Even The Chicago City Council – the same group who gave us “Council Wars” – hauled Springer into a hearing asking whether or not the fights on the show were authentic. Sabina Church (who led boycotts outside the NBC Tower over the show) to the conservative Parents Television Council. The show had a lengthy list of critics from both sides of the political coin, from the liberal Rev. newscast, leading to the resignation of anchors Ron Magers and Carol Marin. Management at WMAQ thought it was a good idea for Springer to do a nightly commentary segment on the station’s 10 p.m.
Springer’s first altercation came in a 1994 episode with a group of Black Panthers and Nazis squaring off.īy 1997, Springer soared to the top with numbers not seen in daytime syndication in decades with numerous on-air altercations. Then came the on-air fighting – something you’d rarely see on a talk show until Geraldo Rivera’s nose was busted by a chair in a melee involving Neo-Nazi skinheads on an 1988 episode of his talk show. In 19, Springer was one of many “trash TV” shows in the marketplace, including Ricki Lake, Charles Perez, and Jenny Jones, whose “secret crush” episode led to a murder. And boy, did it ever with topics like “My Boyfriend Turned Out To Be A Girl” among others. So in order to boost ratings, the show needed to up the sleaze factor.
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In 1992, the show moved to Chicago’s NBC Tower and two years later, the series nearly faced cancellation. When Springer started in 1991, it was produced at Cincinnati’s WLWT (where he anchored their newscasts) and was your typical discussion show a la Donahue – early guests include Rev. Before Jersey Shore, Flavor Of Love, Love And Hip-Hop, The Real Housewives of Whatever City, and other reality tripe – and before the incivility we see everywhere these days, there was Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! As his show enters “production hiatus” – perhaps permanently as The CW recently bought rerun rights to his show, we look back at the legacy Jerry Springer left. To say Jerry Springer didn’t have an impact on our culture is like saying cigarette smoking doesn’t cause cancer.īut here we are in 2018 as what we saw as outrageous back then is the norm now. JT Dog’s Think Tank: The legacy Jerry Springer leavesįor better or worse – mostly worse, Jerry Springer shaped television and society