Geoff Edwards is an American television actor, game show host and radio personality born on February 13, 1931 in Westfield, New Jersey. a Radio Personality is the modern incarnation of the disk jockey, or DJ. In the 1990s, successful radio stations began to focus less on the musical expertise of their hosts and more on the individual hosts personalities. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Official language(s) None defined, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 47th 22,608 km² 110 km 240 km 14. ...

Edwards began his career while in college, working for a radio station in Albany, New York. By the late 1950s, Edwards headed west to Southern California, landing his first true job at station KFMB. As a news reporter, Edwards was present in the basement of the Dallas Police Department when Jack Ruby shot suspected John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963. He was one of the witnesses interviewed by NBC Television Correspondent Tom Pettit after the murder. KFMB is the call sign used for three broadcast stations in the San Diego, California area, all owned by Midwest Television. ... Dallas Police Department mugshot of Ruby Jacob Leon Rubenstein (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in December 1947. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

After a few short stints at other stations, Edwards was hired at KMPC in Los Angeles, occupying the 9 AM-noon slot for several years beginning in 1968. KMPC-1540 KMPC-1540 is known to the Los Angeles and Orange County area as 1540: The Ticket. It is owned and operated by the radio division of the Sporting News magazine, although much of the networks daily programming doesnt air on the station, except in certain situations. ...

During that time, Edwards tried his hand at acting, appearing on I Dream of Jeannie and Petticoat Junction; the latter of which he met and maintained a very close friendship with Meredith MacRae for more than three decades. I Dream of Jeannie stars Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden. ... Petticoat Junction was an American situation comedy that was produced by Filmways, Inc. ... Meredith MacRae (born May 30, 1944 in Houston, Texas, died July 14, 2000 in Manhattan Beach, California) was an American actress. ...

In the early-1970s, Edwards appeared on The Bobby Darin Show as the straight man to singer Bobby Darin. After that series ended, Edwards decided to go into game shows. Bobby Darin in concert. ...

His first game show effort was in 1973 on Jack Barry's Hollywood's Talking, which is a remake of an earlier game show, Everyone's Talking and the Canadian hit Eye Bet, in which contestants watched a clip of a celebrity talking about a subject, and the contestants' job was to guess what the celebrity was talking about. That series did not fare well and was discontinued by CBS. Six months later, Edwards was hired by NBC to host the New York-based Jackpot. That series proved to be a modest success for Edwards, lasting nearly two years, and eventually Chuck Barris hired Edwards to host the weekly game show Treasure Hunt, which he did for four years (1973-77) and again for one year (1981-82) on a five-days-a-week basis. On Treasure Hunt, Edwards was required to memorize 29 skits (65 in the 1981-82 revival) due to security reasons, which was a natural for Edwards who had prior acting experience. Jack Barry (March 20, 1918 - May 2, 1984) was an American television game show host and producer, whose career was nearly ruined in the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s but who made a remarkable comeback over a decade later. ... CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Jackpot was a game show seen on NBC in the 70s and the USA Network in the 80s. ... Chuck Barris on the set of The Gong Show. ... This article is about the television game show. ... This article is about the television game show. ...

Other game shows Edwards hosted over the years included the New York-based Shoot For The Stars in 1977, Chain Reaction (as a sub host in 1980 and a regular host from 1986-91), Starcade, Play the Percentages (which was produced by Barry/Enright), and a revival of Jackpot from 1989-90. Shoot For The Stars was a modestly successful daytime game show which aired on the NBC television network. ... A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions. ... Starcade is a television game show where constestants competed against one another by playing video games Categories: United States television programme stubs ... Hosted by Geoff Edwards, this game show ran in syndication from January 7, 1980-September 12, 1980. ... Jackpot was a game show seen on NBC in the 70s and the USA Network in the 80s. ...

Edwards holds the distinction of being one of the very few emcees to host a game show in Los Angeles and a game show in New York at the same time. He is also one of three game shows hosts to have hosted a game show in the United States and a game show in Canada concurrently (the other two were Alex Trebek and Jim Perry). However, Edwards had no ties to Canada like Trebek and Perry do, and he was required to have a co-host on Chain Reaction who was Canadian. Alex Trebek George Alexander Trebek (birth name Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek, born July 22, 1940), is a Canadian-born American television personality, best known as the host of the game show Jeopardy! for the past 22 years. ... James Edward Perry (born November 11, 1934, in Camden, New Jersey) was a television game show host in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Chain Reaction was an American game show seen on the NBC network in 1980, and the USA cable network in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

Edwards was also co-host of the popular Los Angeles news program Mid Morning L.A., replacing Bob Hilton in the early-1980s and paired with co-host Meredith MacRae. Edwards and MacRae won a Emmy Award for best host and best hostess respectively for a news magazine series. Bob Hilton with The Price Is Right announcer Rich Fields. ... Meredith MacRae (born May 30, 1944 in Houston, Texas, died July 14, 2000 in Manhattan Beach, California) was an American actress. ...

In 1986, Geoff became host of Big Spin, a California Lottery series (replacing original host Chuck Woolery, who left to concentrate solely on his other game show projects). Edwards remained host until his retirement from television around 1997. Chuck Woolery, 2003 Chuck Woolery (born March 16, 1941) is a popular game show host. ...

In later years, Edwards traveled extensively, hosting traveling programs on both radio and television. He is now semi-retired and living in California, and continues to write extensively about travel. Edwards is also an avid fan of video arcade games.

Geoff Edwards can also refer to a Canadian voice actor of the same name who is the voice of animator James Farr's Xombie character named Dirge. He was a music journalist and CBC Radio host for nearly ten years. He lives in the community of Chilliwack near Vancouver BC, Canada. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... Xombie is an animated web cartoon created by James Farr, set in a post-apocalyptic Earth in the near future. ... Music journalism is a specialized branch of entertainment journalism--especially criticism and reportage about music, usually rock, but also hip hop, classical, and electronica, among other forms. ... CBC Radio is the English language radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Larry Campbell Governing Body Vancouver City Council Latitude: Longitude: 49°16...