Wheel channel coming to Pluto in August

Really really really really awesome news! Do any insiders know if the show has undertaken an extensive digitization process of at least its syndicated library? I remember reading that Harry Friedman started doing this for Jeopardy! in the tail end of his tenure at Sony, so I wonder if they had been doing the same with Wheel. I'll keep my expectations low for now, but I'd love to see any of the pre-electronic puzzleboard era return to TV.

^I have no doubt the Pluto episodes will only be syndicated. Even shopping era would be a surprise to see. The last 80s episode shown on GSN was during the Merv Griffin tribute after his death I believe.

considering they'd plaster modern cues over the classic ones when they DID show 80s/90s clips, i'd say it WAS music clearance

Fun announcment! I'll predict that they'd start around season 20 or so, but come on. Almost every episode airing would be nice.

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Actually, it was the pilot from 1964 that recently popped up regarding J!. The 1974 syndie episode appeared about five years ago. Many fan recordings from the '80s-now have also appeared as well. 

The Price Is Right: The Barker era started with Season 11 (1982-83), which means it isn't out of the realm of the possibility to start from S-001 (although more than likely, sometime in the '90s, '00s, or '10s). Let's Make A Deal is starting from 2011, two years into its run. 500 episodes of Price are currently in Pluto's rotation, which is as much content as over five full seasons of Wheel. They'll most likely start from a certain point and then just keep going from there. There probably will be the occasional skipped episode due to most likely tape damage, but on average, about 95% of all episodes from seasons 11, 12, and the first two-thirds or season 13 have aired for reference. I can't wait to see what's coming, and especially with the original broadcast quality that beats all VCR recordings so far.

For Jeopardy!, I'd REALLY love to see pre-Sushi Bar set episodes since there's numerous gaps in the J! Archive, which nearly every episode since then archived.

there was a fan upload of 70s syndicated jeopardy (in black and white)

Any of the rarest seasons are as good as any to start. Although, I do look forward to seeing more of the seasons during the Shopping Era, it would be so great to see more of Seasons 8, 9, & 11 in crystal clear quality.

As of 2020, the copyright holder for Changing Keys was EMI Filmtrax Copyright Holdings. Jeopardy!'s theme is held by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. This is according to the credits of a U.S. Army Field Band virtual concert where they played various game show themes. Pat explicitly said shortly after S39 premiered that they "bought back" the rights to Changing Keys, so it must be owned by Sony now.

At least one promo for the channel has been airing on the new Let's Make a Deal channel.

Unfortunately, all that has been shown for Wheel so far are two clips from Season 34's Great American Cities: Boston week from May 2017. Jeopardy! has a clip from the mid-2000's and an audio sample of Alex definitely taken from an 80's episode.

Of course, it's too early to jump to conclusions, but so far, it looks like this is the same old deal of Wheel not opening the vault any earlier than the mid-2010's while J! continues to gladly showcase its pre-HD seasons.

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