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Pat Sajak will stop turning the wheel after 41 years.

Seacrest is a great choice. Seems like a nice guy. Middle America has/will accept him. He's plotted his career fantastically.
 
Mikey Radio said:
I know it's not the same thing by any means, but consider the NPR radio program A Prairie Home Companion. When Garrison Kiellor retired it was supposed to remain basically the same show, but with a new host that Keillor himself had hand-picked and that's more or less what listeners were told. In reality, over time, it transitioned to being a more music-centric show. Then the original APHC acting company and other on-air contributors departed little by little. Then they stopped using the theater in Minneapolis and started broadcasting almost exclusively from New York City. Then after Keillor's harassment claims, they changed the name of the show. Eventually it was cancelled. Many felt that listeners left because they were promised it was going to remain "the same" and over time it became less and less the same and transformed. Had they just made a clean break and then brought in a new host, new name, taken it in a different direction and had set no expectations, they may have been better off.
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It was such a good show with Garrison. I liked his monologues and the comedy, and some of the music sounded good. With the new show, even the music wasn't any good in my opinion.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
The what route? Seriously?

How about the good host route. The idea someone Black got one of those gigs simply for “the diversity route” is inane. They got the jobs on their merits.
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I think I am remembering correctly that at one point ABC on Sunday started with Alfonso Ribeiro on "America's Funniest Home Videos", followed by Steve Harvey on "Celebrity Family Feud", Michael Strahan on "Pyramid" and Anthony Anderson on "To Tell the Truth".
 
My wife loves Wheel and has the kind of brain that allows her to solve the puzzles way before most of the actual contestants. She will miss watching Wheel when Seacrest takes over. For whatever reason she can't stand him and I would be very surprised if she watches when he is hosting. I'll bet she isn't the only one and I'm sure there will be a big ratings dip, maybe one that the show won't recover from.
 
valvashon said:
My wife loves Wheel and has the kind of brain that allows her to solve the puzzles way before most of the actual contestants. She will miss watching Wheel when Seacrest takes over. For whatever reason she can't stand him and I would be very surprised if she watches when he is hosting. I'll bet she isn't the only one and I'm sure there will be a big ratings dip, maybe one that the show won't recover from.
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Of course there are people who won’t watch, and those who will start watching. Let’s not pretend Sony didn’t have data to use in making this decision.
 
Ryan Seacrest is the hardest worker in entertainment does he ever take a break, I know Wheel is taped and can tape a few shows in a day, etc. It is a good hire I have always liked Ryan I watched some of his hosting before he became a house hold name with Idol he was the host of Gladiators 2000, Click was on in weekend syndication in 97 was on Wood TV at 12:30PM, he also filled in on Change Of Hart.
 
genius said:
www.thecut.com

Apparently, Vanna White Hasn’t Gotten a Raise in 18 Years

Pay this card-turning icon what she deserves!
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It could be that Vanna, at $3MM a year, was getting paid what the producers perceived she was worth. If she disagreed, she could have refused to re-up any time her contract was up for renewal. The producers would then have had to reconsider, or let her walk and take the short-term hit.

I suspect everyone acted rationally: Vanna, by recognizing she was hauling in a buttload of money for turning letters and looking pretty on a TV game show a few days a month, and the producers by recognizing they might get someone younger and save some money, but risk viewer loyalty and the show's ratings and profits in the process. Vanna, at minimum, should have fired her agent for not negotiating annual cost-of-living bumps in her package. (Though we're assuming they didn't, which may not be true.) Though the annual bonuses might have been the same thing.
 
Weiserguy said:
It could be that Vanna, at $3MM a year, was getting paid what the producers perceived she was worth. If she disagreed, she could have refused to re-up any time her contract was up for renewal. The producers would then have had to reconsider, or let her walk and take the short-term hit.

I suspect everyone acted rationally: Vanna, by recognizing she was hauling in a buttload of money for turning letters and looking pretty on a TV game show a few days a month, and the producers by recognizing they might get someone younger and save some money, but risk viewer loyalty and the show's ratings and profits in the process. Vanna, at minimum, should have fired her agent for not negotiating annual cost-of-living bumps in her package. (Though we're assuming they didn't, which may not be true.) Though the annual bonuses might have been the same thing.
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All good points. Plus consider that Vanna's wardrobe and jewelry is probably included/paid for.

Until there is a tell-all book, we don't know how close Vanna and Pat are. Would Pat be so cold that he is paid FIVE TIMES more than Vanna without speaking up for her? And I don't believe that Pat doesn't know how much Vanna makes.
 
Weiserguy said:
It could be that Vanna, at $3MM a year, was getting paid what the producers perceived she was worth. If she disagreed, she could have refused to re-up any time her contract was up for renewal. The producers would then have had to reconsider, or let her walk and take the short-term hit.

I suspect everyone acted rationally: Vanna, by recognizing she was hauling in a buttload of money for turning letters and looking pretty on a TV game show a few days a month, and the producers by recognizing they might get someone younger and save some money, but risk viewer loyalty and the show's ratings and profits in the process. Vanna, at minimum, should have fired her agent for not negotiating annual cost-of-living bumps in her package. (Though we're assuming they didn't, which may not be true.) Though the annual bonuses might have been the same thing.
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brian4 said:
All good points. Plus consider that Vanna's wardrobe and jewelry is probably included/paid for.

Until there is a tell-all book, we don't know how close Vanna and Pat are. Would Pat be so cold that he is paid FIVE TIMES more than Vanna without speaking up for her? And I don't believe that Pat doesn't know how much Vanna makes.
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According to a few news articles, Vanna hasn't been given a raise in 18 years...But either that's the contract she and her agents worked out and agreed to, or she must not have been too upset or hurt about it, or she'd likely have said something at some point within the last 18 years to speak up if she felt it was unfair.
 
Yeah, why hasn't Vanna fired her agent to get her some more money and a raise that is what I'd do if I was her agent? Shouldn't Vanna be close to making close to $10 million a year?
 
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