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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: GSFan on November 28, 2006, 07:38:37 AM
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I realize that I am speaking about a TV show that is, at its youngest, almost 40 years old. However, why did GSN remove the word "Live" from all the WML? broadcasts?
Happy Holidays
David
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Since I don't have GSN any more, I can't tell, but if they're in the 60s, not all the shows were live. They would do a live show and then tape another right after it, so they were in the studio only every other week. (IGAS did the same thing).
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It's also possible that the kinescopes we have now were used by some stations to air the show on a delayed basis, and as such could not be classified as live. Back then, the stations (and society in general) made a big deal about being truthful. ;)
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I think it's mostly what DrBear is saying, though. They're definitely in the sixties now, and the show was only live if Johnny Olson said it was live. I don't think GSN itself is editing the shows in any way except to remove commercials.
Here's an insanely detailed WML? site where you can find out specifically whether a given show from the sixties was live or not, as well as excruciatingly specific information about every segment on most episodes:
http://www.tv.com/what-s-my-line/show/5501/summary.html (http://\"http://www.tv.com/what-s-my-line/show/5501/summary.html\")
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Another thing to listen for: in the closing credits Johnny will say "this program has been pre-recorded." I think he even did that on the one this past week that ran just before the 1964 Match Game.
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I do remember that the last time the 1960's shows were cycled on GSN, most of them said "Live from New York. On this run, the word "live" is clearly edited out.