Editing Golden Age of Radio (section)

=== Game shows ===
[[Game show]]s saw their beginnings in radio. One of the first was ''[[Information Please]]'' in 1938, and one of the first major successes was ''[[Dr. I.Q.]]'' in 1939. ''[[Winner Take All (game show)|Winner Take All]]'', which premiered in 1946, was the first to use lockout devices and feature returning champions.

A relative of the game show, which would be called the giveaway show in contemporary media, typically involved giving sponsored products to studio audience members, people randomly called by telephone, or both. An early example of this show was the 1939 show [[Pot o' Gold (radio program)|''Pot o' Gold'']], but the breakout hit of this type was ABC's [[Stop the Music (American game show)|''Stop the Music'']] in 1948. Winning a prize generally required knowledge of what was being aired on the show at that moment, which led to criticism of the giveaway show as a form of "buying an audience". Giveaway shows were extremely popular through 1948 and 1949. They were often panned as low-brow, and an unsuccessful attempt was even made by the [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] to ban them (as an illegal lottery) in August 1949.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1949-08-20|title=FCC Bans Give-Away Radio Shows|page=1|work=The Miami Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60864265/fcc-bans-give-away-radio-shows/|access-date=2020-10-10}}</ref>