The Game Show Forum > Game Show Channels & Networks

Now that GSN is setting in the West...

(1/3) > >>

TimK2003:
If in the next few years, another party takes a shot at creating a classic game show network, does anyone know this early in the game if Sony will be willing to sell, lease, etc... any or all of the game show properties it has aquired over the years?  

Or might it try to keep the shows permanently in the vault with no chance at seeing the light of day again, charge an insane sum for their usage, or create some other non-game-show-friendly diabolical plan to ruin any other networks chance to create a true classic game show network.

If I am not mistaken, Sony does own most or all of the the Barris shows, most of the Stewart shows, and most of the Barry and Enright shows, not to mention Wheel, J!, and the current incarnation of Squares.

That would only leave nearly all of the Goodson-Todman shows and a handful of other lesser game show packagers/syndicators that right now could be aquired without Sony's approval.  Would these non-Sony properties be enough to start up and maintain a new game show network down the road?  Discuss.

Jimmy Owen:
What's being forgotten is even after the revamping, the network will still be showing game shows, this isn't a Nashville Network to Spike TV-type transformation.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 06:42 PM\'] Would these non-Sony properties be enough to start up and maintain a new game show network down the road?  Discuss. [/quote]
 I certainly think so. There was an attempt at a Games Channel c. 1992 or 1993 which would have included interactive stuff like seen on FAM in the mid 90s, plus LMAD, Name that Tune(Lange), Split Second(Hall), Crosswits(Sparks), and Face the Music which were seen on FAM in the same time frame, but it never got off the ground.

The GT shows plus stuff like LMAD, PYL, WLOD, Greed, Marshall HS, and maybe picking up Grundy would certainly be enough to start another game show channel. If they could even do a few lower budget traditional games like Lingo is, even better for them. Won't happen for a few years as we've realistically stated earlier, but still a nice thought.

Jimmy Owen:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 07:48 PM\']
I certainly think so. There was an attempt at a Games Channel c. 1992 or 1993 which would have included interactive stuff like seen on FAM in the mid 90s, plus LMAD, Name that Tune(Lange), Split Second(Hall), Crosswits(Sparks), and Face the Music which were seen on FAM in the same time frame, but it never got off the ground.

 [/quote]
 In a sense, it did get off the ground.  I figured the FAM block was an on-air lab to test the viability of such a channel.  One thing that was up for grabs was the Goodson library, it seemed the FAM effort was abandoned when Goodson went with GSN.

itiparanoid13:
they COULD, but the keyword there is COULD.  I wish they would, but the chances of setting up another Game Show Network type thing doesnt seem very likely to me.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page