another game show mic question

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anybody know what that mic was that Gene Rayburn used on "The Match Game"?
Thanks,
Greg
orange@the-spa.com

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"John Noll" <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> orange wrote:
>> anybody know what that mic was that Gene Rayburn used on "The Match
>> Game"?
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>> orange@the-spa.com
>
>
>
> Sony ECM-51

Gene Rayburn would be proud.

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John Noll <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote:
>Richard Crowley wrote:
>>
>> "John Noll" <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>> orange wrote:
>>>
>>>> anybody know what that mic was that Gene Rayburn used on "The Match
>>>> Game"?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Greg
>>>> orange@the-spa.com
>>>
>>> Sony ECM-51
>>
>> Gene Rayburn would be proud.
>
>Believe it or not there are some people out there who
>are very infatuated with this TV show and will pay top
>dollar for one of these mics.

I have not watched any TV game shows in many years, but what I have seen
mostly used the various Shure handheld omnis as presenters' microphones.
Sadly, most of those mikes went away when Shure cleaned their catalogue
out a decade ago.

Occasionally some of the American mikes turned up.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."