game show host salaries
maestro
host in the early 1970's, specifically 1971-75. A ballpark figure
would be great, some actual salary examples would be even better. I
am particularly interested in salaries for panel show hosts (What's My
Line, To Tell the Truth, etc.).
Thanks!
James R. Owen
earners-men like Bob Barker, Peter Marshall, Jack Barry and Gene
Rayburn-command up to $5000 a week, 52 weeks a year (no reruns)."
chris319
>earners-men like Bob Barker, Peter Marshall, Jack Barry and Gene
>Rayburn-command up to $5000 a week, 52 weeks a year (no reruns)."
That figure is for "top earners" and is perhaps a little high for Chuck Woolery
hosting WOF during that era. Jack Barry made more than his MC salary by
co-owning shows that he and others emceed -- same with Monty Hall.
Robair
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Apparently, NBC thought the same thing about Chuck's salary being
too high...
--Robair
chris319
>Woolery
> hosting WOF during that era.
>Apparently, NBC thought the same thing about Chuck's salary being
>too high...
I was saying that Woolery probably wasn't making $5,000 per week, not that his
salary, whatever that might have been, was too high.
Curt Alliaume
writes:
The figure bandied about by Jeff Graham was $300,000 for Chuck circa 1982,
eight years after the TV Guide article. Barker and Rayburn were making about
$260,000 a year in 1974, if that article is taken as gospel.
I guess the question is who's making what *now*. There's got to be a big
difference between Pat Sajak's salary and John O'Hurley's.
-- Curt Alliaume
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Chuck Bullard
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> I guess the question is who's making what *now*. There's got to be a big
> difference between Pat Sajak's salary and John O'Hurley's.
Louie Anderson makes $75K/wk, if that helps.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
chris319
OK, so a "veteran" emcee making $5,000 per week in the '80s has the misfortune
of landing a show which lasts just 13 weeks. His total take for the entire run
amounts to $65,000 -- less than Louie makes in a single week. To quote Dean
Martin, "ain't that a kick in the head?".
But then Louie is sooooo much better than Rayburn, Marshall, Cullen, etc. that
it isn't even worth discussing.
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Curt Alliaume
$75K/week for the weeks he tapes episodes (let's say there are ten weeks with
tapings; that's $750,000 a year), $75K/week for each week of first-run episodes
(39 weeks of first-run episodes = $2,925,000), or $75K/week for all 52 weeks of
the year (52 weeks = $3,900,000)? Could be a big difference.
That $5,000 figure was from 1974, but the point is well taken. Bill Cullen did
a bunch of short-run shows (Winning Streak, Blankety Blanks, Pass the Buck);
fortunately he had a steady salary as a TTTT panelist and a side income doing
the syndie Pyramid over that time.
Rayburn, Marshall, and Allen Ludden, on the other hand, seemed to be one-trick
ponies; they never had *truly* successful shows other than the obvious ones.
(Unless someone wants to argue the merits of Dough Re Mi.)
Matt Ottinger
I'd be curious about what a "week" means here. If it means that he gets
$75K for every five shows he tapes (a "week" of shows), that means they'd be
paying him more than three million a year, and that's just nuts. However,
if we're talking about a more traditional "work week", in which he could
tape many weeks' worth of shows, then the $75K figure makes a little more
sense.
<chris319> wrote in message ...
> But then Louie is sooooo much better than Rayburn, Marshall, Cullen, etc.
that
> it isn't even worth discussing.
OK, Chris, I know you're joking, but I'm trying to keep my turkey down here,
please don't post sentences like that anymore.
--Matt
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Dixon Hayes
>Rayburn, Marshall, and Allen Ludden, on the other hand, seemed to be
>one-trick
>ponies; they never had *truly* successful shows other than the obvious ones.
I'm not sure exactly what Marshall made for "The Hollywood Squares", but an
early '70s interview in TV Guide implied it was a lot more than $5,000 per
episode. Plus he did five a week for the NBC show and two a week for the
syndicated version and apparently invested that money well...
Dixon
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"Matt Ottinger" <otti...@acd.net> wrote in message
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> > >Louie Anderson makes $75K/wk, if that helps.
>
> I'd be curious about what a "week" means here. If it means that he gets
> $75K for every five shows he tapes (a "week" of shows), that means they'd
be
> paying him more than three million a year, and that's just nuts. However,
> if we're talking about a more traditional "work week", in which he could
> tape many weeks' worth of shows, then the $75K figure makes a little more
> sense.
It's revolting however you cut it. No one on a show pulling such
pitiful ratings deserves that kind of jack. Philbin, yes. Robinson, yes.
Sajak, yes. Trebek, yes. Bergeron, sure, what the hell. Anderson? Hell
no.
One thing's for sure... dude'll never have to want for Yodels again.
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chris319
>early '70s interview in TV Guide implied it was a lot more than $5,000 per
>episode. Plus he did five a week for the NBC show and two a week for the
>syndicated version and apparently invested that money well...
He didn't make $5,000 per episode for the daytime show, I'll guarantee you that.
He might have made $5,000 per five daytime shows. Don't forget HS had nine other
celebrities on the set.
chris319
>(39 weeks of first-run episodes = $2,925,000)
That's my guess, which works out to $15,000 per show he tapes, or $30,000 per
hour, or $500 per minute. And of course he'll get checks for reruns.
And free suits.
Turkey staying down, Matt?
ROBDON33
making $1 million per year or more... Barry earned a bit more with his
production company.
Today I'm guessing Barker makes close to $2 million a year... somewhere in that
area code of $2 to $3 mil.
Matt Ottinger
<chris319> wrote about Louie Anderson ...
> >$75K/week for each week of first-run episodes
> >(39 weeks of first-run episodes = $2,925,000)
I'll say it again: That's just nuts. I have a ballpark idea of what
Bergeron makes for a higher-rated, higher-profile show and it's nowhere near
that figure. And the Fremantle folks are supposed to be the cheapskates!
Something's out of whack here.
> And free suits.
[Insert any NUMBER of jokes here.]
> Turkey staying down, Matt?
GAK!
--Matt
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Christopher Bogart
make in the low 6 figures, which considering how long they have been in the
business, they are terribly underpaid, but then again everyone on that show
is underpaid, including Bob.
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Brandon Foster-Gray
> "Matt Ottinger" <otti...@acd.net> wrote in message
> news:JqgM7.417$zn2.2...@newsfeed.slurp.net...
> > > >Louie Anderson makes $75K/wk, if that helps.
> >
> > I'd be curious about what a "week" means here. If it means that he gets
> > $75K for every five shows he tapes (a "week" of shows), that means they'd
> be
> > paying him more than three million a year, and that's just nuts. However,
> > if we're talking about a more traditional "work week", in which he could
> > tape many weeks' worth of shows, then the $75K figure makes a little more
> > sense.
>
> It's revolting however you cut it. No one on a show pulling such
> pitiful ratings deserves that kind of jack. Philbin, yes. Robinson, yes.
> Sajak, yes. Trebek, yes. Bergeron, sure, what the hell. Anderson? Hell
> no.
>
> One thing's for sure... dude'll never have to want for Yodels again.
Given the way Louie butchers Fast Money questions regularly, I have to
agree. He also can't ad-lib going into commercials.
Does anyone know what Combs got for his run (syndie or CBS)?
Zach Horan
>Does anyone know what Combs got for his run (syndie or CBS)?
>
USA weekend magazine reported shortly before Combs Feud debuted, that he'd be
getting $800K a year for hosting network and Syndie Feud.