Why Wink Martindale was a "never give up" guy

TV Confidential with Ed Robertson · May 5, 2025 · 23m

TVC 688.1: TV Confidential remembers longtime radio host, author, recording artist, and game show legend Wink Martindale (Gambit, Debt, Tic Tac Dough, Winking at Life, "Deck of Cards") with a special program-length tribute to the man who became synonymous with the words "emcee" and "host." Wink Martindale passed away on Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2025 at the age of ninety-one. In this segment, Steve Beverly, retired professor of broadcast journalism at Union University in Jackson, TN (the hometown of Wink Martindale), game show historian, and the host of Steve Beverly's TV Classics, talks to Ed about…