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LOCAL QUIZ AND GAME SHOWS

gregg75

gregg75

WSB Atlanta has High Q which will soon start it's 26th year.

Two teams of 4 High School students match wits to see which is the smartest.
This goes on for 31 weeks and moves through semi-finals and finals. At the finale,
I think each winning team player gets a $2000 scholarship. I believe the 2nd place
team gets something also.

The best games are the ones where the schools are pretty much evenly matched.
Sometimes though it's a runaway, slam dunk for one team over the other. WSB
puts on a slick presentation which even Jeopardy would be proud of. This is the only
local game show in the Atlanta area.
 
WTHR/Indianapolis has Brain Game, which can in no way compete with Jeopardy! for production value. Similar concept to what Gregg described, I'm not sure how long the season lasts, the program runs 52 weeks.
 
Our local cable access channel (which airs in both the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas) had "Brainstorm", in which three panels of three high school students competed.

The show went off the air a couple years ago, probably due to sponsorship. One less real program on an infomercial-filled channel.
 
Miami:

In the spring of 1962, Jack Barry (of Joker's Wild fame) hosted "Hole in One," a game which featured a putting machine, on Ch 10. I sure wish I knew more about this show, as I watched it as a 3-year-old....but the Web has no info of it outside of an old Billboard magazine, from which i got the above info. Would the Barry estate maybe have info? Any help would be appreciated, even just a promo photo.

Ch 51 WKID had a weekly late-night entry, possibly in 1973, called "Sport vs. Spouse", where the husband/wife would wager on whether his/her spouse would know the answer to a sports-related question. A perfectly played game would maybe net ya $94. Seriously.

(I will not count "Bowling for Dollars" or "Dialing for Dollars," since they were franchised.)

The slickest one is currently running, and can be viewed online: WBEC-TV's "School Duel," basically a tweaking of "College Bowl." A champion school was crowned a couple of months ago, but I think it can be viewed either at www.becon.tv or www.schoolduel.tv ---It's possible that School Duel & Hi-Q are played exactly the same.

I am sure there were more, but I cannot think of any now.

BTW....he is an interesting one shown on a cable TV outfit in NC. You can view it:

http://boone.sqrambledscuares.biz/ (not a typo)

cd
 
WDIV/4 in Detroit for many years produced a local game show that was connected with the Michigan Lottery, and for a period of time was hosted by weatherman Chuck Gaidica. One of the games was called Megabucks Giveaway.

WPSU/3, the PBS station in State College/Altoona, Pennsylvania has long produced a game show called The Pennsylvania Game, which tests contestants' knowledge of Pennsylvania history. I am not sure if new episodes are still produced. The Pennsylvania Game has aired on various PBS stations throughout Pennsylvania over the years, although I can't say it still airs on WQLN in Erie.
 
Another one:

WKID ch 51 (see my above post) had "Telebingo," later spelled "Telybingo", maybe 1974ish. It was a 1-hour game show, which one would play at home, and try to get a bingo in the way the hostess explained to get it (like "letter H" or maybe "four corners"). It began on a station in Chattanooga TN which I think was WRIP ch 61. I think 61's was called "TV Bingo."

I am almost sure that ch 5 (maybe ch 12) in West Palm Beach had a TV bingo show in the late 60s as well, but I forget how it went. And I believe it was 30 minutes.

cd
 
On KCBS-TV here in L.A. we had "Kidquiz" hosted by KCBS weatherman Maclovio Perez that aired early Saturday mornings from the early 1980s until about the mid-1990s.

The show featured two Southern California high schools basically competing in a college bowl type tournament.
 
I think most major and medium markets had those high school quiz shows. I know there was one serving W. Oregon and S.W. Washington based in Portland that may still be airing. I vote for bringing these back. They are entertaining, promote school rivalry, and most importantly, promote learning. Good public service programming that never should have gone away.
 
wncc said:
cd637299 said:
BTW....he is an interesting one shown on a cable TV outfit in NC. You can view it:

http://boone.sqrambledscuares.biz/ (not a typo)

cd
Click to expand...

This is actually on WLNN-LP in Boone, NC.
Click to expand...

Not a bad game, especially for an LPTV!! Too many "$25 dinners" though....& that sweetened laughter can be irritating....but for a mom & pop game show, it's certainly one of the better ones.

cd
 
CBS powerhouse WRAL-TV in Raleigh has had "Brain Game" on-air for at least ten years, with Ralwigh-Durham-Fayetteville area high schools competing in a bracket during the traditional school year. Chief meteorologist Greg Fishel hosted this for many year, until former reporter/ traffic guy Mark Roberts too over maybe five years ago or so.
 
"I know there was one serving W. Oregon and S.W. Washington based in Portland that may still be airing."

"High Five Challenge"; host was Wayne Faligowsky; sponsorship by Smith's Home Furnishings (defunkt) and later Hollywood Video (also now defunkt). It began on KPTV in 1993 and remained there until 2002, then OPB for at least a season, then to KPDX. The web page says it is running on KPDX on Sundays at 1230, but their most recent schedule is for the 2008-2009 period. I don't believe it's running any more; I haven't seen any on-air promotion for the show in quite a while.

A group of my fellow Evergreen Plainsmen competed on High Five in either 2000 or 2001. Yours Truly was also asked to be on the team, but I declined for reasons I don't recall.

[size=8pt]Links outta here:
http://www.high-five.com/ Programme web page (dialup warning: includes Flash Video content)
http://home.comcast.net/~kptv/programs/highfive.htm Independent history page
 
In Pittsburgh we have Hometown High-Q on KDKA-TV, hosted by KD news personality
Ken Rice for the past decade.

It was preceded by Junior High Quiz, hosted by Ricki Wertz, which ran on WTAE-TV
through the 60's and up in to the late 70's.
 
If you want to go 'way back, there are a couple of local shows
which made it to the networks, both out of Los Angeles (KTLA,
if I'm not mistaken). "Seven Keys" debuted locally in LA in 1960,
was picked up by ABC in 1961, and following its cancellation in
1964 returned to KTLA until early 1965. Jack Narz, AFAIK, hosted
all the way. Jack Barry hosted a local version of "You Don't Say!"
beginning in November 1962, but when NBC picked it up in 1963 Tom
Kennedy became host and will forever be associated with it and the
'70s version of "Name That Tune."

"Queen For A Day" aired on several West Coast stations in the early
'50s, even while Mutual carried it on radio. NBC picked it up for national
television in 1956; the show moved to ABC in 1960 and ran until 1964.
 
Two entries:

- It's Academic, a high school quiz show has been running on WRC in Washington since 1961 (it's in the Guiness Book for the longest running quiz show)

- Tribune's WGNO in New Orleans developed a local quiz show "N.O. It Alls". it was franchised out to other areas (I know I have a Texas Know It Alls on tape).

J
 
Nashville's WNAB-58 (CW) has a seasonal high school competition called "Quizbusters".
 
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