Bruce's Journal

Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. I retired six years ago after working as a Science/Engineering Librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark for 25 years. I was married to Karen until she passed away in February 2021. I have a son Lee who is now 35 years old. I am very much interested in the popular music of the 1960s, especially Bob Dylan and the Beatles. I am interested in rock and roll radio. I am an enthusiastic fan of the New York Mets.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Jeopardy Season Ends after 46 Weeks and 230 Shows

Today Alex Trebek announced that the Jeopardy season has ended. He stated that with 230 shows it has the longest season of any game show. The only other game shows on the air today are Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Wheel of Fortune. For the next 6 weeks, tournaments will be rerun, but I will likely go online an hour earlier than usual until the next season begins in September.

Jeopardy has some long run. The Art Flemming version on NBC aired from 1964-1979 while the syndicated Alex Trebek version started in 1984 and is still going strong. How long will Alex stay as host? Who will succeed him? Time will tell.