Bertha Kalifornia: January 2021

List of stations that carried Dialing for Dollars[edit]

A similar format, The Money Man, was used on WLOS-TV Asheville, North Carolina, in the late 1960s. Host Bob Caldwell would call viewers and ask them to tell how much money was in the jackpot and name the show or star of the day. This aired in late afternoons, during reruns of Perry Mason and the station's 5:30 PM newscast.CICT-TV (formerly CFAC) – Calgary, Alberta, Canada
KARK-TV – Little Rock, Arkansas (originally used for newscasts since 2018)
KATC-TV – Lafayette, Louisiana
KBJR-TV (formerly WDSM) – Superior, Wisconsin/Duluth, Minnesota
KPAC-TV – Port Arthur, Texas
KCOP – Los Angeles, California, Johnny Gilbert hosted the show
KCPQ – Seattle, Washington
KCRG-TV – Cedar Rapids, Iowa
KFIZ-TV – Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
KJEO-TV – Fresno, California
KMBC-TV – Kansas City, Missouri
KODE-TV – Joplin, Missouri
KOAT-TV – Albuquerque, New Mexico
KOBI – Medford, Oregon, used a different format version of Dialing for Dollars titled "Jackpot Bingo" which had different formats and developments until cancelled in 1988.
KPHO – Phoenix, Arizona
KPTV – Portland, Oregon
KQTV – St. Joseph, Missouri (late 1970s)
KRQE – Albuquerque, New Mexico (early 1970s)
KSL-TV – Salt Lake City, Utah
KTBS-TV – Shreveport, Louisiana
KTHV – Little Rock, Arkansas, under a different title, to compete with KARK
KTRK-TV – Houston, Texas
KTVX – Salt Lake City, Utah, aired during The Mike Douglas Show in the early 1970s until 1972, and was later aired during Truth or Consequences.
KIII-TV – Corpus Christi, Texas
KSTP-TV - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
KHON - Honolulu, Hawaii
KTAL-TV – Shreveport, Louisiana, “Dialing for Thousands”.
KTSM-TV – El Paso, Texas, hosted by weatherman and former El Paso city councilman Ted Bender.
KTVI-TV – Saint Louis, Missouri, hosted by Morgan Hatch.
KTVU – Oakland, California, Mel Venter and later Bob March in the morning and Pat McCormick in the afternoon hosted the show. Bob Eldred hosted an evening version called "The Jackpot Movie."
KUSA – Denver, Colorado, also as KBTV, Stormy Rottman hosted the segments
KVLY-TV (then KTHI-TV) – Fargo/Grand Forks, North Dakota
KXLY-TV – Spokane, Washington
KXMB-TV – Bismarck, North Dakota (during the 1970s)
KXMC-TV – Minot, North Dakota (during the 1970s)
KDIX-TV –Dickinson, North Dakota Stan Deck and Lorren Haake
WAAY-TV – Huntsville, Alabama
WAWV-TV (then WIIL-TV) – Terre Haute, Indiana, hosted by Woody Berlin
WANE-TV – Fort Wayne, Indiana, hosted by Dave King
WAVY-TV – Norfolk, Virginia
WBBH-TV – Fort Myers, Florida, aired for a short time until WEVU took it over.
WBRC-TV – Birmingham, Alabama
WCIA-TV – Champaign, Illinois
WJKS-TV – Jacksonville, Florida
WCIX – Miami, Florida, Patricia San Pedro hosted the show.
WDBB-TV – Tuscaloosa, Alabama, originally called "Dialing for Big Bucks", hosted by Brent Jones.
WDSU-TV – New Orleans, Louisiana
WEVU-TV – Fort Myers, Florida
WFAA-TV – Dallas, Texas, hosts included Ed Hogan, Ross Cass, and "Dandy" Don Norman
WFMJ-TV – Youngstown, Ohio
WFTV – Orlando, Florida, hosted by Pete Forgione
WGHP-TV – High Point, North Carolina (late 1970s, early 1980s), hosted by Dick Bennick, later Jo Nelson.
WHBQ-TV – Memphis, Tennessee (1960s – September 1, 1978), Dave Brown hosted various times during its run.
WHO-TV – Des Moines, Iowa
WISN-TV – Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dialing for Dollars began at the station in December 1967. A news/talk/contest show, the program is noted for its long-standing husband-and-wife hosting team of Howard and Rosemary Gernette. The Dialing contest remained when the show was rechristened At Twelve in 1980.
