Game Show "Channels" On Roku,...Etc... Thread.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

Freevee is just merging into Prime Video.  All of the content will carry over (unless it outright expires by then).  A lot of 'Freevee' titles are already available as 'Free With Ads' through the Prime Video app - and honestly, 'freevee' as a brand never caught on anyway so merging the content into Prime and basically serving as a perpetual 'free preview' of Prime Video' works on a lot of levels.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

47 episodes of Match Game 77 are on Peacock.

[tpirfan28]

47 episodes of Match Game 77 are on Peacock.

That's.....random.  ABC has the return, this was a CBS show, not a lot of Fremantle links to NBC.  Huh.

Found in my "you may also be interested in" from Match Game was the entire run of George Gray Weakest Link.

[snowpeck]

47 episodes of Match Game 77 are on Peacock.

There's also a bunch of MG77 on Tubi. Roku Channel, meanwhile, has a bunch of MG75 and the first couple weeks of MG76. They're labeled incredibly wrong though, with a handful being listed from each year the show was on.

[bwood]

Just noticed this morning that the PLEX app runs the OTA stream of Game Show Central that affiliates use and matches up with their online schedule on the GSC site.
 Not sure what other FAST apps do air it that way, but I do know that Pluto does not.
We do not have a local affiliate that offers Game Show Central but recently found one when we traveled.

[chargeradiocom]

Just noticed this morning that the PLEX app runs the OTA stream of Game Show Central that affiliates use and matches up with their online schedule on the GSC site.
 Not sure what other FAST apps do air it that way, but I do know that Pluto does not.
We do not have a local affiliate that offers Game Show Central but recently found one when we traveled.

FYI, Plex isn’t running the OTA feed. It’s a different schedule entirely. The OTA feed doesn’t run the big name/syndie shows (Harvey Feud, 25 Words or Less, Deal or No Deal). Also, the OTA feed runs a few shows that don’t stream on GSC (GSN’s versions of Newlywed Game and The Chase, Hey Yahoo, Caroline & Friends, probably a few others. At least that’s accurate as of right now).

The Game Show Central feed that Plex runs is the same feed that pretty much all the FASTs run, except Pluto for some reason. Pluto has always run its own GSC schedule as far as I’m aware.

Here’s the OTA schedule:
https://www.ontvtonight.com/guide/listings/channel/10541085988/wpxm-game-show-central.htm

Hope this clarifies!

[bwood]

Holy cow. That's crazy that there are at least 3 different "feeds"/versions for the channel. Very confusing.
I just assumed it was the OTA feed since it matched up to the website Schedule. I guess that site does show apps and doesn't mention OTA affiliates. That's nuts!
I never watched it enough on vacation to notice if the off network shows were on it or not. I swear FF was on it one day but that could have been on 10 other channels. Thanks for the clarification. I had no idea.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

As part of their deal to air next-day episodes of Wheel and J! (as well as last season's J!, typically syndicated as 'Daytime Jeopardy'), they're ALSO adding five seasons of J! and seven seasons of Wheel(listed as complete) of the two shows.

Wheel will get Seasons 16-18 (1998-01), as well as 28 (2010-11), and 37-39 (2019 through 2022 - including the fifteen shows Vanna hosted)

J! will get seasons Seasons 20-21 (2003-05, including Ken AND the Ultimate Tournament of Champions), season 27 (also 2010-11), and seasons 34/35 (2017-19)

Source: The additions page on the Hulu Press site.

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For Wheel - 1998-01 means the Mr. Rogers episode, two absolutely sublime Hawaii trips, the ceremonial 3000th show, the first Retro Week, the absolutely bonkers 2000 Halloween show (Richard Simmons, Tara Lipinski, and Alex Trebek play in costume/character), and delightful 2000 Christmas ep (a two and a half minute credit roll featuring nearly every single show staffer on camera) - plus Charlie O's final shows and the 2010-11 announcer auditions (at least the ones not overdubbed on the master) in s27, while the last set as mentioned includes Vanna's stint as host and the final pre-COVID and first two post-COVID seasons.

