NBC’s 1980 version of Shōgun proved that television could deliver cinematic spectacle and layered storytelling on a mass scale. The miniseries aired over five consecutive nights, drawing in an ...

a television pioneer who hosted the show from the WTAE studios in Pittsburgh, was a star. Months before the April 24, 1980 drawing that saw 666 pop up via the ping pong balls numbered 0 through 9 ...

On April 24, 1980, the Daily Number drawn in ... was supposedly to serve as announcer for live television broadcasts of the nightly drawing, was permitted to take control of the ping pong balls ...

In 1980, the lottery was only eight years old. The Daily Number was a televised drawing conducted nightly at WTAE. The drawing’s host was Nick Perry, a popular television personality perhaps ...