Over the next five years, more and more stations begin airing the show in the same 'pattern' now matching affiliates in major cities.

At this point, and concurrent with the debut of Jeopardy!, episodes of Wheel are now transmitted by satellite to subscribed affiliates in markets with the hardware to receive and record the shows.

The King World credit is changed to the company's 'star' logo, and is moved up to the center of the Wheel (itself changed to use the Round 3 layout).

Also, the show now uses the same style of Griffin logo that the daytime series adopted in February 1984, with much smaller text in the Peignot font, and with the blinking animation removed from the griffin.

The show is now credited as being 'produced by Merv Griffin Enterprises', and the Griffin logo is altered accordingly.The occasional practice of fee plugs being pre-recorded by their respective companies is discontinued, and does not return until Season 14.'N as in Nancy'), except when necessary if Pat does not hear them clearly.

Around this point, at Merv's insistence, contestants generally stop using 'as in' when calling their letters (e.g.

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