作品
Cash Explosion, known as Cash Explosion: Double Play from 1989 until 2012, is the official Ohio Lottery TV game show, which is broadcast on television stations throughout Ohio. The show originated in Cleveland and is now taped by Mills James Productions in Columbus, Ohio along with the lottery drawings.
在包含此条目的事件档案中探索信息与关系。
还没有包含此条目的事件档案。
从此条目开始调查等待第一条评论。
Cash Explosion, known as Cash Explosion: Double Play from 1989 until 2012, is the official Ohio Lottery TV game show, which is broadcast on television stations throughout Ohio. The show originated in Cleveland and is now taped by Mills James Productions in Columbus, Ohio along with the lottery drawings.
Cash Explosion (or simply C.E. since 2017), known as Cash Explosion: Double Play from 1989 until 2012, is the official Ohio Lottery TV game show, which is broadcast on television stations throughout Ohio. The show originated in Cleveland and is now taped by Mills James Productions in Columbus, Ohio along with the lottery drawings.
Cash Explosion originally aired from February 7, 1987, to September 30, 2006, at which point the Ohio Lottery replaced it with Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich. However, slumping ticket sales and poor ratings prompted the return of the Cash Explosion format a year later, on October 6, 2007, and it has remained on the air since.
Cash Explosion is the longest-running state lottery based game show, surpassing California's The Big Spin, which ended its run on January 10, 2009, after 23 years and 1,213 episodes. As of September 27, 2014, Cash Explosion has run for 26 years and 1,433 episodes.
As of 2016, Cash Explosion is the only weekly lottery game show airing in the United States.
Bob Grossi (then a weather anchor at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio) was the original host, and was replaced in 1988 by Cleveland radio personality Paul Tapié. Tapié left the show for a few months in 2000. During this, Safe Auto spokesman Michael Armstrong took over. Sharon Bicknell was the co-host from the beginning until February 2004, returning in 2007 until the present. Michelle Duda and Leilani Barrett took over as hosts in February 2004, and remained through the end of the first run. Regular lottery drawing hosts Karen Harris and Bob Becker (deceased) substituted on various occasions. John E. Douglas (Cleveland) has the longest run as the "off stage announcer" from 1989 until 2006; Douglas died in July 2016. Beneatha Barkley joined the lottery host rotation in April 2003 and remained until October, when she was replaced by Karen Kawolics. Cherie McClain joined the lottery drawing hosting team in 2006.
Seven contestants, each of whom submitted a Cash Explosion scratchcard ticket with three matching "ENTRY" symbols, competed in a race to reach the top of an eleven-step pyramid in order to win $50,000. The losing contestants were each given $1,000.
Each contestant had a box of cards in front of them, numbered –2 to 3, with no zero cards. On their turn each contestant drew a card, then moved up or down the pyramid by the number of spaces indicated. The first person to land on the final square by exact count won $50,000. If a contestant returned to the start line at any point in the game, they were eliminated from the game.
In every contestant's track was a randomly designated bonus square. Landing on it gave the contestant the option to leave the game and take a new car or stay in the game. Regardless of their decision, once two bonus squares had been revealed, all other bonus squares were voided.
Toward the end of this format, each contestant was staked $1,000. For each legitimate move up or down the track, the contestant won/lost $50 (i.e., a 2 was worth $100 in addition to moving up the track 2 spaces; a –2 decreased their score by $100). Still later, moving up or down was worth $100 per move. Reaching the goal augmented the contestant's total to $50,000, while the others could keep their cash or trade it away for a spin of the wheel in the second round. Those eliminated by penalty still received $1,000.
The contestants who had not been eliminated during the course of the game, whether by choice (with the bonus squares) or by penalty, were eligible to trade their winnings and spin a wheel containing various amounts of cash (originally cash and prizes from a differently-built wheel). The odds of spinning something worth more than $1,000 were high, so contestants often spun the wheel.
Four people competed in the Semifinal game. The contestants faced a 24-space game board with six columns of four rows. The columns were labeled D-O-U-B-L-E and the rows labeled P-L-A-Y. On a contestant's turn, the columns randomly flashed and the contestant pressed their button to stop the lights on a column, then picked one of the four rows in that column, winning whatever money was behind the space represented by that combination.
The values on the board ranged from $250 to $3,200. Early in the show's run, the $250 amount was removed making the minimum $1,000. Also on the board were two spaces marked "DOUBLE". If chosen, the contestant received another turn and whatever they land on was doubled; if the second pick was also a double, the contestant received a third turn, quadrupling the money found. The third special square was a “BONUS” card, which not only contained a money amount, but also a bonus prize (originally a new car, later $25,000). Originally the contestant had to choose whether he or she wanted the bonus (dropping out of further play if they took it) or the money. However, by 1993, contestants were simply awarded both the car and the hidden cash amount.
Fr
来源：Cash Explosion （CC BY-SA）
结构化信息、用户意见与 AI 提取的关系会分别标注。
Following its October 2007 return, David McCreary, a comedy magician who had previously hosted Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich, became the new host with Bicknell returning, and McClain also joining the cast. Becker, Harris and Kawlolics served as rotating lottery drawing hosts until Harris and Becker's retirements in 2008 and 2013 respectively. Eric Parks replaced the retired hosts at the beginning of 2014 and served until 2019.
Barb McCann was Cash Explosion's Special Correspondent from 2007 to 2008. McCann won a contest during the run of Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich in which viewers voted on their favorite co-host among those auditioning.
Following the 30th Anniversary Special in 2017, Alissa Henry (a reporter with WSYX-TV in Columbus) became the new co-host (alongside McCreary), replacing both Bicknell and McClain, who both became rotating lottery drawing hosts. At the same time, the series alternatively began to be called C.E., while McCreary, Henry, and the lottery drawing hosts began alternating as announcer. David Saglila replaced Parks in 2020.
