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Post by Mandoli on Jan 11, 2015 22:35:13 GMT -5
Hi, comeonbigbucks! I would assume that for the easier demographics (like the third graders), those in charge of the questions searched locally. I don't think they'd find people all over the country if they can find enough people in the LA area.
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Post by thekid965 on Jan 12, 2015 2:26:29 GMT -5
Perspective time: According to Google, there are currently 10.2 million people living in the Greater Los Angeles area—almost as many as in the entire state of Ohio (11.57 million). It is reasonable to assume the relative proportions remained more or less at this level during Card Sharks's lifespan.
Bottom line, even if they restricted their surveys strictly to the local and surrounding areas of Hollywood or Burbank (depending on the era), they would always have more than ample fodder for nearly any demographic or type of question.
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Post by comeonbigbucks on Jan 12, 2015 11:02:29 GMT -5
Thanks. I am aware of population figures in the USA. I'm wondering more about specifics (the questions I asked in my first post) . What were their methods, specifically, in their polling? It could be that this information simply isn't known by game show fans.
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Post by thekid965 on Jan 12, 2015 11:33:18 GMT -5
My understanding is, it varied. For general-public polls of nonspecific adults, sometimes they'd use their own studio audience, or even that of another G-T series (The Price is Right was explicitly named on at least one early NBC episode as a source). Other times they would do telephone polls, or even send out questionnaires to people, asking them multiple questions and then tallying each individual question separately for later insertion into G2T2. The "questionnaire" approach was also used for querying specific groups, such as students or members of a particular profession.
Pollsters move in mysterious ways.
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Post by comeonbigbucks on Jan 13, 2015 13:22:47 GMT -5
Thank you very much - very helpful and interesting answer!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2015 18:51:19 GMT -5
I am in the process of compiling an episode guide for the CBS version of Card Sharks as of lately, but I have a puzzle to figure out. One of my contacts on Facebook informed me that there were seven episodes pre-empted during 1987, and claims they were related to the Iran-Contra Hearings, but I think they were due to other CBS News-related events as well, and may have been during 1988 as well. According to the Vanderbilt News Archive, I only found three possible dates for pre-emptions of Card Sharks in the summer of 1987. Those possible dates in question were June 29, 1987 (not Iran-Contra related); July 14, 1987; and August 3, 1987. I am not sure if the time slots for the news broadcasts on the Archive is listed in ET or whatever time zone, but maybe someone can help me pinpoint some possible dates of pre-emption so I will have a rough idea on what dates I can list as possible pre-emptions. The same user who contacted me on Facebook informed me about Super Password pre-emptions in the summer of 1987, but Super Password was originally aired in a different time slot than Card Sharks.
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Post by thekid965 on Feb 14, 2015 0:40:32 GMT -5
One thing to remember is that CBS allowed its affiliates considerable leeway with scheduling game shows, perhaps much greater than NBC afforded its own stations at the time. Some CBS affiliates refused to air any game shows at all (my then-local CBS station, WFSB in Hartford, would only clear The Price is Right, relegating others to a local independent for later airing), while others would choose to air them later in the afternoon. When considering pre-emptions for Iran-Contra and other major breaking news stories of the day, you might want to bear this in mind if/when you uncover a few discrepancies in your research.
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Post by vahan on Feb 14, 2015 11:19:42 GMT -5
I am in the process of compiling an episode guide for the CBS version of Card Sharks as of lately, but I have a puzzle to figure out. One of my contacts on Facebook informed me that there were seven episodes pre-empted during 1987, and claims they were related to the Iran-Contra Hearings, but I think they were due to other CBS News-related events as well, and may have been during 1988 as well. According to the Vanderbilt News Archive, I only found three possible dates for pre-emptions of Card Sharks in the summer of 1987. Those possible dates in question were June 29, 1987 (not Iran-Contra related); July 14, 1987; and August 3, 1987. I am not sure if the time slots for the news broadcasts on the Archive is listed in ET or whatever time zone, but maybe someone can help me pinpoint some possible dates of pre-emption so I will have a rough idea on what dates I can list as possible pre-emptions. The same user who contacted me on Facebook informed me about Super Password pre-emptions in the summer of 1987, but Super Password was originally aired in a different time slot than Card Sharks. Where did I say there were 7? I said there were 8 Iran-Contra preemptions.
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Post by Kaos on Feb 15, 2015 0:13:58 GMT -5
Going back to the surveys, on the NBC version, Jim would often ask for certain demographics to participate in polls, to which Gene would do a plug similar to a ticket plug, but mentioning the demographic wanted for the polls.
All in all, these poll methods differ greatly from what used on FF, in which if you were interested in being one of the 100 people surveyed, all you had to do was go to the show's website and log in to answer.
For some reason, they don't any more, but they do give you the chance to come up with your own questions on their social media pages...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 15:47:15 GMT -5
Regarding today's GSN airing...
I did notice that there was a different audience polling group, and the previous audience polling group consisted of business executives, which lasted for only four episodes.
It makes me wonder if there may have been a nationwide pre-emption in February 1987 or the first week of March 1987 due to something CBS News-related, delayed the airings by one day, and resulted in a four-episode taping session so that eventually a different audience polling group would start on a Monday?
If the Vanderbilt News Archive site shows evidence of a news-related pre-emption in February 1987 or the first week of March 1987, that may take care of figuring out one of the eight nationwide pre-emptions (outside of Lady Liberty's 100th anniversary, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, and President George H. W. Bush's inauguration), and that will bring our pre-emption figuring out down to just seven.
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Post by couponboy on Mar 18, 2015 6:52:31 GMT -5
In a week of shows that aired on GSN recently, someone in an audience poll group of 10 divorced men had to leave for some reason on the 2nd show of the week. Thwy tried to cover it up by saying "he got married overnight" though that's obviously a lie. They continued for the rest of the week with the 9 divorced men, and (unsurprising) there were quite a few more exact guesses on those questions.
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Post by Mario500 on Mar 18, 2015 8:10:55 GMT -5
^What gave you the idea that "he got married overnight" was a lie?
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Post by carpetcrawler on Mar 18, 2015 8:28:18 GMT -5
^What gave you the idea that "he got married overnight" was a lie? I would surmise since all episodes for a week were typically taped on a single day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2015 18:00:13 GMT -5
Anyone see Card Sharks this morning? I couldn't believe what happened.
The car game was won not once - but twice!
I wonder if this was the first episode in the series that the show gave away two cars in a single episode? Not to mention the car was over $10,000 in price!
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Post by vahan on Apr 9, 2015 11:46:05 GMT -5
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