{"id":249196,"date":"2026-07-22T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:53:07","slug":"tv-qa-is-a-jeopardy-writer-from-pittsburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249196\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Q&#038;A: Is a \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 writer from Pittsburgh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: There often seem to be questions related to Western Pennsylvania on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d Are any of the writers from the Pittsburgh area?<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Charlotte, North Huntingdon<\/p>\n<p>Rob: I\u2019ve heard others wonder about this, too, so I asked Western Pa. native Jimmy McGuire, formerly a founding member of the \u201cJeopardy! Clue Crew\u201d and now the \u201cJeopardy!\u201d studio floor manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo \u2018Jeop!\u2019 writer from Pgh \u2026 just a great category,\u201d McGuire replied. \u201cSo many people have asked me if I had anything to do with it, but I didn\u2019t \u2026 so proud to be from Pgh!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Q: Why does WPXI occasionally show a banner at the bottom of its screen stating \u201cWPXI Pittsburgh, Uniontown, New Castle\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not constant, but I\u2019ve seen it during the airing of the Olympics and before \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d Just curious about the significance of this.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Joe, via email<\/p>\n<p>Rob: Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-47\/chapter-I\/subchapter-C\/part-73\/subpart-H\/section-73.1201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">federal law<\/a>, \u201cBroadcast station identification announcements shall be made: At the beginning and ending of each time of operation, and hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break in program offerings. Television and Class A television broadcast stations may make these announcements visually or aurally. Official station identification shall consist of the station\u2019s call letters immediately followed by the community or communities specified in its license as the station\u2019s location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regarding WPXI, Channel 11 is licensed to the Pittsburgh TV market and also has translators in New Castle and Uniontown to better extend its broadcast signal; that\u2019s why the banner includes those three locations.<\/p>\n<p>Q: I have been watching reruns of \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d on MeTV. The seventh (and last season) is currently being shown. Do you know if the programs will start over with season one when season seven is completed?<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Sherry, Murrysville<\/p>\n<p>Rob: Per a MeTV representative, yes, the show will start over from the beginning with the pilot episodes airing late Sunday (2 a.m. Monday) on Aug. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Is \u201cGeorgie &amp; Mandy\u2019s First Marriage\u201d being canceled? It was on Thursday and now it\u2019s on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Calvin, via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Rob: Nope, \u201cGeorgie &amp; Mandy\u2019s\u201d will return for its third season this fall. Sometimes shows get moved around in the summer out of scheduling necessity or sometimes to try to expose new viewers who have not previously seen a show. (\u201cGeorgie &amp; Mandy\u2019s\u201d has already moved back to Thursday night as of this writing.)<\/p>\n<p>Q: I\u2019m rewatching the HBO show \u201cPerry Mason.\u201d Do you know if they\u2019re going to make more?<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Tina, via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Rob: The HBO version of \u201cPerry Mason\u201d was canceled in June 2023 after two seasons, so no more episodes will be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Q: There often seem to be questions related to Western Pennsylvania on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d Are any of the writers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-249196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}