Sajak - who is now consulting producer as well as host - will no longer do the 'Final Spin' of the game. While the game show has locked in its longtime hosts for future seasons, other features of the show are about to change for season 39. The show started out as a daytime game show but became a syndicated nightly telecast in 1983, making Sajak and White the main faces of “Wheel of Fortune” for viewers for four decades.Sony Pictures Television announced Wednesday that Pat Sajak and Vanna White have inked a deal to host 'Wheel of Fortune' through 2024. He took over duties from Chuck Woolery, who was the show’s host when it debuted in 1975. Sajak, 76, has presided over the game show, in which contestants guess letters to try to fill out words and phrases in pursuit of money and prizes, since 1981. Kelly Ripa now hosts that show with her husband Mark Consuelos. In February, Seacrest announced he would leave the New York-based televised morning show “Live with Kelly and Ryan” after six years.

The show tapes in Southern California, where Seacrest also hosts a popular nationally syndicated morning drivetime radio show. He also said he was looking to learn as much as possible from Sajak during the transition period. “I can’t wait to continue the tradition of spinning the wheel and working alongside the great Vanna White,” Seacrest’s statement said. Both White and Sajak have been on the show since the early 1980s. Seacrest in his statement also praised Vanna White, another mainstay of “Wheel of Fortune,” and signaled she would remain on the show after Sajak’s retirement. “I can say, along with the rest of America, that it’s been a privilege and pure joy to watch Pat and Vanna on our television screens for an unprecedented 40 years, making us smile every night and feel right at home with them.” “I’m truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” Seacrest said in a statement.

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