| Wink Martindale | |
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| Born | Winston Conrad Martindale December 4, 1934 Jackson, Tennessee |
| Occupation | TV presenter, Game show presenter (1964-1998) |
| Spouse(s) | Madelyn, Sandy Ferra |
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Wink Martindale (born Winston Conrad Martindale, December 4, 1934, Jackson, Tennessee) is a disc jockey and television game show host. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. A presenter, or host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form is a Person or Organization responsible for running an event "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic
Martindale started his career as a disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week. He was hired away by WTJS for double the salary. Jackson's only other station, WDXI, hired him away from WTJS. He next hosted mornings at WHBQ in Memphis. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. In 1959, he became morning man at KHJ in Los Angeles, California, moving a year later to the morning show at KRLA and finally to KFWB in 1962. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He also had lengthy stays at KKGO/KJQI and Gene Autry's KMPC. Orvon Gene Autry ( September 29 1907 &ndash October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy KMPC ( Radio Korea, 라디오코리아 is a radio station based in Los Angeles California that airs Radio Korea programming
Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, as the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction themed children's television program. WHBQ-TV, channel 13 is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Memphis Tennessee Children's television series are Television programs designed for and marketed to Children normally broadcast during the Morning and Afternoon It was at his tenure with WHBQ that Martindale became the host of the tv show Dance Party where his close friend Elvis Presley stopped in to make a public appearance. Dance Party is a 1965 album released by American Motown and Soul girl group Martha and the Vandellas on the Gordy ( Following Presley's sudden death in 1977, Martindale aired a nationwide tribute radio special in his honor.
Martindale has hosted numerous game shows, including What's This Song?, Debt, Gambit, High Rollers, The Last Word, Tic Tac Dough and Trivial Pursuit. What's This Song? was a game show based on the popular game show Name That Tune. Debt was an American Game show hosted by veteran host Wink Martindale, which aired on Lifetime from June 3, 1996 to Gambit was a television game show created by Wayne Cruseturner and produced by Heatter-Quigley Productions, that aired on CBS from September 4 High Rollers was an American television Game show which aired on the NBC network from July 1, 1974 to June 11 The Last Word is a game show produced by Merrill Heatter Productions having ran from September 18, 1989 - January 5, 1990 Tic-Tac-Dough was an American television Game show based on the Pen-and-paper game Tic-tac-toe. Trivial Pursuit is a game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. In addition, he was the creator of Bumper Stumpers and he created and hosted Headline Chasers. Bumper Stumpers was a Canadian Game show in which two teams of two players attempted to decipher vanity license plates Headline Chasers is a syndicated game show that ran from September 9, 1985 - September 1986. As of 2008, he is the second television personality to have hosted 15 game shows, behind fellow veteran game show host, Bill Cullen, who had hosted 24 to date. A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention William Lawrence Francis "Bill" Cullen ( February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American Radio and Television
His rendition of the spoken-word song, "Deck Of Cards", went to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sold over a million copies in 1959. A song is a Musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed 'sung' and generally feature Words ( Lyrics) commonly followed The Deck of Cards is a recitative that was popularized in both the country and popular music fields first during the late 1940s Record chart are a method of ranking Music according to Popularity during a given period of time It was followed by "Black Land Farmer. "
He divorced his first wife, Madelyn, in 1971, married his second wife, Sandy Ferra, in 1975, and has four children and seven grandchildren.
He has appeared in various TV commercials and, until 2007, had a daily three-hour show on the syndicated Music Of Your Life format, which is heard on around 200 radio stations. Music of Your Life has been in continuous operation since 1978 and is a satellite-delivered Radio network featuring the Adult Standards radio format This article is about radio broadcasting for other uses see Radio (disambiguation.
Martindale made an appearance (in two separate roles) in the Quiet Riot video for "The Wild and the Young" in 1986. Quiet Riot was an American heavy metal band whose 1983 & 1984 success contributed to launching the 1980s Glam As of 2005, Martindale has capitalized on his camp appeal by doing television commercials promoting Internet travel agency Orbitz. Orbitz Worldwide is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago Illinois.
On 2 June 2006, Martindale received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that
In 2007 Wink Martindale became a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
In 2008, Wink appeared on GSN Live, an interstitial program during the afternoon block of classic game show reruns. GSN Live is an American live interactive show on Game Show Network that premiered on February 25, 2008 at noon ET As of March 24th, Wink is filling in for Fred Roggin on GSN Live while Fred is on vacation. Fred Roggin is the sports anchor at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles California.
The May 25, 2008 "Sag Harbor Study" (a poll taken on New York State's Long Island) compared the social relevance of game show hosts in the 21st century to what many consider the "golden years" of game shows – 1973 through the early 1980s. Sag Harbor is a Village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, shared by the towns of East Hampton and Southampton New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Precisely 25% of all respondents given zero category-specific context were unable to identify "Wink Martindale" as a person of any significance.
| Preceded by Bill Wendell |
Host of Tic Tac Dough 1978–1985 |
Succeeded by Jim Caldwell |
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Bill Wendell (birth name William Joseph Wenzel Jr) ( 22 March 1924 – 14 April 1999) was an NBC Television Tic-Tac-Dough was an American television Game show based on the Pen-and-paper game Tic-tac-toe. Jim Caldwell (born December 12, 1950) is an American Television presenter.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic