KAMC: "Behind The Wheel", 1987

A report by KAMC reporter Scott Kamp goes behind the scenes at Wheel of Fortune.

Interestingly enough, both anchor Sharon Maines and "Wheel" itself are on KCBD these days.

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• KAMC
• ABC
• Lubbock
• Wheel
• of
• Fortune
• Sharon
• Maines
• Scott
• Kamp

[djcchs2004]

So that is how to remove the wheel for the new configuration.

[tvpirate05]

Interesting to see how Wheel was such a "modest" show back then...

Even more interesting on how Nancy and Scott predicted success for the future of the show ("So, as long as the numbers add up, the wheel may spin into the next century..."), but still probably didn't expect it to be #1 over 20 years later.

[megamanj2004X]

I never noticed how unbelieveably small the Wheel set at NBC Studios really was. Once production went to Studio 33 at CBS-TV, the space was far less cramped.

[ttugarygregory]

@gameshowguy2000 They used both versions of the Spirit package until about the mid-90's. With the staff they exchanged I used to call them "little-WFAA".

[bluebear1985]

Interesting to note that it eventually would go into a new studio, Studio 33 at CBS, in 1989. By 1995, they would be at the Sony Pictures Studios. They have been there ever since.

[gshowguy]

As far as the syndicated version of Wheel (and Jeopardy!) is concerned in the Lubbock market, what stations aired them, and what period was it?

[VirtuaCory]

wow...Jeff Klotzman and Sharon maines

[zachhoran]

Of course they haven't changed the wheel between rounds/during commercial breaks in that manner since the second week of the 1996-97 season.

[gsnman]

I grew up watching the "shopping" set, hoping to have a ceramic dog of my own as a little boy.

[texroj80]

jeff klotzman, who has been the lead anchor on fox 34 in lubbock for something like 10 years, since the inception of kjtv's newscast...