cornsilk:

With the success of The Oprah Winfrey Show and the national attention that Oprah [Winfrey] received from The Color Purple, [Jeffrey] Jacobs advised her that it was time to syndicate her show. Jacobs worked out a deal with the syndication company King World to distribute the show nationally. Two brothers, Roger and Michael King, ran King World. They syndicated the game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! and were looking for a new show to add to their list.

[…] persons who contributed to the fund will be satisfied if this money be used for some purpose in line with the intentions of the donaters.

Maybe by the year 2000 we could have the Lincoln Version—four score and seven—dumping 87 skiers geschmozzle-fashion on the top.