Trivia

When hosting The Joker's Wild (1972), it was Richard S. Kline's call for him to be wearing glasses, though he really didn't need them. Being unfamiliar to television, Kline thought of Finn's appearance that he'd be intelligent. By the time Finn hosted Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), he took his glasses off, though he would wear them occasionally.

Graduated from Coughlin High School in Wilkes-Barre, PA, in 1974 He hosted over 700 shows of Shop 'Til You Drop! on 3 different networks Was a weatherman and a disc jockey Works for In-Finn-Ity direct products to where he's produces shows

Works for In-Finn-Ity Direct products to where he produces shows

Has hosted over 700 shows on Shop 'Til You Drop on 3 different networks

Graduated from Coughlin High School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1974.

Before he was a successful game show host and producer, he was also a weatherman and a newscaster in San Francisco, California.

Is very good friends with Bob Eubanks, Bob Goen, Rich Fields, and Wink Martindale. Was also friends with Geoff Edwards.

Despite accepting the role of host on Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), replacing Scott Herriott, Finn had to have lost at least 10 pounds and at the same time, had to color his hair, he did exactly what his contract had asked him to.

When he was under contract with Kline & Friends, he really didn't host the pilot of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991). He only got the job because The Joker's Wild had dropped in the ratings.

Is a lifelong friend of David Ruprecht. Ruprecht's show (Supermarket Sweep (1990)) had frequently aired before Finn's Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), on Lifetime before PAX.

Finn is the oldest of 5 children --- born to William, who was a core driller, and to Celia Mae, who worked at Bell Telephone, when she was younger and, for several years, at Blue Cross after her children had grown before a long and fulfilling retirement.

Before he was a successful game show host and producer, he used to work at WXPI on Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Carcinoma ran in Finn's family. Beginning with his mother, Celia Mae Finn, who passed away on March 12, 2013, who lived to be 77, after a long battle against cancer. The following year, his father, William Finn, who passed away on May 8, 2014, who lived to be 79, also from a long battle against cancer.

Best known by the public as the host of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991).

When he began hosting game shows, after departing from San Francisco, California, he had absolutely no connection to the classic game shows that have been previously recorded at CBS Television City, Studio 33, in Los Angeles, California.

He was one of the guys to audition for the hosting job of Wheel of Fortune (1975), but lost it, however, the job was given to Rolf Benirschke.

He was born on the same day, when the New York City's Copacabana nightclub, both Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed their last comedy show together.

Before he was a successful game show host and a producer, he was also a weatherman on WBRE-TV 28, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Met an unfamiliar game show announcer Mark L. Walberg in 1990, before Finn would replaced Herriott as host of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991). They remained friends to this day.

Veteran game show director Richard S. Kline took him under his wing, when Finn was 33. The friendship lasted for 31 years, until Kline's own death on March 24, 2020.

Met veteran game show host, Wink Martindale, around the same time Finn was hosting The Joker's Wild (1972), in 1989, where he met Martindale's former director, Richard S. Kline, and all three, became friends, most notably, Kline, until his death in 2020.

On both of his finales of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), he did not know if he'd really said goodbye to the show, when he really knew that it was a possibility for his show to end. He did, however, included his final speech on both of them, between The Family Channel & PAX-TV.

His mentor was the late Richard S. Kline.

Has highly praised Richard S. Kline for his stardom as a game show host.

A fan of Mark Goodson-produced game shows, Finn had also worked with Mark's son, Jonathan M. Goodson, on a lottery game show, but had limited conversations, together, after Mark's death.

Prior to hosting Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), Bob Goen visited him, there, and borrowed the show's t-shirt for a game show Goen was hosting, at the time, during one of the tapings of the bonus rounds. Upon Finn's permission, Goen wanted to thank him for borrowing that.

Credits Richard S. Kline as his favorite mentor/friend.

While working on Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), he hired an unfamiliar television personality JD Roberto, to play the role of the man on the street, who was also walking around in a mall, where Comcast High Speed Internet, was Finn's company. Roberto would later replace Finn as host of the same show, in 2003.

As a game show host, he was highly influenced by Richard S. Kline.

On the pilot episode of The Joker's Wild (1972), when Finn was remembering his lines, whilst spreading humor with the contestants, Richard S. Kline, had cautioned him not to spread any humor.

He received a phone call from both Scott A. Stone and David G. Stanley, about the 4th revamped version of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), they decided not to hire him, so, in order for the show to go into a completely different direction, they decided to hire somebody else, like JD Roberto, a friend of Finn's.