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Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, 1934 in Jackson, Tennessee) is a disc jockey and television game show host.

Martindale started his career as a disc jockey at age 17 at WPLI in Jackson, earning $25 a week. He was hired away by WTJS for double the salary by Jackson's only other station, WDXI. He next hosted mornings at WHBQ in Memphis while a college student at Memphis State College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957. In 1959, he became morning man at KHJ in Los Angeles, California, moving a year later to the morning show at KRLA and finally to KFWB in 1962. He also had lengthy stays at KKGO/KJQI and Gene Autry's KMPC.

Martindale's first break into television was at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, as the host of Mars Patrol, a science-fiction themed children's television program. It was at his tenure with WHBQ that Martindale became the host of the TV show Dance Party where his close friend Elvis Presley stopped in to make a public appearance. Following Presley's sudden death in 1977, Martindale aired a nationwide tribute radio special in his honor. Martindale is also a longtime friend of Memphis TV personality Lance Russell.
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