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cmjb13:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 08:33 AM\'] I've come to the realization that the networks will again have regular daytime game shows.  The audience has changed.  There are no houswives anymore. [/quote]
 Will again or will never again?

Jimmy Owen:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 10:07 AM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 08:33 AM\'] I've come to the realization that the networks will again have regular daytime game shows.  The audience has changed.  There are no houswives anymore. [/quote]
Will again or will never again? [/quote]
 Never again.

cmjb13:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 08:33 AM\'] I've come to the realization that the networks will again have regular daytime game shows.  The audience has changed.  There are no houswives anymore. [/quote]
 As if women are the sole demographic for game shows?

Game shows weren't created and targeted for housewives, were they?

dickoon:
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 04:46 PM\'] Game shows weren't created and targeted for housewives, were they? [/quote]
 By no means all of them - but traditionally, to a large extent, many were, yes. Morning and daytime ones especially so. A quick Google for "game show" demographics reveals these facts from 1999 about differences between people who watch game shows and people who do not, which may be of interest.

I'm sure I can recall seeing a chart detailing the audience profiles of various TV channels in the UK; Challenge ?, our game show focused channel, was a remarkable outlier in terms of attracting a considerably lower proportion of ABC1 adult viewers (translation: "wealthiest, highest-disposable-income 50% of viewers") than almost all other channels, and proudly boasted in a past year that they had increased the number of housewives with children watching the channel by 90%.

Ian Wallis:

--- Quote ---As if women are the sole demographic for game shows?

Game shows weren't created and targeted for housewives, were they?
--- End quote ---


That's what I've found interesting.  I always wondered why certain game shows (especially in the '70s and early '80s) always had way more women contestants than men.  I figured it's probably because most of the people watching were women, so they went with more women contestants (couldn't women also root for men contestants?)

When you look at the biggest fans of the genre (i.e. - us), it's mostly men.

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