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[tvrandywest]

Jimmy Owen, on 10 March 2012 - 07:57 AM, said:

I wonder why Mr. Grundy didn't just make a show called "Scrabble," sell it to the network, and just worry about Selchow after it was a hit or became a flop?
/That's how he operated in Oz

Al Howard tells the story of Grundy arriving in a hotel room in New York with a pen and legal pad to watch American game shows so that he could "create" his new formats.  The Jurrasic period for intellectual property copyright.

Randy
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[chris319]

He became even more brazen than that. I've been told he used to tape the shows.

If he ripped off one of my formats and wanted to produce it after the copyright law changed, I'd be happy to let him do so -- for 75% of the profit and a quarterly audit of all production expenses.

Here is the cure for Reg Grundy.

[Bryce L.]

tvrandywest, on 09 March 2012 - 01:05 PM, said:

Otm Shank, on 09 March 2012 - 12:29 PM, said:

It was mentioned in the credits of every episode of Scrabble. I always wondered, what exactly was the role that "Exposure Unlimited" had with the production? I know that, particularly with Mark Goodson's shows, that each show had a different shell company that was listed in the copyright page of the credits (and that's another question for another day). Was that merely the name of the content producers, while Reg Grundy Productions handled the studio production? It seems safe to google it, but it comes up with nothing that existed in the 1980s. Any insight?

Exposure Unlimited was (is?) an advertising agency that specializes in product placement for clients' products and services as game show prizes. It's a niche business that has been called "prize shlepper." The most successful and respected independent of these companies is Promotional Consideration Inc., run by former "Squares" producer Art Alisi and his partner Dan Fox, two truly wonderful guys, who still work with WOF and other shows.

Quick story: I had become friendly with Art Alisi from my multiple appearances on shows and pilots. When I won prizes that I really didn't want on "All Star Blitz," Art bent the rules and applied the cash he had tied up in those goods in my favor, and orchestrated a trade for some trips which he acquired, in trade, from... Exposure Unlimited!

Randy
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Sorry to bump an old thread, but I saw this kinda-sorta revived by a new post today, so here goes... in Stan Blits' book about "The Price is Right", he mentions that CBS has a department called Promotional Placement and Awards that tries to, as one of their duties, get prizes for its game shows... would Exposure Unlimited be one of the companies CBS' Promotional Placement and Awards department most likely would be in fairly frequent contact with (given that CBS now has "Let's Make A Deal" in daytime as well as "Price")?

[Otm Shank]

Bryce L., on 13 May 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

would Exposure Unlimited be one of the companies CBS' Promotional Placement and Awards department most likely would be in fairly frequent contact with (given that CBS now has "Let's Make A Deal" in daytime as well as "Price")?

Promotional Consideration, Inc. (as I found out through the discussion) is the successor organization to Exposure Unlimited. The PCI website does not list Let's Make A Deal as one of the shows that it services.

http://www.pcitv.net/shows.html

However, they did work with a version of Let's Make a Deal that aired on Univision, the 2003 Billy Bush-hosted show, and the 1996 knockoff The Big Deal.