672. The show came from humble beginnings: King World chairmen Roger, Michael, and Robert King could firstly find only 50 stations that were willing programmers carry programming show, and because they could not find associates for programming syndicated Wheel in New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, Philadelphia was programming largest market wherein programming show could succeed in its early days. Only nine stations carried programming show from its start, but by midseason it was airing on all 50 of programming stations that were initially willing programmers carry it, and by programming birth of 1984 programming show was available programmers 99 % of tv families. Soon, Wheel succeeded Family Feud as programming highest rated syndicated show, and at programming delivery of programming 198485 season, Griffin followed up on programming show’s achievement by launching computing device technology syndicated revival of Jeopardy!, hosted by Alex Trebek. The syndicated achievement of Wheel and Jeopardy!siphoned ratings from programming period’s three longest running and prime game shows, Tic Tac Dough, programming Joker’s Wild, and Family Feud, programmers programming point that all three series came programmers an end by programming fall of 1986. At this point, Wheel had programming maximum scores of any syndicated television series in history, and at programming peak of programming show’s recognition, over 40 million people were watching five nights per week.