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GSN's reason for giving up Marshall HS
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'cac8383\' date=\'Oct 18 2003, 12:22 AM\'] Does Channel 99 mean anything? On Charter Communications. Please don't torture me with Mr. "You're Right!" [/quote]
My cable company is Charter. Here, 99 is Empty-V...er, MTV.
ObGameShows: Remote Control was da bomb, but I didn't mind Turn it Up!.
cweaver:
[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' date=\'Oct 9 2003, 06:47 AM\'] I think the 1980-81 syndicated season from Vegas might have had a better chance to catch on with younger viewers, but perhaps not that much better of a chance.
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The era immediately before the Vegas run would've been great. There were a lot of modern-day recognizable celebs in that bunch, like John Ritter.
I have always felt the shows burned out too quickly because there were so few and they were so heavily run in the first place. "Match Game" didn't tire out so quickly because there are several thousand shows in that package IIRC, as opposed to the measly 130 or so in the Marshall Squares package.
trainman:
[quote name=\'cac8383\' date=\'Oct 17 2003, 10:22 PM\'] Does Channel 99 mean anything? [/quote]
To the average viewer, that's not a very low channel number, but to the technicians at a cable system, it is. In terms of the frequency in megahertz at which they're sent through the cable, cable channels 95 through 99 are between channel 6 and, um, channel 14. (In cable TV frequencies, channels 14 through 22 are below channels 7 through 13. Yes, it's very bizarre.)
Actually, here's a chart that shows this: http://www.jneuhaus.com/fccindex/cablech.html
In practice, few cable systems choose to use channels 95 through 97 due to interference from FM radio broadcasts.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---I have always felt the shows burned out too quickly because there were so few and they were so heavily run in the first place. "Match Game" didn't tire out so quickly because there are several thousand shows in that package IIRC, as opposed to the measly 130 or so in the Marshall Squares package.
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I've wondered the same thing. When you look at the "classic" shows on GSN's schedule, the ONLY shows that they run the whole libraries of are "Match Game" and "Family Feud". Every other show they only run a limited portion of - over and over. It's annoying - especially since some of those same shows were easy access for GSN years ago. In other words, they were able to run just about any season they wanted, and are now seemingly stuck with one.
dheine1971:
What about the other Goodson-Todman shows airing on GSN currently - "Card Sharks", "Blockbusters", "What's my Line", "To Tell The Truth", "I've Got a Secret", and "Password"?
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