![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Biography:One of the most amiable and best-loved game show hosts ever to grace the airwaves, Chicago native Pat Sajak first entered the world of broadcasting as a "guest teen deejay" on WLS Radio's Dick Biondi Show in 1965. Later, while Sajak was attending Columbia College in Chicago, an instructor informed him of an opening at a local radio station, and after an impressive audition for the program director, the eager student was hired as a newsman on the graveyard shift.
In 1968, Sajak dropped out of Columbia after only three years and joined the Army, entertaining soldiers stationed in Vietnam as a morning-show host on Armed Forces Radio. Upon returning stateside, Sajak had little luck finding radio and television work in Washington, D.C., and began working as a desk clerk at the downtown Madison Hotel. Later, when a friend informed him of an opening at a small radio station in southeastern... Full Biography
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