Sony rewards switched members from the previous program which also had Spin ID to this current program in Sept 2006. The previous program existed from 2004 or maybe even earlier.
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About 200 new episodes are taped for each new season of Wheel of Fortune.
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Several million. And only about 300 to 350 are selected each year. But you still have a chance, however small, to win cash or prizes.
Pat Sajak is in his 27th year as host of Wheel of Fortune. He joined the series in 1981, when the show aired on network daytime television. The top-ranked syndication version made its debut in 1983, with Sajak at the helm. Since then, he has earned three Emmy Awards, a People's Choice Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The new season starts the third week each September. Weekday reruns begin in mid-June each year.