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Video game programs coming to GSN
Shredder:
>If you don't want to watch the new shows, don't.>>
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't mind the new shows. Half of them are good, half are bad. At least in my opinion, 'RR', 'Whammy', 'Win Tuition', are good. 'Cram', 'Friend or Foe' and 'Funny Money' I could do without. For some reason, I just find Cram to annoying, while the host is good. Friend or Foe is good for an occasional tune in but not much else, and same goes for Funny Money and Lingo..
If GSN wants to expand, than I wish they'd at least treat their classics better. Get rid of the squished credits, get rid of the blue bar and speedups. Maby air un-edited classics all throughout the morning hours instead of the infomercials? Say, 12 AM starting with MatchGame, till about 12PM. After that, it would be time for the newer stuff in 'prime time'.
beatlefreak84:
--- Quote ---If GSN wants to expand, than I wish they'd at least treat their classics better. Get rid of the squished credits, get rid of the blue bar and speedups. Maby air un-edited classics all throughout the morning hours instead of the infomercials? Say, 12 AM starting with MatchGame, till about 12PM. After that, it would be time for the newer stuff in 'prime time'.
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I know that this particular topic has been discussed many times before, but I think I'll cover for a lot of people when I say that the infomercials aren't going anywhere. Just remember, though, at one point, there were six hours of infomercials on, and now there are only three. They obviously make money for GSN, so why get rid of them?
Also, why would you air the classics in the wee hours of the morning? Networks air things that they want their public to see; they won't air things to make tape hoarders and archivers happy! Honestly, I'm still surprised that they air B&W shows overnight; do many people other than tape hoarders watch them?
Let's face the facts (no pun intended): the classics are a dying breed. To GSN, airing those few hours of classics in the morning and the afternoon is enough to make us happy, even though those who have GSN that I know want more CLASSICS, not ORIGINALS. Also, when people ask me what's on GSN, they don't care about originals, they care about the classics.
It's quite a shame for GSN to move on like this, but people are in the business to make money. If something other than classics is making money, wouldn't you give it a whirl?
Anthony
urbanpreppie05:
I'm more or less intrigued. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out-it may be good, It may be bad. I'll try anything once.
inturnaround:
Here's a link to the Hollywood Reporter's coverage of this.
GSN Acquires Video Game Programs
Fedya:
Thad Dixon wrote:
--- Quote ---Just curious, but what does RNN stand for? I don't get that channel.
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\"Regional News Network\". It was originally WTZA, channel 62 in Kingston, NY. Around 1996, they became WRNN, with an allegedly all-news format but in reality mostly infomercials (something like 18-hrs a day on weekdays, and 24 hours on weekends). They now have a repeater station down in Nyack, for the purpose of serving the NYC market (this gets them on the NYC cable systems thanks to the must carry rules.
One of the local programs that got the shaft thanks to the change from WTZA to WRNN was \"Scholastic Match-Up\", a Quizbusters-like program with a simpler format (toss-ups only, 10 pts apiece, no penalty for incorrect answers). WTZA was in the middle of airing the quarterfinals (IIRC), and none of the rest of that year's matches were ever aired, as far as I know, nor was there a program in succeeding years.
Also, Brian Kenny, who can be seen on ESPNEWS, cut his teeth as a sports reporter at WTZA.
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