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On July 19, a new Match Game set was built by CBS, changed from the original bright orange to a new set with blue and white colors, as well as revamping the logo from the curved letters to a straight-line lettering it would use for the rest of the run ( this logo also forms the base of the 2012 English-language Canadian revival version's logo ).

This was mainly for convenience ; with a new Match Game set and sign, a whole new sign no longer had to be built each year as had been done previously.

An attachment designating the year was simply taken off the end of the revamped Match Game 78 sign and replaced with a new one numbered 79 on New Year's Eve 1978 ( aired January 2, 1979 ) becoming Match Game 79.

( An alternate attachment was used for Match Game PM.