For J! - 2003-05 covers Ken's stint as superchamp and the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, 2010-11 has the IBM/Watson challenge, while the last stint has James Holzhauer's run, the 2019 All Star Games, and more.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Looks like it's through the Freevee app, so no charge.

Not for long. Amazon intends to shut down Freevee by the end of the year

I wonder if it has anything to do with a certain dystopian movie dropping in November whose use of the name predates it by 40 years.

[chad1m]

Buzzr and The Barker Era announced today that 100 fresh episodes of The Price Is Right, "in HD", as they are promoting (?), will begin airing Monday, September 29. One will air at 5 PM ET on Buzzr, and one at 7 PM on The Barker Era channel. The episodes span from 7001D to 7222D, originally airing October 24, 1988 to April 4, 1989, another timeline jump for this series.

[Dbacksfan12]

If I remember correctly, that's a set of episodes that never aired on GSN.  A nice surprise!

[BrandonFG]

If I remember correctly, that's a set of episodes that never aired on GSN.  A nice surprise!

I think you're right. Off the top of my head, there's a gap where WinTV skipped over anything from about 1987-91.

Give or take a year, this was when I started being aware of TPiR as it was something my great-grandmother would watch while babysitting me. So this is gonna be fun for me.

[Blanquepage]

If I remember correctly, that's a set of episodes that never aired on GSN.  A nice surprise!

I believe the only seasons they aired with Bob's grey hair were 1987-88 and 1991-1992.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

GSN never aired 1987-88 regularly or any other 80s grey hair show aside from most of season 20 plus a couple of spot episodes during Club AM/Prime Games when they first started teasing adding TPiR and later on during WinTV.

For anyone curious, GSN aired in regular run:
*Somewhere around 190 (+/- a couple) half hour Barker shows from the first three seasons. (None from S4 or the occasional one-off thereafter).
*Approximately 1/6 of the episodes from November 1975 through June 5, 1978 (had GSN not changed the way they aired TPiR in '98 when they got the Goodson shows back, it's VERY likely Finish Line would have aired on GSN in May '98)
*Approximately 1/4 of the episodes from September 1979 through June 1982 (in general, early 80s shows featured fewer furs and other issues)
*Basically all of September 1982 through February 9, 1984.
*September 1986 - February 1987
*September 1991 - April 23, 1992.

They've also aired a couple dozen misc. eps outside of that run, including but not limited to: one Spring 1979 show in WinTV (the only s7 ep they ever ran) at least one episode from April 1987 they hadn't gotten to yet, the season 14 Premiere in WinTV, the S16 finale with test Chyron credits (only lasted 1 ep) before launch, the season 18 premiere (again WinTV), several Christmas shows (1984/1990) in marathons, and at least a few 70s/early 80s episodes in WinTV from the time period they aired in the 1996-98 rotations (1975-78; 79-82) that didn't actually air normally the first go-around.

For comparison and folks not keeping score at home, the streaming offerings have included
100 shows from September 1972-January 1974 (including several episodes GSN skipped, while skipping several they aired even when no furs present)
and the vast majority of September 1982 through January 9, 1986, though streaming here HAS skipped several shows GSN ran [and aired at least a couple they'd skipped due to tape issues])

(also a note for the folks at home, the above is not an entirely comprehensive list of airs and skips nor is it intended to be to the episode.  If they randomly aired a show from 1988 in WinTV I didn't account for, it's fine)

[Ian Wallis]

Very good summary, Chelsea.

When Price is Right joined GSN's regular schedule in Dec 1996, they aired half-hour episodes during the day and hour-long just before primetime.  The hour-long episodes went as Chelsea described like this:

Monday - 1975 (starting with the first hour-long show)
Tuesday - 1979-80
Wednesday - 1982-83
Thursday - 1986-87
Friday - 1991-92

They did this for quite a while but eventually it became mostly just 1983 episodes (probably in April 1998).