AudioVault back up

The Audio Vault, for people looking for audio described content made in the US, Canada, and the UK, is back up after less than two weeks of suffering from an error (HTTP status code 521).

Go to the AudioVault

Update for people looking for audio described content

This is an important update for people who are trying to look for audio-described content from the US, Canada, and the UK. Unfortunately, AudioVault.net is down for a while, so that site may soon be back up and running. In the meantime, still up and running are Jeff Rutkowski's described movies page and Ray Starr's Descriptive Videos for the Blind pages.

Bad news about Michael Pannoni's Dailymotion account

I've got some bad news to tell you in this post about Michael Pannoni's Dailymotion account! It's now gone! His copies of Wheel of Fortune episodes could previously be found on Dailymotion on the pannoni3 page!

A few times I clicked on a link from Google's search results and that link actually led to a redirect to the US Dailymotion home page! That must mean that Michael's DM account is gone! He had 73 Wheel episodes up on Dailymotion, but I hope he uploads any more Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy episodes to Internet Archive, one of the websites where a Wheel or Jeopardy fan can avoid copyright problems altogether!

Also, if you've got episodes of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy that don't exist on the Internet yet, I suggest that you upload the episodes to Internet Archive and do what I did!

I'm guessing that Michael still has the September 12, 2007 episode of Jeopardy! with a LONG full credit roll, but his copy of the full episode is not on Internet Archive yet as much as my copy of the credits!

NCAA March Madness Sweet 16 in Louisville

If you live in Louisville, you can be able to attend both NCAA men's tournament south regional semifinal games tomorrow and possibly the NCAA men's tournament south regional final game on either Saturday or Sunday! All three south regionals may be played at KFC Yum Center in Louisville.

On TBS, Brian Anderson will call the action, Chris Webber will be the game analyst, and Allie LaForce will be a courtside reporter at both Sweet 16 south regional semifinal games tomorrow!

Allie LaForce herself is one of the youngest female reporters in American sports TV history!

The changes in 2019 March Madness on CBS, TBS, TNT, and Tru TV

Here's an appropriate list of changes to the announcing teams of NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament coverage!

- Allie LaForce moves to the #2 team replacing Lisa Byington.
- Jamie Erdahl moves to the #3 team of Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel, which Allie was previously on.
- Jim Jackson becomes a second game analyst with Brad Nessler, Steve Lavin, and Evan Washburn.
- Lisa moves to the #7 team of Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas, which Jamie was previously on.

A list of my first Internet Archive videos

I recently created an Internet Archive account in November, so here's the initial list of what's in my Internet Archive video collection!

WHEEL OF FORTUNE
- September 2, 2002 (20th nighttime season premiere; long credits only with clean 2002 theme)
- December 13, 2002 (long credits only)
- March 22, 2005 (long credits only)

JEOPARDY!
- July 28, 2006 (22nd season finale; partial clip of LONG credit roll)
- October 16, 2007 (long credits only)

THE JENNY JONES SHOW
- Partial credits sequence from early 1992 (starts after Good Morning Treasure Valley announcement)

More videos are to come in my Internet Archive account! I will also reupload any episodes of Jeopardy! (each with a full credit roll) after downloading them from Google+, YouTube, and Dailymotion!

What I think of my favorite game show reruns

There have been syndicated packages of classic game show reruns, even in the past.

WFLA-8 (NBC in the Tampa market) aired reruns of the original Card Sharks by 1982, as I was watching a YouTube video showing a 1982 rerun of Jim Perry's Card Sharks that had a full credit roll. There have also been syndicated reruns of two shows starring Bill Cullen: the original versions of The $25,000 Pyramid and Blockbusters. Match Game PM has also aired in syndicated reruns in the mid 1980s.

WTSP-10 (CBS in the Tampa market) aired Jeopardy reruns at 4:30 weekday afternoons in 1996-97. It has also aired Jeopardy reruns on some Saturday nights, while CBS Sports programs have aired on other Saturday nights on 10. Also on some Saturday nights, 10 has aired reruns of nighttime Wheel of Fortune. From 2007 to 2012, WFTS-28 (ABC in the Tampa market) has also aired Saturday reruns of both Wheel and Jeopardy, and for the first two years they were on 28, they aired Jeopardy reruns at 9:30 in the mornings until September 2009.

For 2013, after the return of Wheel and Jeopardy to 10 the previous year, Jeopardy reruns returned at 10:30 in the morning before The Price is Right. When 10 moved Let's Make a Deal to 10:00 in the mornings, the Jeopardy reruns moved to 3:30 in the afternoon before Dr. Phil.

One of my other favorite game shows had been Merv Griffin's Crosswords, which aired locally on 28 for its entire run, as well as for a short period of reruns in late 2008. Too bad Crosswords ended its run in the summer of 2008, but 28 dropped Crosswords reruns before Trivial Pursuit America Plays which was rarer for me to watch than Crosswords.

I had been watching reruns of the 1994-95 season of Wheel of Fortune at the time 28 dropped Crosswords reruns in favor of the 2008 Trivial Pursuit revival starring Christopher Knight from The Brady Bunch, while Crosswords starred soap opera star Ty Treadway.

Since it hit the air on June 1, 2015, BUZZR has had WTVT-DT3 as the affiliate in the Tampa market. It has aired reruns of Blockbusters, Card Sharks, Password Plus, Super Password, Perry's nighttime version of Sale of the Century, and the CBS daytime version of Match Game.

Game Show Network currently airs Wheel reruns once again, this time those of seasons 30 and 31.