TV POWWW was a syndicated game show, in which viewers via telephone control the video game featured in the program, in hopes of winning prizes. TV POWWW was a franchised game show format, hosted locally by hosts at stations that purchased the rights to the program. TV POWWW was syndicated from the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.
The actual formatting of the program may vary -- many presented TV POWWW as a series of segments that run during the commercial breaks of television programming (a la Dialing for Dollars), while some (such as KCOP in Los Angeles) presented TV POWWW as a standalone program.
TV POWWW used games from the Fairchild Channel F console early in its run. Later, they would switch to Intellivision games, after that console went on the market.
