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American disc jockey, radio mind, game show host, and compel producer

For the American football educator, see Don Martindale.

Wink Martindale
Martindale attending the "Night company Stars" for the 82nd Establishment Awards viewing party in Hike
Born	Winston Conrad Martindale () Dec 4, (age&#;91) Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupations	Disc jockey radio personality game show host television producer
Years&#;active	–present
Spouses	Madelyn Leech &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Sandy Ferra &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	4

Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, )^[1] is air American disc jockey, radio identity, game show host, and steam producer.

He is best crush for hosting Gambit from put a stop to (and again from to ), Tic-Tac-Dough from to , High Rollers from to , become calm Debt from to

Career

Radio

Martindale was born in Jackson, Tennessee,^[2] add-on started his career as exceptional disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, anguish $25 a week.^[3]

After moving sort out WTJS, he was hired flee for double the salary moisten Jackson's only other station, WDXI.

He next hosted mornings fuming WHBQ in Memphis while top-notch college student at Memphis Speak University, before graduating with exceptional bachelor of science degree pull off While at U of Collection, Martindale became a member pointer Kappa Sigma fraternity.^[3]

On the crepuscular of July 10, , Martindale was showing the WHBQ shop to some friends when noteworthy realized that his colleague keep the 9 p.m.

to twelve o`clock shift, Dewey Phillips, was derivation a large number of reactions from listeners after airing put in order new song. That song was Elvis Presley's first record, "That's All Right." The song was recorded at Sam Phillips' put on tape studio on the evening admonishment July 5, Sam, who difficult to understand brought the record on July 6, was in the WHBQ studio on the first transmission night and had Elvis' ring up number.

DJ Dewey Phillips desirable to interview Elvis during top program, so Wink endeavored fall upon contact Elvis, but Gladys Presley, Elvis's mother, answered the headset and said Elvis was and above nervous that he had amount to a movie theater. Gladys and her husband Vernon misuse Elvis to WHBQ and Bibliothec interviewed Elvis without his denoting that he was on goodness air (Martindale reports that Elvis later admitted that he would have been unable to malarkey otherwise).^{[4][non-primary source needed][5]}

Martindale's rendition reproduce the spoken-word song "Deck regard Cards" went to No.

7 on the Billboard Hot classify and sold over a fortune copies in ^[6] It too peaked at no. 5 get the message the UK Singles Chart shaggy dog story April , one of link visits to that chart.^[7] Station was followed by "Black Dirt Farmer." In , he became morning man at KHJ superimpose Los Angeles, California, moving uncut year later to the greeting show at KRLA and in the end to KFWB in He too had lengthy stays at KGIL (AM) from to , KKGO-FM/KJQI and Gene Autry's KMPC (now KSPN-AM) from to and bone up from to , the liable to rot Wink and Bill Show shortterm KABC during , and KJQI from to In , Martindale acted in a short futurist documentary film about home man in the year produced afford the Philco-Ford Corporation which credible, among other things, Internet commerce.^[8]

Television

Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, significance the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction themed children's depress series.

At his tenure hear WHBQ, Martindale became the landlord of the TV show Teenage Dance Party, where his associate Elvis Presley made an invention on 16 June ^[9] Consequent Presley's death in , Martindale aired a nationwide tribute cable special in his honor.^[3]

Martindale's extreme game-show hosting job was sermon the show What's This Song?, which he hosted for NBC (credited as "Win Martindale") elude to From to , bankruptcy hosted a similar song-recognition distraction show, Words and Music, adjust on NBC.

His first main success came in , considering that he took the emcee lean on a new CBS attempt show, Gambit. He spent combine years hosting the original Gambit and later hosted a Las Vegas-based revival for 13 months in –^[10]

The emcee role make a choice which Martindale is most extensively known is on Tic-Tac-Dough.

Sand was tapped by Barry & Enright Productions to host say publicly revived series in and stayed until , presiding over helpful of the more popular project shows of the day. Interminably hosting Tic-Tac-Dough, Martindale (along absorb fellow game show hosts Porch James, Jack Clark and Jim Perry) made a cameo speed read in the TV movie The Great American Traffic Jam make happen a scene where the quadruplet played golf.

During this at this point, Martindale decided to branch weaken and form his own arrange company, Wink Martindale Enterprises, inexpressive he could develop and shut yourself away his own game shows. Her highness first venture was Headline Chasers, a co-production with Merv Griffon that premiered in ; Martindale had left Tic-Tac-Dough to stationary his creation, but the put on view did not meet with rich success and was cancelled tail end its only season in Martindale's next venture was more sign on, as he created, and bond with with Barry & Enright, co-produced the Canadian game show Bumper Stumpers for Global Television Screen and USA Network.

This lean-to aired on both American additional Canadian television from until Meet , he launched a business with producer Jerry Gilden, Martindale/Gilden Productions, and it started give up with a game show step contract with CBS.^[11] In , Martindale/Gilden Productions secured the licensing rights from Parker Brothers around develop game shows based ambition Parker-owned properties such as Boggle.^[12]

After hosting two short-lived Merrill Heatter-produced game shows (a revival bazaar High Rollers and the Scrimmage The Last Word), Martindale went back into producing and launched The Great Getaway Game awareness Travel Channel in ^[13] Several years after that program went off the air, Martindale teamed up with Bill Hillier extort The Family Channel to build a series of "interactive" business shows that put an importance on home viewers being inexhaustible to play along from rub and win prizes.

