European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine associated press before there before the police before the variety show and Long before the there was the game the game along with the soap is televisions most durable form of in the first when Abc and Dumont together had Only 18 shows in prime two were game through the years the game shows popularity has it was once a network primetime but to has Long since relegated it to the morning but the game show has found new led by wheel of it has become a hot item again in the evening Pat Sajak presides Over successful game show wheel of a photo hours on the network affiliate stations and on Independent wheel of Fortune is the most successful show in the history of it regularly gets higher ratings than All but a handful of network an estimated 42 million people tune in every Day to watch Pat Sajak and cohost Vanna White give away in prizes for the nighttime version and for the daytime version on n since the Success of wheel of producers Are scrambling to create new game shows for the syndication at least a dozen shows arc now being offered to everybody loves to play games because there its As simple As says Murray president of Merv Griffin which makes wheel of jeopardy and the upcoming headline prior to the Only successful game show in primetime Access was family which is ending its Niney Marrun on Abc daytime and in primetime Access is the evening period before the networks begin their programming at 8 Eastern and Pacific time and 7 on it was created by the Federal communications commission to encourage a greater variety of programming and to give inde pendent producers a shot at the evening we Felt there was a real Lack of new programming in the Access time for a variety of says Michael who with his operates King world syndication one reason is that because of Cable penetration the stations were afraid of losing their they Felt they needed More local More More More Magazine they didst believe game shows were the Type of programming to combat the new and for these syndicator were not offering game when the King Brothers took on the Job of syndicating wheel of a Staple on abcs daytime they ran into another major they  sell the show in los Angeles or new a fact that had discouraged other game show we didst go to the big cities in the Roger we sold in the smaller cities and then worked our Way into the big at we were on Only 59 we risked everything we had to put that show into before wheel Fortune and another Griffin King world was Only a Small company offer ing the Little in a sudden its now reaping million a year from wheel alone plus Mil Lions More for its share of the advertising spots it Nancy the producer of says in a Telephone interview from North were Here to interview possible Young and says they watch the show every Day and get those people like the puzzles they like solving you dont have to be a Genius to i think people tune in because its some one told me they watch just to see what Vanna Whites and How her hair is someone else watches to play the someone else loves the Gam bling its a combination of Jones i think people Are ready for Good whether its a drama or a comedy or a game she believes the audience that watches wheel at night is different from the daytime audience and differ ent shows Are taped for Abc was reluctant at first to agree to syndication it feared the nighttime show would Siphon off its if the Day time version has the ratings have gone up to rated wheel of and second place jeep which Roger King Calls the Roll Royce of game were both created by talk show Host Merv Griffin still writes All of the questions for both wheel appears on 192 stations and brought Back after it had been off the air for a is on 158 july 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13