White, whose prior game-show experience consisted of a stint as a contestant on “The Price Is Right” (she didn’t win), regularly watched “Wheel” and wrote to the show hoping to come on as a player - just as original letter-turner Susan Stafford was moving on. The daytime show had gradually been losing ground in the ratings, and it looked like it had another year or two in it, but then White was added into the mix, a secret ingredient to syndicated success. “They didn’t want some weatherman doing a big show of theirs. “Merv fought the network to get me to host this thing,” Sajak recalls. Sajak had already been onboard as “Wheel’s” affable master of ceremonies for a year when White arrived in 1982 he assumed hosting duties on the series created by talk-show host and rising game-show empire-builder Merv Griffin after its original host, Chuck Woolery, departed six seasons into its NBC run.
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