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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: game show guy on June 08, 2007, 03:28:03 PM
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Well, according to Cableworld (http://\"http://www.cable360.net/cableworld/departments/ratings/\"), GSN fell down to a embarrassing 0.3 rating with 186 HH watching.
GSN needs to realize that with them showing the same CRAP in primetime is VERY DUMB and getting SO OLD now its not even funny. The ratings they are getting are VERY SAD.
Here is what they show in primetime:
High Stakes Poker
World Series Of Blackjack
Weakest Link
Dog Eat Dog
Greed
Chain Reaction
A few others like Show Me The Money will be coming. But that is it.
At least the poker shows do good in ratings. but why is gsn ratings so low?? Because of the next line I have typed.
WHY does GSN like to rerun abuse the same Weakest Link, Dog Eat Dog, Chain Reaction, and other CRAP in PRIMETIME for the 10,000,000^8 AIRING!! NO WONDER NO ONE watches GSN at night anymore.
Look at This (http://\"http://www.cable360.net/cableworld/departments/ratings/16483.html\"). This was in July of 2003, and at that time they had a 0.4 rating with 209 HH watching. WHY?? MAYBE THIS IS WHY.
GSN had the Newlywed Game, Lingo, and MATCH GAME PM in Primetime then. That is WHY THE RATINGS were higher. And we had the SAME PRESIDENT THEN.
And it is not the Saturday night classics that made this rating low. ITS BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT OF GSN DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO PUT IN PRIMETIME. Instead, he put the SAME SHOWS!!
This is getting REAL SAD. I am about to CRY:(:( WHY can't GSN look at the bad ratings for once and CHANGE PRIMETIME!! I really think NO ONE at GSN looks at the ratings they are getting. That is why NO ONE WATCHES!!
I used to watch GSN in primetime all the time when they had Best of Family Feud (DAWSON) Match Game, 3's a crowd and other CLASSIC GAME SHOWS. But not anymore. Only on weekends I watch cause they have the Dawson feud marathons, and 50 great game shows.
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Can someone else explain it to him this time? I don't have the energy.
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Thad Dixon, is that you?
No wait, you only used one font size...
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^So, David, you think that weakest link, dog eat dog, greed, poker shows, and other 2000 game shows get BETTER ratings then Match Game and Family Feud??????
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154682\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 12:28 PM\']Well, according to Cableworld (http://\"http://www.cable360.net/cableworld/departments/ratings/\"), GSN fell down to a embarrassing 0.3 rating with 186 HH watching. [/quote] I'm guessing they're just fine with it. They certainly have the power to influence that if they so choose.
GSN needs to realize that with them showing the same CRAP in primetime is VERY DUMB and getting SO OLD now its not even funny. The ratings they are getting are VERY SAD.
But they're not. The ratings are tied to the amount of money that the channel earns for ad spots.
At least the poker shows do good in ratings. but why is gsn ratings so low?? Because of the next line I have typed.
WHY does GSN like to rerun abuse the same Weakest Link, Dog Eat Dog, Chain Reaction, and other CRAP in PRIMETIME for the 10,000,000^8 AIRING!! NO WONDER NO ONE watches GSN at night anymore.
No conspiracy needed, actually. Ratings are a direct result of the number of people who watch. Perceived quality of the programming has nothing to do with the ratings. (See: Deal or No Deal.) And they still get 189,000 people to watch. That's great numbers for a casual viewing channel with a very narrow niche.
I used to watch GSN in primetime all the time when they had Best of Family Feud (DAWSON) Match Game, 3's a crowd and other CLASSIC GAME SHOWS. But not anymore. Only on weekends I watch cause they have the Dawson feud marathons, and 50 great game shows.
Welcome to Economics 101.
1. In a free market, people are free to make choices.
2. The market determines the product, and a good product will stay on the market. A bad product will not.
You are free to make the choice to not watch. GSN is not programming to you, or to anyone. Their number one through ten interests are in making money. The strategy that they are employing is earning them money. It is that simple. Get that through your head.
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You know what GSG? You need to stop caring about this. It seems like your life mission is to fix GSN to exactly what you want. News flash....IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. Yes, we can criticize them to hell and back for programming choices, but we move on with our lives. Your problem...you don't, and you need to. I'm sure there is not one single damn GSN executive that even knows that this forum exists. Even if they did, they won't act upon us. They don't even act upon things brought up by members on their own damn forum.
