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TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 552.1 with guest Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand as a free podcast
The Art of the Big Call in Sports Original Airdates: Aug. 27-29, 2021 TVC 552.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Steve Beverly, recently retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Besides … Continue reading →
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 551.1: The Jeopardy! Host Debacle with guest Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand
The Jeopardy! Host Debacle Original Airdates: Aug. 20-22, 2021 TVC 551.1: Steve Beverly, game show historian and professor emeritus of broadcast journalism at Union University (Jackson, TN), joins Ed to discuss the various issues surrounding Sony Pictures Television’s controversial selection of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers guest host, Aaron Rodgers Jeopardy, Alex Trebek, Alex Trebek Jeopardy, Alex Trebek The Wizard of Odds, appeal of Jeopardy, Art Fleming, Bob Barker, broadcast journalism, broadcast journalism COVID-19, Bud Selig, Bud Selig commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig conflict of interest, Carl Perkins, classic TV series, coping with depression, EPlusTV6, Fay Vincent commissioner of baseball, future of Jeopardy, Game Show Congress, game shows, interviewing skills, Jackson 24/7, Jackson Sun, Jackson Tennessee, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings, Ken Jennings Jeopardy, Let's Make a Deal, LeVar Burton, LeVar Burton guest host, LeVar Burton Jeopardy, listening, longevity of Jeopardy, Major League Baseball, Mayim Bialik, Mayim Bialik Jeopardy, mental health, mental health advocate, Mike Richards, Mike Richards conflict of interest, Mike Richards executive producer, Mike Richards inappropriate comments, Mike Richards Jeopardy, Mike Richards Jeopardy controversy, Mike Richards The Price is Right, Monty Hall, Mr. TV Classics, NAMI, Password, Robin Williams, signs of depression, Split Second, Stefan Hatos, Steve Beverly, Steve Beverly Alex Trebek, Steve Beverly's TV Classics, TCM, teaching hospital, teaching interviewing skills, television historian, television news, television news reporters, TV game shows, Union University, warning signs depression, WBBJ, WWAY Jeopardy, WWAY Wilmington North Carolina
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Tribute to Alex Trebek with guests Ruta Lee and Steve Beverly is available for listening on demand
Alex Trebek: The Steward of Jeopardy! Original Airdates: Dec. 4-6, 2020 TVC 519.1: Tony, Donna, and Ed pay tribute to Alex Trebek, the Emmy Award-winning game show host who presided over Jeopardy! for an astonishing thirty-six years, beginning in 1984 … Continue reading →
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Coming soon to TV CONFIDENTIAL: Broadcast journalism professor and game show historian STEVE BEVERLY, host of Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, on his upcoming tribute to the early game show career of Alex Trebek (premiering Saturday 11/21 on EPlusTV6.com); the episode of Jeopardy! for which Trebek won the first of his six Emmy Awards; and how he first got to know Alex in 1984, at the start of Trebek’s thirty-six-year run as the host of Jeopardy!
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Podcast of TV CONFIDENTIAL Show No. 553: The Jeopardy! Host Debacle: Update with guest Steve Beverly is now available for listening on demand
The Jeopardy! Host Debacle: Update Original Airdates: Sept. 11-13, 2021 TVC 553.1: Game show historian Steve Beverly helps Ed sort through the latest developments in the ongoing search for a new permanent host of Jeopardy! When Steve visited us in … Continue reading →