Re: DVP's Newspaper Archive

On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 6:11:03 PM UTC-4, David Von Pein wrote:
> Just one small correction to John Corbett's last post..... Paul Dixon's 
> show wasn't done from Indianapolis. It was done in Cincinnati. 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dixon_Show

Maybe someday I'll learn to fact check instead of relying on my memories. 
That will probably happen some time after I start proof reading my posts. 
I don't know why I thought his show originated in Indianapolis but I would 
have bet my house on it. I never watched the show other than to catch a 
few minutes while channel surfing. Of all the shows I mentioned, Phil 
Donahue's was the only one I thought was worth watching. I thought he did 
a better show out of Dayton than when he moved to Chicago and took his 
show national, eventually ending up in New York. After he went national he 
seemed more inclined to do ratings grabbing shows rather than intelligent 
discussions of current topics. He called those T and A shows for tits and 
ass. He claimed he only did about one of those a week but I don't recall 
him doing those at all in Dayton. Eventually he began losing the ratings 
war to people like Oprah and the cesspool of tabloid TV with the likes of 
people like Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati and one time 
gubernatorial candidate in Ohio. I think it was 1982 that he was locked in 
a five way battle for the Democrat nomination for governor in Ohio when it 
was revealed he had spent time with a prostitute. He fessed up and 
admitted it but the damage was done and so was his political career. I'm 
sure he made way more money with his trash TV show than he ever would have 
made in politics.

I didn't fact check the Jerry Springer story but I'm pretty sure I got it 
right.