Case in point...drop it. They're not gonna change a thing.
/pissed over all the Paris Hilton coverage today
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^But, why would GSN think that rerunning the same 60 or so eps. of Weakest Link, 40 or so eps of Greed, 20 or so eps of Dog Eat Dog make them ANY more money?? Heck, all of these shows have been on GSN for YEARS!!!!!!! I don't get it!
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^ Alright, I will just choose not to watch GSN in primetime unless they fix it up. I was trying to help GSN by putting shows like Family Feud and Match Game in primetime which are their highest rated daytime shows! Thats all.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154692\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:09 PM\']
^ Alright, I will just choose not to watch GSN in primetime unless they fix it up. I was trying to help GSN by putting shows like Family Feud and Match Game in primetime which are their highest rated daytime shows! Thats all.
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Could you learn to start using the quote function, please? Otherwise it becomes harder to understand who you're replying to.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'154690\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:05 PM\']
I'm sure there is not one single damn GSN executive that even knows that this forum exists. Even if they did, they won't act upon us.
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Actually, some GSN executives do know we exist, but obviously you're correct that they're not particularly inclined to program based on the whims of certain posters.
As I explained to GSG in email -- and as Messrs. Ottinger and Lemon have both noted in this forum in the past -- many of GSN's own executives and staffers are fans of the classics themselves. If a schedule of nothing but classics were the best choice for GSN business-wise, they'd do it in a heartbeat, and in fact would have no reason not to. It doesn't, so they don't.
/pissed over all the Paris Hilton coverage today
Two good moments IMO:
- the back-to-prison motorcade stopped just as -- as if to make the perfect commentary -- it was passing a circus.
- Shepard Smith called Greta Van Susteren "Geraldo."
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[quote name=\'TonicBH\' post=\'154694\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:15 PM\']
Could you learn to start using the quote function, please? Otherwise it becomes harder to understand who you're replying to.
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Thanks, BJ -- I meant to make the point in an earlier post and forgot.
Game Show Guy: when you're told that you're making errors in quoting, the correct response is not to stop quoting entirely. As I warned you when you were inserting five or six nested empty quotes in each of your posts, if you don't start quoting properly, your posts will be deleted.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154686\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 12:50 PM\']
^So, David, you think that weakest link, dog eat dog, greed, poker shows, and other 2000 game shows get BETTER ratings then Match Game and Family Feud??????
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What I THINK, if I were to express it here, would get me suspended. And trust me, you're not worth it.
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'154690\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:05 PM\']
You know what GSG? You need to stop caring about this.
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He claimed he already did (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=13025&view=findpost&p=154583\").
Guess that ship sailed, huh?
[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154691\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:06 PM\']
I don't get it!
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Boy, howdy.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'154695\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:18 PM\']
- Shepard Smith called Greta Van Susteren "Geraldo."
[/quote]Saw it (flipped from MSNBC to Fox moments earlier) and was definitely the highlight of the coverage.
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'154697\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:22 PM\']
He claimed he already did (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=13025&view=findpost&p=154583\").
Guess that ship sailed, huh?
[/quote]Less than 24 hours ago. Brilliant. Guess I can file that one as the definitive GSF Pyramid clue for "Things that Lasted Less Than Paris Hilton's First Jail Term".
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'154697\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154686\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 12:50 PM\']
You know what GSG? You need to stop caring about this.
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He claimed he already did (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=13025&view=findpost&p=154583\").
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That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:30 PM\']
That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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Jesus, someone just kill me now and END IT.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'154701\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:37 PM\']
[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:30 PM\']
That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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END IT.
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Good-Bye. I MAY NOT come back to these forums AGAIN because of the way ALL OF YOU treat me!!! This time I said I was happy GSN aired classics in primetime on Saturday and Sunday night. But, whatever, you guys don't give a darn. GOOD-BYE!
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154682\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:28 PM\']This is getting REAL SAD. I am about to CRY:(:([/quote]
I would pay good money to see a video of this end up on YouTube.
/good = not counterfeit and not more than 15 cents
//the password is "schadenfreude".
