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Yet ANOTHER GSN change
whampyl03:
--- Quote ---\"GSN will telescope Black and White Overnight to one hour (two shows) beginning Nov. 3 and expand paid programming to 5-6 a.m. (EDT)\"
--- End quote ---
I have two choice words that can sum up exactly how I feel about this move...
OH (--BLEEP--)!
I guess I'll be hitting the haystack a bit earlyer come Nov.
Don Howard:
Quite frankly, dear ones, I'm surprised Black & White Overnight has lasted this long. And at least we've still got the one hour.
But this news is still a pisser.
dheine1971:
Game Show Network is going to expand its informercials to 4 hours a day from 3 hours a day starting in November? That could or could not be worse!
When GSN first carried informercials (in the middle of the Goodson-Todman game show-less DARK PERIOD) in January 1998 the informercials were 5-6 hours a day, later they were reduced to 3-4 hours a day.
Were airing informercials on GSN to raise money to get the rights to the Goodson-Todman game show library back? I bet this could be the same when the informercials become 4 hours a day to: 1) Raise money to get Sony owned game shows leased for more than 1 season of each show - maybe even bring back in 2004 \"Joker's Wild\" and \"Tic Tac Dough\", 2) Raise money to get music licences cleared on Sony's owned Chuck Barris game shows (\"Dating Game\", \"Gong Show\", and \"Treasure Hunt\") and maybe get the rights to \"Name That Tune\", 3) Raise money to keep the Goodson-Todman library, 4) Raise money to get rights to add more game shows to its library like NBC's \"Concentration\" and \"Classic Concentration\" or even get the entire \"The Price is Right\" library back, 5) Raise money in case the 2 hour 3 day a weekend video games block flops and vanishes from GSN after at least 1 month, 6) Anything else you can think of if possible?
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'dheine1971\' date=\'Sep 18 2003, 02:24 PM\'] Game Show Network is going to expand its informercials to 4 hours a day from 3 hours a day starting in November? That could or could not be worse!
When GSN first carried informercials (in the middle of the Goodson-Todman game show-less DARK PERIOD) in January 1998 the informercials were 5-6 hours a day, later they were reduced to 3-4 hours a day.
Were airing informercials on GSN to raise money to get the rights to the Goodson-Todman game show library back? I bet this could be the same when the informercials become 4 hours a day to: 1) Raise money to get Sony owned game shows leased for more than 1 season of each show - maybe even bring back in 2004 "Joker's Wild" and "Tic Tac Dough", 2) Raise money to get music licences cleared on Sony's owned Chuck Barris game shows ("Dating Game", "Gong Show", and "Treasure Hunt") and maybe get the rights to "Name That Tune", 3) Raise money to keep the Goodson-Todman library, 4) Raise money to get rights to add more game shows to its library like NBC's "Concentration" and "Classic Concentration" or even get the entire "The Price is Right" library back, 5) Raise money in case the 2 hour 3 day a weekend video games block flops and vanishes from GSN after at least 1 month, 6) Anything else you can think of if possible? [/quote]
7)Enough money to pay you to quit posting inane crap.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'dheine1971\' date=\'Sep 18 2003, 12:24 PM\'] maybe even bring back in 2004 "Joker's Wild" and "Tic Tac Dough", [/quote]
Jesus, would you people STOP WITH THIS? There are people from GSN who read this board, y'all have made it eminently clear you want these shows back, and running it into the ground is getting annoying.
How about:
7) Some beancounter somewhere figured out that the number of viewers they would lost by dropping the B/W block to two hours was well worth the enhanced revenue they would take in by running informercials in that slot.
After all, with all of the whining I have seen, I don't think I've seen a single soul suggest an out and out boycott, so it seems GSN has lost nothing-nada-zero-not a sausage from doing this.
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