{"id":36447,"date":"2025-11-17T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36447\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:59:13","slug":"the-national-dog-show-started-from-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/36447\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Dog Show started from a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000, NBC television executive Jon Miller was taken by the movie and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/11\/27\/nx-s1-5207906\/westminster-national-dog-show-thanksgiving-akc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> believed a dog show would make for entertaining television<\/a>. He convinced one of the nation\u2019s oldest dog clubs, the Philadelphia Kennel Club, to rename its event the National Dog Show and make it camera-ready. Every year, the show takes place in early November and is taped for broadcast on Thanksgiving Day.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat first year we had 9 million people watch our show,\u201d said David Frei, who has been an announcer on the National Dog Show since it started. \u201cNow we\u2019ve grown over the years. We have 25 million people watching our show every Thanksgiving Day.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Frei said the National Dog Show does not stray far from its roots.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Best in Show\u2019 did not make fun of the dogs. They made fun of the people. We\u2019re a target-rich environment,\u201d he said. \u201cI know all those people in that movie. I know those characters. I\u2019ve been the guy who couldn\u2019t get the Busy Bee to the dog show and got in trouble for it.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2000, NBC television executive Jon Miller was taken by the movie and believed a dog show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9356,22485,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-36447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-dogs","tag-national-dog-show","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447","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=36447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}