Sajak also hosted a daytime version of the show from 1981 to 1989. Sajak was doing weather reports at KNBC in Los Angeles when Merv Griffin, the creator of “Wheel of Fortune” offered him a job ...

But Sajak actually quit Wheel of Fortune once before in 1989 to host his own talk show. At the time, there were two daily episodes of Wheel -one airing on NBC during the daytime as well as the ...