ABC2 searching for game show contestants

Don’t miss your chance to win $25,000 without ever leaving your couch!

ABC2’s new game show “Let’s Ask America”, which gives viewers a chance to have fun and win money by participating from their own homes, is looking for Baltimore area contestants!

The contestant search will be held at the ABC2 booth, at the Harford County Farm Fair, Friday July 27 ^th from 3pm-8pm.

Participants will also get a chance to meet the host, Kevin Pereira, and even a chance to be in ABC2’s next “Let’s Ask America” promo.

This exciting new game show is extremely unique. Four contestants will conduct a video chat from their homes on each episode, answering questions that Americans were also asked before the show.  

Based on their prediction skills, and maybe a little bit of luck, contestants will earn up to $25,000 cash for answering correctly.

Intense elimination rounds force contestants to find random objects around their home and other surprises that, thanks to viewers playing from home via Skype, have never been possible in a game show before. The half-hour show will air weekdays at 7:30 p.m. on ABC2 beginning September 17th.

“Let’s Ask America” was developed by Jeff Apploff (“Don’t Forget The Lyrics,” “Take Me Out”), Todd Stevens (“Friends,” “Mike & Molly”) and the late Jim Paratore.  Apploff, Stevens and Jack Martin (“Deal Or No Deal,” “Take Me Out”) will executive produce.

“Let’s Ask America” is just one part of the exciting new programming coming to ABC2 in September. Katie Couric’s new talk show, “Katie” premieres on Monday Sept. 10 ^th at 4pm, while new magazine style show “The List” premieres on the same day as “Let’s Ask America,” September 17 ^th, just before it at 7pm.

Interested in being a contestant on "Let’s Ask America"? Go to letsaskamerica.tv for more information on how to apply, or stop by the ABC2 booth at the Farm Fair on July 27th to apply in person!

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WMAR-TV was the nation’s 11th (and Maryland’s first) television station to sign on-the-air in 1947.  The station has been the site of many technological breakthroughs: first with a color film processor for television news and production, and the first zoom camera lens for film and tape cameras. WMAR is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company. 

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For more information contact Alex Shaw, Director of Creative Services 

ABC2, WMAR-TV, 6400 York Rd., Baltimore, MD, 21212  - (410) 372-2461, shaw@wmar.com