In 2011, he was presented with a Daytime Emmy ® Lifetime Achievement Award. In a career spanning five decades, Pat has earned three Emmy ® Awards, a People’s Choice Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The top-ranked syndicated version made its debut in 1983, and in 2021, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune premiered in primetime on ABC. Pat Sajak has been the host of Wheel of Fortune since 1981, when the show aired on network daytime television.