WJZ-TV – Baltimore, Maryland, used "The Hustle" as the theme music and at one point in the 1970s, Oprah Winfrey hosted the show.^[2]
WKBW-TV – Buffalo, New York, practically, this show was never canceled. Its name was changed when Dave Thomas/Dave Roberts left the station for WPVI in 1978, and the show was renamed without the Dialing for Dollars franchise to AM Buffalo, which still airs today.
WLBZ – Bangor, Maine
WLKY – Louisville, Kentucky
WLNE-TV – New Bedford, Massachusetts, George Allen hosted the show
WMAR-TV – Baltimore, Maryland (1948 - 1977), hosted by George Rogers and then Stu Kerr
WNAC-TV – Boston, Massachusetts Ed Miller hosted the show.
WNEP-TV – Scranton, Pennsylvania
WNEW-TV – New York City (mid-1960s)
WPLG-TV – Miami, Florida Jay L. Mann Hosted, only lasted in the early 1970s until WCIX-TV took over the show in the mid-1970s.
WPTV-TV – West Palm Beach, Florida, Dave Davis hosted the show
WPRI-TV – Providence, Rhode Island (late 1960s, early 1970s) hosted by Salty Brine
WPVI-TV – Philadelphia, first hosted by Bob McLean in 1973, who would later host a talk show in Canada on CBC Television; it was also presented by Jim O'Brien
WRAL-TV – Raleigh, North Carolina, presented by Bob DeBardelaben, later forecaster of the station.
WXEX-TV (now WRIC-TV) – Richmond, Virginia (one-hour show ran from about 1959 until 1970)
WROC-TV – Rochester, New York, hosted by Ann Keefe
WREX-TV – Rockford, Illinois
WSTM-TV (formerly WSYR-TV) – Syracuse, New York, hosted by Ed Murphy
WSUN-TV – St. Petersburg, Florida, WSUN's version only lasted in the mid-1960s until 1967 when WTSP took the show over again for the first time since its last run in 1959, and ran until 1970.
WTCN-TV – Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Mel Jass hosted Dialing for Dollars as a segment incorporated into his Mel's Matinee Movie program in the early 1970s.
WTAE-TV – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1965 - 1972)
WTEN-TV – Albany, New York, co-hosted by Ralph Vartigian and John Stewart from 1970-1975.^[3]
WTNH-TV – New Haven, Connecticut, 30 minute local television game/variety show.
WLCY-TV / WTSP – St. Petersburg, Florida, the 45-minute version of the show only ran from 1957-1959, and Tampa never had a Dialing for Dollars program until 1965 when WSUN-TV took it over. And in 1967, WTSP took over the show and ran until 1970 and WTOG Channel 44 ran the series.
WTOG – St Petersburg, Florida, later renamed as "Tele-Quest" in 1988.
WTVC-TV – Chattanooga, Tennessee
WTVF-TV (previously WLAC-TV) – Nashville, Tennessee
WXIA-TV – Atlanta, Georgia, Linda Faye Carson and Don Barber, then Freddie Miller hosted the show
KELO-TV – Sioux Falls, South Dakota, during the noon news block
WTOL-TV – Toledo, Ohio, during The Big Show (weekday afternoon movie), hosted by weatherman Joe Ashton

Another similar format, the Prize Movie, aired for many years on WUAB-TV in Cleveland, Ohio; host John Lanigan would call people in a manner similar to Dialing for Dollars, and would spin a wheel containing photos of both station personalities and stars of the syndicated fare seen on the station; he would then ask the caller to identify that person. If they did so successfully, they won the jackpot (which always ended in 43 cents). This lasted for many years, until the station opted to replace the Prize Movie with a slate of syndicated talk shows in the fall of 1993; this was a failure and the Prize Movie was brought back in January of 1994, and ended for good that August.