Pardon the late reply on this one but I was a big fan of both Feldman and the show for many years but lost touch with it after KERA dropped it several years ago. In mid-2015, I tried to renew my love affair with the show via podcast but it just wasn't the same. The loss of Jim Packard was apparently a huge blow from which the show, both on and off the air, never quite recovered.
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Ed Dravecky Dallas, Texas -- -- 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.
