Gilligan&#… Editing John Reed King 1 You are editing an old version of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this version will be lost. You are editing an old version of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this version will be lost. You are not logged in. The rich text editor does not work with JavaScript switched off. Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor <p data-rte-fromparser="true"><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFile%3AJohn_reed_king.jpg%7Cthumb%7Cright%7C350px%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22John_reed_king.jpg%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22John%20reed%20king%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22align%22%3A%22right%22%2C%22caption%22%3A%22%22%2C%22width%22%3A350%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-5694472475f60bc393a0f4" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gilligan5935/images/c/ca/John_reed_king.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140729172038" width="280" height="350" class="image thumb alignRight" data-image-name="John reed king.jpg" data-image-key="John_reed_king.jpg" type="image" /> </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Born on October 25, 1914 in Wilmington, Delaware, <b>John Reed King</b> was a famous radio and television game show personality who hosted numerous game shows through the Thirties to the Sixties. Raised in Atlantic City and a graduate from Princeton, he worked in his family’s 120-room hotel there and began his broadcasting career in the Twenties as manager of his high school dramatic club, narrating a school play on the former WPG radio station and later landing a summer job at the station. King became best known as the voice of radio’s "Sky King," and in the Thirties, he had one of the top-rated radio shows, "Missus Goes A-Shopping" in New York City, going on to host the live television version of the show on August 1, 1944. On January 29, 1946, he hosted the television version of the radio series, "It's a Gift," making these among the first television quiz shows ever aired after "CBS Television Quiz" which ran from 1941-1942. He moved on to work for KDKA radio and television in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Sixties as a morning news anchor for the radio station, later hosting a daily talk show on television. In 1970, he was a news anchor at KGO-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated television station in San Francisco, California. He passed away July 8, 1979 in Woodstown, New Jersey, survived by his wife and three children. </p> <h2 data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Episode(s)</h2> <ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1"><a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22The%20Sweepstakes%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22The%20Sweepstakes%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BThe%20Sweepstakes%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="200544-5694472475f60bc393a0f4" href="/wiki/The_Sweepstakes" title="The Sweepstakes">The Sweepstakes</a> </li></ul> <hr / data-rte-empty-lines-before="1"> <p /> Loading editor Actors Newscasters Below are some commonly used wiki markup codes. Simply click on what you want to use and it will appear in the edit box above. Insert: – — … ° ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § Sign your username: ~~~~ Wiki markup: {{}} | [] [[]] [[Category:]] #REDIRECT [[]] <s></s> <sup></sup> <sub></sub> <code></code> <blockquote></blockquote> <ref></ref> {{Reflist}} <references/> <includeonly></includeonly> <noinclude></noinclude> {{DEFAULTSORT:}} <nowiki></nowiki> <!-- --> <span class="plainlinks"></span> Symbols: ~ | ¡ ¿ † ‡ ↔ ↑ ↓ • ¶ # ¹ ² ³ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ∞ ‘ “ ’ ” «» ¤ ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ $ ₫ ₯ € ₠ ₣ ƒ ₴ ₭ ₤ ℳ ₥ ₦ № ₧ ₰ £ ៛ ₨ ₪ ৳ ₮ ₩ ¥ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ View this template This field is a spam trap. DO NOT fill it in! Edit summary Preview Mobile Desktop Show changes