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How many people have “been on TV”

How many people in the US have “been on tv”. There Isaacs got in my hometown who’s whole identity is that he was a contestant on a committe cooking show. I’m trying to gauge how common it is for a random person that you might meet at a bar to have been on TV. By this I mean:

  • non actors
  • not the news -not just in the audience

I think that predominantly leaves game show contestants and reality tv show contestants. What do you think?

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  • I got interviewed on the local news once about a visiting animal expert when I was in elementary school, best I got. I don't really remember much about it other than getting to pet a boa constrictor and the light on the camera being very bright.

  • My best friend was on The People’s Court.

    She has a small claims case against a mechanic or something. She lost, but was paid a per diem for her time that was similar to the amount she was seeking anyways. She says good things about meeting Judge Marilyn Milian.

    My friend didn’t seek being put in the show, she was approached by the producers when she showed up to the courthouse. Said, “why not”.

  • I was on a kids show as “participating audience” in the very early 90s.

    Idk about statistics but I feel those were, at least for a period of time, pretty common to have locally broadcast.

  • Once when I was in high school the local news channel installed a weather station on the school roof. They sent a camera crew and a reporter to cover the "grand opening", and I was in several shots. After the initial news report (which doesn't qualify under OP's params), they used the footage in commercials that advertised the news show.

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