This is the week that Wait Wait Don't Tell name is recording their 1,000 and 1,001 shows. Thursday is the 1,000 show which will be recorded and edited down and broadcast this week, Friday show will be recorded, and may air some of it on a week that they don't tape a new show, they may air the Bluff the Listener segment and the Not My Job Guest from that show, like this past weekend they didn't do a new show taping so they aired some never heard before segments including Renée Fleming that was recorded on a Friday night in Vienna, Va. This week they are traveling to the same state that hosted their first ever live taping in Salt Lake City Utah, and this week they will be recording in Salt Lake City at the Eccles Theater. It's hard to believe now, since the show is recorded in front of a live audience, that they used to didn't the host of the show it started with another host before a revamping of the show, led to Peter Sagal becoming host in May of 1998, will be in Chicago, Carl Kassell that served as the original announcer and score keeper of the show, would record his part in Washington DC as he still was the morning news anchor on Morning Edition, and then the panelists selected for the show, would be scattered about, they might have called in from their home cities, or anywhere in the world. And in May of 2005 the show started recording on a regular basis in Chicago in the basement of the Chase Tower, which its Chicago home in less they do a taping in Millennium Park, which they have done over the years.
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Wait Wait Don't Tell Me records their 1000th and 1001 shows this week
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Love me some Peter Sagal...and Bill Kurtis too! One of the best and funniest programs on NPR. Congrats to them on 1000 shows. Carl Kasell is smiling from heaven's answering machine. They came to Seattle a few years back. Hope they can come back to the NW soon. Perhaps in Central Washington!
Love them too, but honestly I have no idea when they will come back to Seattle, they have their road taping dates set for this year, they have no road dates for December, as they will record in Chicago, so they might come back in 2020. I don't know where they will have road tapings in 2020, I don't think they do either. Or who sets up these road tapings, but you can always look at https://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/110997820/see-the-show-live , they update when road tapings are known. And Peter Sagal will announce them on air as well, their final Chicago taping date of a new episode for 2019 is December 19, and then they don't have another taping date again in Chicago until January 9th.
Giles Snyder starts his newscast with the word "live", but is he really? Don't Peter and Bill do their introduction right at 10 (on stations that run the show at 10, as WFAE does)? Somehow I don't think it happens before 10.
I would think he would be live in less that stations started the show earlier, or if Peter and Bill didn't do a 1 minute segment during the taping this past Thursday night which was Halloween. Have you looked to see if your local NPR station does an encore, as I would believe that many will have the encore of it during the weekend even tomorrow. WBEZ in Chicago that is the home station and Chicago is the home city for Wait Wait Don't Tell Me does also air the show for the first time on a Saturday morning.
Not sure if he was impatient to start his news cast, or if the state had started it earlier, but you are right the standard time for the news cast would be 1 minute after the top of the hour, that is in less Peter and Bill didn't do the usual 1 minute open at the beginning of the taping, so did he had to fill in time?
The hourly newscast is always live and always starts at :01. It's completely independent of whatever show any given station is running around it. The same newscast you're hearing at 10:01 ET during Wait Wait is being heard at 7:01 PT on stations that are carrying Weekend Edition.
Peter and Bill always do an introduction even for episodes with mostly rebroadcasts. I wish the podcasts included it because occasionally I somehow miss it, such as when there are fundraisers.
WFAE does an encore on Sunday but based on the topics it was new on Saturday.
I wish so do but even with the podcasts they shorten the shoe even more as they don't include when they go to the 1 minute break that they do on the broadcast of the show on the radio, so it is shortened up even more. That why you are better off if you can listen to the radio broadcast. But i still think it is better live, as you get to see the full show including the material that doesn't make it to the radio broadcast. Some things you might have an idea that won't make the broadcast, but for a lot it is hard to say.
A lot of missing material is done on "best of" shows.
I just realized the title of this thread is much longer than I thought.
We are on the sencdon page, and you are right there are sometimes they will play material on a best of show when they don't tape a new show, but I bet you would think that thefty would have enough un aired material to fill an hour.
WFDD used to have Giles Snyder during "Car Talk" and the guys spent less time telling us who sponsored their program, or at least something was left out during the breaks. I don't remember anything preceding the show but I normally listened to WFAE which didn't have Giles Snyder.
DO they even have a national announcer or do they just fill the time with local news?
I was hoping someone would know what stations did if "Car Talk" was preceded by news. I don't remember. WFDD dropped that show even before the rest of the NPR stations did.
I would think it was but I never really listened to the show even when it used to air here before Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
"Car Talk" is an outlier where program clocks are concerned, probably because its origins predate the "standard" weekend show clock that most public radio shows use.
I just checked the internal site that NPR member station employees can access for program clocks, and the "Best of Car Talk" version that's still in limited distribution does not have a billboard or a news hole. There's a 35-second funding credit right at the top of the hour, then segment 1 runs from 00:35 to 17:55. There are two internal breaks in the show with national sponsorship and holes for local promos, from 17:55-20:35 and from 37:55 to 40:35, and then another underwriter at the end before the show wraps at 59:00.
I'm nearly certain this program clock is the same one that was in use when they were still making fresh shows. I very, very rarely filled in for our weekend local newscasters, but when I did, we did local news at 7:04 during what's now On Being, then at 8:04 and 9:04 during Weekend Edition, but there was not a local newscast at 10:04, when we were in Car Talk.
I just checked the internal site that NPR member station employees can access for program clocks, and the "Best of Car Talk" version that's still in limited distribution does not have a billboard or a news hole. There's a 35-second funding credit right at the top of the hour, then segment 1 runs from 00:35 to 17:55. There are two internal breaks in the show with national sponsorship and holes for local promos, from 17:55-20:35 and from 37:55 to 40:35, and then another underwriter at the end before the show wraps at 59:00.
I'm nearly certain this program clock is the same one that was in use when they were still making fresh shows. I very, very rarely filled in for our weekend local newscasters, but when I did, we did local news at 7:04 during what's now On Being, then at 8:04 and 9:04 during Weekend Edition, but there was not a local newscast at 10:04, when we were in Car Talk.
Like Mr. Fybush, I never heard Car Talk with the hourly newscast. I wonder if WFDD did their own thing for that, maybe pushing Car Talk back by 2-5 minutes.
It occurs to me that when WBUR started producing Car Talk, there may not even have been an NPR hourly newscast available for the hours when Car Talk would have been running. The full 24/7 slate of hourlies didn't start until after 9/11, as I recall.
In any event, it certainly would have been possible for a station like WFDD to have run the Car Talk segments delayed by a few minutes to play the network news, especially if you then pull out the two 60-second blocks of filler music at :19 and :39. The show would then end a little past the top of the hour, but if whatever's next is local and not another timed-to-the-hour national show, so what if you're ending at :01 or :02?
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