{"id":22465,"date":"2015-02-05T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:09:16","slug":"guess-whos-network-broadcastings-longest-running-host-bob-barker-is-a-clos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22465","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who&#8217;s Network Broadcasting&#8217;s Longest Running Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Who&#8217;s Network Broadcasting&#8217;s Longest Running Host&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Barker is a close second with 34\u2154 years years on &#8220;The Price Is Right&#8221;, but the winner and still champion is Don McNeil with a 35\u00bd tenure as host of a network entertainment program.<\/p>\n<p>Counting only television, Barker wins, but when you add radio to the mix, &#8220;The Don McNeil Breakfast Club&#8221; from Chicago comes in first. The show started on the NBC Blue Network, but then became an ABC Radio show with the divestiture.<\/p>\n<p>It originated in Chicago and ran from 1933 to 1968. In 1950, the show was simulcast on ABC for a year, and then again in 1954. Below is a clip from 1954. Thanks to Barry Mitchell for reminding us of Don. Enjoy and share. -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DON McNEILL&amp;apos;S BREAKFAST CLUB PART 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myqfeZ0rMfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/793902580647293\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Guess-Whos-Network-Broadcastings-Longest-Running-Host...-Bob-Barker-is-a-clos\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/793909173979967\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Who&#8217;s Network Broadcasting&#8217;s Longest Running Host&#8230; Bob Barker is a close second with 34\u2154 years years on &#8220;The Price Is Right&#8221;, but the winner and still champion is Don McNeil with a 35\u00bd tenure as host of a network entertainment program. Counting only television, Barker wins, but when you add radio to the mix, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[784,724,720,782,725],"class_list":["post-22465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc","tag-cast","tag-host","tag-nbc","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59189,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions\/59189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}