[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 18 2005, 02:25 PM\'] Seems Adlink would be happy to have all the cable stations it could, but if the networks have to make some sort of arrangement with them to be carried, it's likely GSN no longer has such an arrangement..
...This sure gives the impression that the GSN people have a hard time playing well with others.
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Something to ponder, though...It wasn't just GSN that disappeared. OLN and TV Guide Channel [I finally remembered it] disappeared at the same time. If it were solely a direct effect of GSN not being able to come to terms with Adlink, why the disappearance of the other two?
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Mar 18 2005, 01:11 PM\']Something to ponder, though...It wasn't just GSN that disappeared. OLN and TV Guide Channel [I finally remembered it] disappeared at the same time. If it were solely a direct effect of GSN not being able to come to terms with Adlink, why the disappearance of the other two?
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My guess is that Adlink reevaluated its channel offerings, and I think your Explanation 1 is correct. I'm not even sure how many Los Angeles-area cable systems were even able to insert local ads into GSN, since it's a digital channel on most systems (I know the Adelphia system here in the Valley is getting GSN straight off what used to be AT&T's HITS service). Same deal with OLN. And the TV Guide Channel isn't even carried on a surprising number of cable systems in the area (about half the Comcast systems don't have it, if the cable conversion chart in the front of the Comcast edition of TV Guide is to be believed).