Bad Taste Radio - Girl Dumped Live On The Radio

[Richard Chonak]

Shawn Mamros wrote:

> Imagine a quiz show devoted solely to contestants (often whole families)
> of meager financial means.  And if they couldn't answer the questions
> right, they were turned over to the mercy of the "heart line", where
> listeners/viewers would donate money or goods to them. 


Let's also remember "Queen for a Day"; on that show, women competed by 
telling their troubles to win the best rating on the studio "applause 
meter"; the winner would get her wish fulfilled, with the help of 
merchandise gifts from the Spiegel catalog.

The son of one contestant tells his mother's experience on the show:
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/projects/hanley/queen.html

--RC