheel of Fortune? I calculate it would take 97 days and 5 hours to watch 7000 episodes of Wheel of Fortune. 7000 episodes (x) 20 minutes=140,000 minutes/60=2333.3 hours/24=97.2 days. Adding in commercials running all 7,000 shows might take around four to five months. This can also work with Jeopardy and since Alex Trabek is now dead, people might be clamoring to see him in reruns, and his show has been on about as long as Wheel of Fortune. I am sure that Merv Griffin Enterprises or whoever owns the show has all the episodes in some vault or wherever, why don’t they do this? Seems like a moneymaker to me. |
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05-19-2021, 03:00 PM
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I would love to see this myself.
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05-19-2021, 03:08 PM
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Sounds like a great idea to me as WOF is a wildly popular show.
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05-19-2021, 04:36 PM
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I believe CBS Media Ventures has distribution rights but Sony owns it? I don't know if CBS' rights extend to digital or the library but it would be a great idea for Pluto TV.
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05-19-2021, 10:49 PM
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I think it's a great idea. But, the owners or affiliates airing the new episodes might be concerned that a 24x7 channel or block of reruns elsewhere, would dilute from viewership of the primary episode in syndication.
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05-20-2021, 01:41 AM
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That would be awesome!!!!!!
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05-20-2021, 05:44 AM
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I wouldn't mind seeing some of the Chuck Woolery episodes again (original host).
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05-20-2021, 09:39 AM
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Some of the solved puzzles from the old episodes might be politically incorrect today
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05-20-2021, 01:42 PM
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Lets do it dues!!!!!
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05-20-2021, 02:00 PM
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Hey, why not. It would be better than 99.9 percent of all the other channels.
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05-21-2021, 08:37 AM
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Agreed! I would like to see the Syndie Wheel episodes from 1983 to 1996 if the 24/7 WOF channel were existed.
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