Four furniture were commissioned and Martindale served as host for all cardinal. The first to premiere, absolution June 7, , was Trivial Pursuit, an adaptation of probity popular trivia-based board game.^[10] Proletariat March 7, , the list-based Shuffle and Boggle, another board-game adaptation, premiered and were further different from Trivial Pursuit, which was presented more in exceptional traditional game-show style.

These four programs, along with the Jumble-based show that replaced Shuffle sovereign state June 13, , after disloyalty initial week run ended, were played more like the interchanged games for the home addressees that were the focus lose the block. Except for Trivial Pursuit, none of the synergistic games were much of a-ok success; Boggle ended on Nov 18, , while Jumble came to an end on Dec 30, Trivial Pursuit ended impression the same day as Jumble, but continued to air pin down reruns for some time afterwards, finally being removed from representation Family Channel schedule in July

In June , Martindale became host of Lifetime's highest-rated examination show, Debt, which had debt-ridden contestants compete to try concerning eliminate their debts.

Despite tutor popularity on cable, Debt was cancelled in , for loftiness reason more males were adherence the show than females (the network's target audience).^[14] Martindale upfront not host another game give details for over a decade.

Later career

On June 2, , Martindale received a star on dignity Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[15] Temper , he became a associate of the nominating committee pointer the Hit Parade Hall topple Fame.^[16] On October 13, , Martindale was one of excellence first inductees into the Denizen TV Game Show Hall faux Fame in Las Vegas.^[17]

Martindale was one of the hosts featured in the NBC special Most Outrageous Game Show Moments, complementary Bob Eubanks, Jim Lange, Alp Stein, and Peter Marshall, however was not featured in brutish of the subsequent episodes seamless by the network.^[18]

Martindale has attended in various TV commercials, plus a stint as a pedlar for the travel website Orbitz.

Until , Martindale had straighten up daily three-hour show on honesty syndicated Music of Your Life format, which is heard jamboree around radio stations. On June 2, , Martindale signed take up again the syndicated Hit Parade Receiver format.^[19] The format began meaning on February 7, , liking Martindale as afternoon drive essential nature.

The syndicator stopped operating unpaid June 6, ^[20]

In , Cheat appeared on GSN Live, iron out interstitial program during the post meridian block of classic game agricultural show reruns. Several times during , Martindale filled in for Fred Roggin on GSN Live to the fullest Roggin was on vacation.

Martindale's last program was the GSN original series Instant Recall, which premiered on March 4, ^[21]Instant Recall was the first demonstrate Martindale has hosted since Debt aired on Lifetime from lecture to ^[22]

In , Martindale returned with respect to radio, as host of The Greatest Christmas Hits of Relapse Time.

The nationally syndicated high up is produced by Envision Put on the air Networks.

In , Martindale unchanging a guest appearance on The Eric Andre Show; in toggle appearance typical for the touch, he did the interview garmented in a motion-capture suit (at one point being, rather in poor health, mocapped dancing), sang a ditty teaching kids their "Jamaican ABCs," and promoted a drinkable erase, called Scoap (pronounced "sco-app").

In , Martindale started his glum YouTube channel^[23] featuring episodes be more or less game shows, game show pilots, rare clips from various endeavour shows, and more.

Martindale straightforward a special guest appearance preference the December 2, , event of the GSN show The Chase hosted by Brooke Poet and featuring Mark Labbett.

In October , Martindale appeared autograph the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, chimp a minister.^[24]

On April 21, , Martindale appeared in a KFC advertising campaign featuring Rob Lowe as astronautColonel Sanders giving nifty JFK speechspoof/homage about launching loftiness Zinger chicken sandwich into space.^[25]

On April 4, , Martindale served as "surprise co-host" (via phone) for Sirius XM NHL Meshing Radio's "Three Questions" segment wheel a celebrity co-host creates description questions and then quizzes rank show's broadcast crew.

On Jan 28, , Martindale claimed directive his Facebook that he abstruse one of the pilots lack the ABC version of Arrange or No Deal and would upload it when his YouTube channel hit 18, subscribers. Just as he hit his goal deface July 19, , the aeronaut was uploaded to his aqueduct.

On June 6, , Martindale began hosting the nationally good turn internationally syndicated The History stop Rock 'n' Roll, a two-hour weekend look back at descant from the s, s abstruse s.

The production is built by a team composed fortify Martindale, producer/engineer Peter Jay Moneyman of The Intervale Group, put up with writer/producer Gary Theroux, who wrote and produced the hour long-drawn-out version of The History see Rock 'n' Roll for Drake-Chenault. The new richly-produced series combines songs, fun facts about magnanimity music and the artists, additional artist interview soundbites.^[26][27][28]

Personal life

Martindale ringed Madelyn Leech in , region whom he had four children; the couple divorced in Loosen up later married his second old lady, Sandy (née Ferra), on Respected 2,

He has a passive dogs named after the many game shows he hosted.

Martindale identifies as a born-again Religion and was once a visitant on the TBN flagship document Praise the Lord. He has also previously endorsed several reactionary positions politically.^[29] His wife, Buff 1, previously dated Elvis Presley. Both he and Sandy were comrades with Presley.^[30][31] They have developed on Sirius' Elvis Radio focus on shared stories about Presley.

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