Live At The Ohio State Fair
Beginning in 1966 on a request from then-Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, The Paul Dixon Show (and other local shows on WLWT) began making annual visits to the Ohio State Fair, broadcasting their shows live on location. The following year attendance at the state fair increased by an estimated 1.2 million. The live shows at the fair continued well into the 1970s.
By the end of the 1960s, nearly 600,000 people had been a part of Dixon's studio audience, (by comparison, this figure is nearly twice the 2006 population of Cincinnati proper), and Dixon had given away upwards of 3,000 Osherwicz Kosher Salamis. At the show's peak there was a two-year waiting list for tickets.
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