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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Oct 2 2003, 09:30 AM\'] .  Tying this to game shows, because the nets do not own them (the old ones anyway) there is no incentive to keep property that they can't exploit [/quote]
 Of course, NBC does own the format rights to Twenty One, Tic Tac Dough, Dough Re Mi(I think), and of course, CONCENTRATION!. Whether NBC saved the old tapes of these shows is another story entirely. Do CBS and ABC own any game show format rights? I don't think they do, but maybe someone knows of one or two lesser-known formats they might own.

The Ol' Guy:
I'm sure I read CBS bought What's My Line from G-T back in 1958. The 1969 home game by Whitman claims a CBS copyright. G-T may have also sold all or part of I've Got A Secret.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Oct 2 2003, 09:30 AM\']I think the fact that ABC produced and owned most of their soaps is a big factor in their survival, yet you don't see the '70's episodes on SoapNet (save the occasional \"Ryan's Hope,\") so it's as if they don't exist.  I would guess Procter and Gamble have all of their shows tucked away somewhere.  P&G's \"Another World\" is supposed to be rerun soon, but only the last few years of the run.  [/quote]
I had heard that Sony had licensed the P&G library for its proposed Soap City channel, but when they decided not to go ahead with it the rights reverted to P&G.

From all indications, P&G does have at least some kinescopes of earlier eps of their soaps--but it's hard to say if a contemporary audience would be willing to watch them, with the much slower pacing and the organ music on top of the fact that they're in black-and-white (not to mention any color episodes before P&G dumped the organ music on all of their shows in the mid-70s--they were the last daytime soap producers to hold on to live music cues).

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