Pat Sajak may be retiring from the position as the Host of the Television Game Show “Wheel Of Fortune”, and Pat Sajak may continue to serve as a member of the Board of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan (as of the time of writing this post), but I would still like to cast Pat Sajak in my Movie as a Radio Disc Jockey.
It is only Pat Sajak’s background in Radio and local Television that I am interested in, and not at all his famous tenure as the Host of the Television Game Show “Wheel Of Fortune”.
Specifically, the role that I want to cast Pat Sajak in; is a Disc Jockey for a heritage FM Radio Station with a hybrid Adult Contemporary-Jazz-Easy Listening format that had originally gone on the air in 1934 as an Experimental APEX Station; and when the FCC had ruled beginning in the 1960’s that FM Stations were no longer allowed to simulcast their AM parents just so one could hear the programming of the AM Radio Station in the crystal-clear sound of FM Radio; this FM Radio Station had taken its hybrid Adult Contemporary-Jazz-Easy Listening format in 1968. Both this FM Radio Station and its AM parent are CBS Radio affiliates, and this FM Station’s Television sibling is a CBS Television affiliate.
Pat Sajak had got his start in Radio when he won a contest held by Dick Biondi to serve as a Guest Disc Jockey at ABC owned and operated WLS-AM in Chicago sometime during the 1960’s.
Besides working at WSM-AM when it had an Adult Contemporary format, and at WSM’s Television offspring WSM-TV (later WSMV); Pat Sajak had also worked at WEDC-AM in Chicago beginning in 1966, at AM Radio Station WNBS-AM in Murray, Kentucky (named for inventor Nathan Beverly Stubblefield, an inventor known for his inventions pertaining to wireless telephony) and as a Weatherman for NBC’s owned and operated Television Station in Los Angeles; KNBC-TV.

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