SHORT TAKES : ‘No Hard Feelings’--Sajak Aide

Dan Miller, who spent the past 15 months as Pat Sajak’s announcer and late-night sidekick, says the canceled talk show just never found its identity.

“We tried to play it safe,” said Miller, who was an anchorman at WSMV in Nashville when Sajak was a weatherman at the station from 1972 to 1975.

“It never found its own identity,” Miller said this week. “We were trying to take ourselves too seriously.”

There’s no hard feelings toward Sajak, said Miller. “I’m grateful to Pat. It was a nice opportunity, a nice challenge,” he said.

Miller, once an anchorman for KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, said he doesn’t know where his career will take him next.