After 31 years on the air (around 25 of those years as a national program, first on NPR and then on PRI), "Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know?" will go off the air July 2, the same day that Garrison Kellior leaves "A Prairie Home Companion"--the live two-hour Saturday morning comedy quiz/talk show from Madison, Wisc. has lost about two-thirds of its peak station lineup in recent years due to the popularity of the slicker (and recorded and edited) quiz show "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!"--although PRI started offering an edited one-hour version (broadcast a week after the live broadcast) last year, it didn't bring the show back up (the show also suffered the death of Feldman's sidekick Jim Packard in 2012):
http://current.org/2016/03/whadya-know-to-end-production-after-31-years/ For what it's worth, producer Wisconsin Public Radio says that it's committed to weekend entertainment programming and will soon announce a local replacement for Feldman. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
