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MSTieScott

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Buzzr Q2 2025
« on: May 22, 2025, 03:10:37 PM »
Buzzr continues to push "National Game Show Day" by making an event out of June. The network also will break with recent tradition by NOT using the weekend to repeat weekday programming.

Of note is that more "new" episodes of Classic Concentration will return starting June 1. An ad also promotes Eubanks Card Sharks, Dawson Family Feud, and Password Plus; additionally, I see one episode of Shafer Match Game per day and some later-Pax-era Supermarket Sweeps. I don't know whether any of those are also new to Buzzr. (It's easy to check Classic Concentration -- the fan wiki doesn't have episode information, so the episodes must not have aired since 1991.)

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2025, 06:14:06 PM »
The majority of the weekday schedule prior to Midnight ET will be new to GSN.  .
Dawson Feud is all new from Fall 1983 (ABC run) in both airings similar to P+ for the first couple weeks, with the late-prime airings roughly a month ahead of mornings. Three shows in the morning 5 days/week, two shows in late prime 7 days/week.

Password Plus (Sept 1981) - the late-primetime airings are starting roughly a month ahead of the early morning ones so both will be new for at least two weeks. 7 days per week.

Eventually mornings will catch where late-Prime started for both of these shows so curious what happens there in the second half of the month.

Super Password (June 1987) - picks up exactly where left off. Seven days per week.

Eubanks CS (very last taped shows of 1987 into 1988). 5 days per week. On weekends they appear to be showing random episodes from later in 1988-89, some of which they've run before and some of which haven't been run in quite some time. Only one '88 show on Sundays due to paid programming availability.

Match Game (Rayburn-era syndicated) - running the third season. Six days per week due to paid program placement on Saturdays.

Match Game PM (yes really - they've aired the show wildly out of order and there's a chunk of eps from the end of S1 and start of S2 they've never run). 7 days/week.

The more-interesting-to-me Match Game 90 (roughly mid-run) is also new, also 7 days/week.

Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.

These Supermarket Sweep episodes have actually aired at least one time before (they've run 40 of the first 42 shows of that season, and the s7 airings start in that range). Season 7 runs M-F.  However, weekends show a continuation of the new to Buzzr season 8 (PAX final year) eps they've been slowly dripping in the past couple of months.

The overnight series (To Tell the Truth (both hours), Body Language, Blockbusters, Concentration 70s, and syndie What's My Line) and Price is Right have all been seen before (or at least Price has definitely been seen on the Barker Era channel).  The last day that schedule data's up for (overnight 6/8 into 6/9) they're running the last two Blockbusters eps they ran before resetting (311 & 312), so if they wanted to cycle in new eps there, there's a definite opportunity without skipping.  (not getting my hopes up)

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2025, 07:13:46 PM »
Also saw and ad for Lost and Found, starting 6/1 at 10:30AM.

Do they not have a lot of 1986 PYL airable?  The 5PM mini-marathon got into maybe February/March 1986 (after Across-The-Board debut), then looped back to late 1984 or early 85.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2025, 08:13:23 AM »
Also saw and ad for Lost and Found, starting 6/1 at 10:30AM.

Do they not have a lot of 1986 PYL airable?  The 5PM mini-marathon got into maybe February/March 1986 (after Across-The-Board debut), then looped back to late 1984 or early 85.
Buzzr went up to 5/30/86 for PYL, 1 episode later than GSN. That episode has a glitch at the end which makes me think it's why GSN didn't air it. There has been talk that Buzzr may be getting around to converting the rest of the shows and PYL DOES show up in the latest promo for Lost & Found (which now says it will take place for the entire month), but we'll see. 

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2025, 04:29:14 PM »
The majority of the weekday schedule prior to Midnight ET will be new...
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2025, 06:23:25 PM »
Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.
The end is near, correct?  Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?


*=ETA:  If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2025, 06:26:44 PM »
Classic Concentration is labeled '90' in Buzzr's metadata but picks up from where they left off in May 1991. 7 days/week.
The end is near, correct?  Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety?

Double Dare is one

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2025, 06:39:44 PM »
Trebek DD was only ~5 months. But did they get to it all? I thought even GSN missed some in the past.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2025, 08:20:11 PM »
Trebek DD was only ~5 months. But did they get to it all? I thought even GSN missed some in the past.

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Buzzr didn't even get close; they only made it to January 21, 1977. GSN skipped over a fair amount too; here's a really comprehensive episode guide that lists what aired when.

https://erthreetrading.miraheze.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(CBS):_Episode_Guide

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2025, 09:49:03 PM »
[The end is near, correct?  Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?

*=ETA:  If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.

Not sure about certain eps from 1973-74 but I know they’ve ran and streamed basically all of CBS Match Game from 1975-onwards. This new stunt should also clear the last chunk of PM they haven’t run.

They’ve run everything they have for Sale . Entire PM run (220) plus the extant 9 months of daytime show. 

Lmad 80s they’ve run seemingly all they have (roughly 300 eps of 340) - there’s around thirty consecutive shows plus spot eps that they jumped over but seems to be an issue of extancy.

Does anyone know if they finished Talk About.

PYL they’re getting close, just ~sixty eps from the end. It’s closest of the bunch of incomplete shows.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2025, 10:13:39 PM »
[The end is near, correct?  Are there any series that lasted longer than a year that BUZZR has ran in its entirety*?

*=ETA:  If they missed a couple of episodes due to damaged tapes or words deemed inappropriate, NBD.

Not sure about certain eps from 1973-74 but I know they’ve ran and streamed basically all of CBS Match Game from 1975-onwards. This new stunt should also clear the last chunk of PM they haven’t run.

Does anyone know if they finished Talk About.
Aside from skips due to content deemed inappropriate, all of the CBS run of Match Game has aired. All they have left in that regard in general is the aforementioned PM chunk and the third syndicated season, both of which they'll be hacking away at during this stunt.

There's still a chunk from the second season of Talk About they never got to.

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2025, 11:17:06 PM »

PYL they’re getting close, just ~sixty eps from the end. It’s closest of the bunch of incomplete shows.

Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2025, 11:26:33 PM »
Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!

Exactly 60 left on the back end - plus almost all of the first 99 shows on the front side (outside of a couple of episodes in marathons the earliest show they've run 'normally' is #100)

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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2025, 09:38:45 AM »
FWIW, GameTV's lease of Blockbusters started with episode 100.  Maybe most of the earlier ones haven't been converted(?)
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Re: Buzzr Q2 2025
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2025, 09:43:41 AM »
Interestingly enough, BUZZR seems blocked on Blockbusters not going beyond #312. And I think that's also 60 episodes left too, no?
Would be nice to see the rest of those in clean condition!

Exactly 60 left on the back end - plus almost all of the first 99 shows on the front side (outside of a couple of episodes in marathons the earliest show they've run 'normally' is #100)

Did GSN *ever* run the Blockbuster episodes that Buzzr didn't?  Because I recorded an awful lot of the shows when they were on GSN and I was on a completeness kick.
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