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Shows that Game Show Network should get.
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'HSquares2003\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 11:21 PM\'] If they are gonna screw up a new acquistion like they did with H2(marshall version), they should not acquire anything new for awhile. My .03 cents worth. [/quote]
The only sense I can make out of this statement is that given the choice between 150 episodes of a rare treasure that no one had seen in decades and ZERO episodes of a rare treasure than no one had seen in decades, you would prefer zero. Interesting.
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 10:23 PM\'] Shouldn't the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour be in the Goodson-Todman package that GSN has now? Or is it seperate like TPIR? [/quote]
There is a problem with the cross-ownership with Orion and Goodson-Todman. Some have speculated that Rayburn requested them not to be rerun, but I have heard recent accounts disputing that.
inturnaround:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 10:51 PM\'] [quote name=\'Pyramid80\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 10:23 PM\'] Shouldn't the Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour be in the Goodson-Todman package that GSN has now? Or is it seperate like TPIR? [/quote]
There is a problem with the cross-ownership with Orion and Goodson-Todman. Some have speculated that Rayburn requested them not to be rerun, but I have heard recent accounts disputing that. [/quote]
Yeah, I would think that if there were to be money to be made in a property long since written off, they would do it in a heartbeat. A request by Gene Rayburn 20 years ago would probably be ignored.
No, I think it's a rights issue, plain and simple (or as plain and simple as rights issues can be). A lot of things with Orion (God bless its bankrupt little soul) had the same problem.
NickintheATL:
Need I remind everyone again of what actually happed to Orion, they went bankrupt and was bought out by MGM, which used to be owned by Ted Turner, then broke off before Turner's holdings got absorbed by Time/Warner. MGM has all of Orion's holdings at this point.
They did go bankrupt, but MGM would be the people who GSN would talk to about the HS side of the rights nowadays.
and Zach, don't just repeat my post.... :-P
tommycharles:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 10:27 PM\'] [quote name=\'HSquares2003\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 11:21 PM\'] If they are gonna screw up a new acquistion like they did with H2(marshall version), they should not acquire anything new for awhile. My .03 cents worth. [/quote]
The only sense I can make out of this statement is that given the choice between 150 episodes of a rare treasure that no one had seen in decades and ZERO episodes of a rare treasure than no one had seen in decades, you would prefer zero. Interesting. [/quote]
I think he's trying to say that if they're going to spend money on something and let it fly down the toilet, they would be better to save the money. Or I could be wrong and that made no sense whatsoever.
It would be something new here if someone were to think of the network, anyway. As much as some of us bash the GSN execs, I defy any of you to make a higher ratings/more profitable network relying on the relentless string of obscure (to anyone that's not a member here) titles that you seem to want.
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