Leola six-time game show contestant wins the opportunity to host a game show podcast

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  Aniya Faulcon is The Spark Host/Producer for WITF. She has a passion for shining a light on unique people, experiences, and perspectives within the community.
  
  Previously she worked as the People and Social Trends Reporter/Video Anchor for LancasterOnline | LNPNews. During her time there, she created video packages, provided Facebook Live coverage at community events, and wrote data-driven stories with census data and feature stories on local leaders, non-profit organizations, events, and people with unique talents and experiences within Lancaster County.
  
  Aniya also worked at WMAR ABC 2 News as a Sales Assistant and at the AFRO American Newspapers as an Executive Assistant and Media correspondent. Aniya interned at WEAA Gospel Grace 88.9 and worked at her alma mater’s radio station, WWPJ at Point Park University, where she gained skills and a passion for radio.
  
  Aniya grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and attended the Baltimore School for the arts for high school with a concentration in acting. She continued to hone her skills and passion for storytelling and later graduated from Point Park University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and Broadcast Reporting. Aniya is eager to continue her journey with storytelling in her role with WITF, as she aims to shed a light on real people and real stories within Pennsylvania in a variety of mediums.

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The Price Is Right Daytime Emmys-themed episode is taped at CBS Studios on May 24, 2010 in Los Angeles. The longest running game show is on the road with the "Come On Down Tour" — making 50 stops on a coast-to-coast tour starting in Los Angeles this week.

Christian Carrion, local six-time game show contestant, who’s appeared on ABC’s Match Game in 2019, received his dream opportunity to host and produce a Strong National Museum of Play podcast, Tell Us About Yourself: Conversations with Game Show Contestants, which will be a part of their National Archives of Game Show History.

Carrion joined us 0n The Spark Monday to discuss his career as an award-winning game show contestant and new podcast host and producer.

His game show contestant experience started at the age of eighteen when he was picked to be a contestant on The Price is Right.

Carrion said, in order to be a successful game show contestant one needs skill and a little bit of luck.

Carrion’s dream job is to be a game show host and with his luck he’s coming pretty close; as he has the opportunity, during the Tell Us About Yourself: Conversations with Game Show Contestants podcast, to interview game show contestants that he grew up idolizing on TV.

“I’ve been talking to people from all over the country spanning decades of TV, and I’m having the absolute time of my life,” Carrion said.

The Associated Press and WITF’s democracy reporter Jordan Wilkie are partnering to tell stories about how Pennsylvania elections work, and to debunk misinformation surrounding elections. 

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