In 1997, Sajak pulled an April Fool's Day prank on fans when Vanna White and he were contestants on an episode of Wheel hosted by Alex Trebek. In 1993, Sajak appeared as himself on the popular children's cartoon show Rugrats. In 1983, Sajak portrayed Kevin Hathaway in the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. He has written for Human Events and served on the board of directors for the Claremont Institute. Sajak is an external director of conservative publishing house Eagle Publishing and is on the board of trustees at Hillsdale College in southern Michigan, currently as vice chairman.
From at least 2002, he hosted The Pat Sajak Baseball Hour, a syndicated weekly radio sports talk show that ended in 2006 due to scheduling conflicts. Sajak also hosted a program, Pat Sajak Weekend, on the Fox News Channel in 2003. He also became a regular substitute host for Regis Philbin on the syndicated Live with Regis and Kelly. Sajak later became a frequent guest host for CNN's Larry King Live when King was unable to do the show. Dan Miller, Sajak's old friend and former anchor at WSM-TV in Nashville, joined Sajak as his sidekick. Sajak hosted a short-lived late-night talk show on CBS from January 9, 1989, to April 13, 1990. Other game shows on which Sajak appeared as a celebrity guest were Dream House, Just Men!, and Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour.
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Sajak appeared on Super Password several times from 1984 to 1989, as well as Password Plus in 1981, shortly before taking on hosting duties on Wheel. When his late-night talk show on CBS premiered in January 1989, he left the daytime version of Wheel, and was replaced by former San Diego Chargers place-kicker Rolf Benirschke (who was later replaced by Bob Goen when the daytime show moved to CBS in July of that year). Sajak had a small role as a Buffalo, New York newscaster in the 1982 comedy film Airplane II: The Sequel. Sajak was officially honored as such by the Guinness World Records with the episode taped on March 28, 2019, and aired (two days before the primetime version's 7,000th episode). With Sajak returning for his 36th season in 2018–19, he became the longest-running host of any game show, surpassing Bob Barker, who hosted The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007. He hosted both the daytime (NBC) and syndicated evening versions of Wheel from 1983 to 1989, and continues to host the latter version. Sajak, who had already hosted two game show pilots in 1980, Press Your Luck for Ralph Edwards (no relation to the 1983 CBS game show of the same name) and Puzzlers for Mark Goodson, accepted the position. The issue became moot when Silverman was dismissed due to repeated programming failures and replaced by Brandon Tartikoff. However, Fred Silverman, the president and CEO of NBC, rejected his hiring, claiming he was too local, and Griffin responded by imposing a moratorium on new tapings until Sajak was hired. In 1981, Merv Griffin asked Sajak if he would be interested in taking over the duties as host on Wheel of Fortune from Chuck Woolery. Sajak accepted KNBC's request for him to be a full-time weatherman for the station. In 1977, KNBC-TV in Los Angeles was looking for a weatherman, and spotted Sajak working in Nashville. The radio station's television sister, WSM-TV (now WSMV), brought Sajak on screen, first as a voiceover artist doing station identifications and anchoring the five-minute newscasts during NBC's Today Show, then as a weekend and substitute weatherman, where he became acquainted with anchor Dan Miller. Also in the early 1970s, Sajak began DJing at 50,000-watt WSM in Nashville at the time, WSM was playing pop music during the day, and he was the 2:30–5:00 pm afternoon personality. In the early 1970s, Sajak DJed for a Murray, Kentucky, radio station for a year. Upon realizing the error, he decided it would be best not to resume the feed. On the Military Channel's program, An Officer and a Movie, Sajak admitted to botching President Richard Nixon's 1969 Christmas broadcast to the troops he accidentally cut the feed off prematurely. Army and was sent to Vietnam, where he served as a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio.
Sajak applied for the job and was hired to work from midnight to 6:00 am. While at Columbia College Chicago, his broadcasting instructor Al Parker told him that a local radio station ( WEDC) was looking for a newsman.
Sajak won a contest on WLS radio's Dick Biondi Show to be a guest teen deejay. Main articles: Wheel of Fortune (American game show) and The Pat Sajak Show
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