Author Topic: Daytime/Syndie US Gameshows (Read 2467 times)

TravisP · « **on:** October 20, 2006, 03:46:41 PM »

We've got a boom of daytime formats over in the UK from 30th October as we got no more than SEVEN shows airing all before primetime of 7pm.

For those who are wondering, they are...

12.30 - BrainTeaser
2.00 - The Price is Right (30 minutes)
3.30 - Countdown
4.15 - Deal or No Deal
5.00 - The Price is Right (60 minute special)
5.15 - Weakest Link
6.00 - Sudo-Q
6.30 - In the Grid (Les Dennis new gig)

Given you guys had the CBS/NBC boom in the late 80's/early 90's. How many formats did the networks air on a single day before primetime?

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:05:15 PM »

[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'135137\' date=\'Oct 20 2006, 12:46 PM\']
Given you guys had the CBS/NBC boom in the late 80's/early 90's. How many formats did the networks air on a single day before primetime?
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Well, in the very early 80's, when Tattletales and Match Game were still on CBS, it would have been five there, six on NBC, and two on ABC, roughly. (All of those are ballpark numbers.) So, thirteen, give or take?

mmb5 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:13:24 PM »

Early 80s also had a few five-a-day-syndies: Family Feud, (nose hold) 3's a Crowd, To Tell the Truth, Match Game. Match Game was off by '79, but CBS' number is still right (just replace Match Game with Whew!)

1975 was probably the biggest single year, which each of the networks usually having six daytime games:

NBC-Celebrity Sweepstakes, Wheel, High Rollers, Squares, Jackpot, Blank Check
CBS-Joker's Wild, Gambit, Now You See It, Match Game, Price, Tattletales
ABC-Blankety Blanks, Password, Split Second, Pyramid, Let's Make a Deal, Newlywed Game
Syn (daily)-Truth or Consequences, To Tell the Truth

You also had Dealer's Choice and Concentration in a good part of the country on five-day-a-week syndication, LMAD/Squares on two-day-a-week, and Name That Tune, Match Game, Sweepstakes, Price is Right, Pyramid, Treasure Hunt, Masquerade Party and Jeopardy on once-a-week. And because of some stations really on the late end of the bicycling, Beat the Clock and What's My Line could still be seen in a handful of places.

--Mike

SRIV94 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:15:33 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'135140\' date=\'Oct 20 2006, 03:05 PM\']
[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'135137\' date=\'Oct 20 2006, 12:46 PM\']
Given you guys had the CBS/NBC boom in the late 80's/early 90's. How many formats did the networks air on a single day before primetime?
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Well, in the very early 80's, when Tattletales and Match Game were still on CBS, it would have been five there, six on NBC, and two on ABC, roughly. (All of those are ballpark numbers.) So, thirteen, give or take?
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MG had moved off of CBS and onto syndication by the fall of 1979, and TT wasn't on between 1978 and early 1982. But if we're adding daily syndicated shows into the mix (TJW, TTD, BULLSEYE, GONG reruns, the aforementioned MG, TTTT8x and I'm probably forgetting a few others) that adds a lot more to the till if we're using, say, 1981 as a base (of course, by then CBS had dumped most of its games save for TPiR in favor of sitcom reruns).

Doug

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:19:20 PM »

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ABC-Blankety Blanks, Password, Split Second, Pyramid, Let's Make a Deal, Newlywed Game

For a while in '75, ABC actually had seven games on at the same time; Money Maze was carried at 4 p.m.; and Big Showdown was on in place of Newlywed Game, which was on one of its brief hiatuses.

Those were the days...even if home VCRs were common back then, which network would you tape most often?

SRIV94 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:25:44 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'135144\' date=\'Oct 20 2006, 03:19 PM\']
For a while in '75, ABC actually had seven games on at the same time; Money Maze was carried at 4 p.m.; and Big Showdown was on in place of Newlywed Game, which was on one of its brief hiatuses.
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NBC also had seven for about two months in early 1979 with CS, ALL-STAR SECRETS, HR, WoF, J!, P+ and HSq. But CBS only had TPiR and MG79 in its arsenal (again, sitcom reruns), and ABC with the obvious two in FF and PYRAMID. Pretty fair amount of daily syndie shows as well at that point as well (TJW, TTD, GONG reruns, CROSS WITS, and I'm prolly forgetting a few others).

Doug

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2006, 04:42:38 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'135144\' date=\'Oct 20 2006, 04:19 PM\']Those were the days...even if home VCRs were common back then, which network would you tape most often?[/quote]
No brainer. If I have one of those old models that could only record one channel, I'd be on ABC for Password, Split Second and Pyramid, plus the lesser Cullen/Stewart effort. I wouldn't even mind all that much if the tape ran out and I couldn't get Deal or Newlywed Game, but I'd miss Money Maze.