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I have to say--I've seen the light. GSguy has allowed me to add more variety to a certain list of Individual Game-show Nabobs Of Repute and Esteem that I've been collecting. And voila! The forum becomes much more readable, which can only improve our (Alexa) ratings.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:30 PM\']
That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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In the front of your house/apartment/whatever, probably towards the sound of cars you might hear sometimes, there is something that looks like a wall - but it has a circular knob-type object on it. Turn it, open the wall, and enjoy being outdoors. Maybe hop in one of those cars and take a road trip! Endless possibilities.
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FWIW, the February ratings were 0.4/231, so there may be some cause for concern. I have a feeling the May ratings will be more telling.
Is it just be or does TVOne's numbers seem weird? (.5/185)
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'154704\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:56 PM\']I would pay good money to see a video of this end up on YouTube.
/good = not counterfeit and not more than 15 cents[/quote]
Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that...
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:30 PM\']
That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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Serious question... how old are you?
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'154712\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:35 PM\']
[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:30 PM\']
That was the weekend schedule daytime. At least Primetime on the weekends makes me watch and puts a BIG smile on my face with 50 Great Game Shows- To Tell The Truth and others, and Family Feud (Dawson) marathons on Sunday nights!
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Serious question... how old are you?
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I am not going to tell you.
And I can watch TV when I want to watch it. YOU can not MAKE me NOT watch something that I want to watch.
Also, I do OTHER THINGS during the daytime. So, for me it is nice to come home after a long day and be able to watch Family Feud or something else.
Everyone has a different schedule in their life and that is mine.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154703\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:43 PM\']
Good-Bye. I MAY NOT come back to these forums AGAIN because of the way ALL OF YOU treat me!!! This time I said I was happy GSN aired classics in primetime on Saturday and Sunday night. But, whatever, you guys don't give a darn. GOOD-BYE!
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Lasted all of an hour and nine minutes, did you?
[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154713\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'154712\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:35 PM\']
Serious question... how old are you?
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I am not going to tell you.
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Okay, I will.
Joe: per his MySpace page (http://\"http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=47414163\"), GSG is 17 years old.
EDIT: Ever hear of screenshots, GSG? They can preserve evidence (http://\"http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9500/gsgmyspacepage1dl7.jpg\") even when you try to hide it by, for example, changing your age to 95.
And I can watch TV when I want to watch it. YOU can not MAKE me NOT watch something that I want to watch.
And YOU cannot MAKE others NOT disagree with you, and YOU cannot MAKE GSN NOT be a business and NOT need to make money. See how it works now?
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I think I need to change my name.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154703\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 01:43 PM\']
Good-Bye. I MAY NOT come back to these forums AGAIN
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At least he hedged his bets. The pool is temporarily on hold.
(He'll be back.)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'154723\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:37 PM\']
(He'll be back.) [/quote]
Of course he will - he's already posted a few times since that post was posted.
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154724\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 06:42 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'154723\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:37 PM\']
(He'll be back.) [/quote]
Of course he will - he's already posted a few times since that post was posted.
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I thought that, too, but those posts have a timestamp before he took his toys and went home. I seem to remember reading that he's on moderated status, so he may have typed that before his goodbye.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'154726\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 06:48 PM\']
I thought that, too, but those posts have a timestamp before he took his toys and went home. I seem to remember reading that he's on moderated status, so he may have typed that before his goodbye.
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Nope -- the time stamp reflects when he posted, not when I approve it. Let's say you post, then GSG posts, then Seth posts; you won't see GSG's right away, but when I approve it, it will appear between yours and Seth's.
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[quote name=\'game show guy\' post=\'154699\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:30 PM\']And I can watch TV when I want to watch it. YOU can not MAKE me NOT watch something that I want to watch.
Also, I do OTHER THINGS during the daytime. So, for me it is nice to come home after a long day and be able to watch Family Feud or something else.
Everyone has a different schedule in their life and that is mine.[/quote]Back when I was convinced that I would be an elementary school teacher, I worked for a semester with a class of 30 third graders. These were by no means gifted or genius kids, but they rode a regular-length school bus to get to school.
They understood the whole thing about choices and consequences, as they pertain to free will. ("You can't make me!" and so on.)
You haven't even gotten that far. Third graders understand how to argue and bring about conflict resolution. You do not. You are completely correcet that you can watch television whenever you like. GSN can also program whatever they want. If they want to have a primetime block of programs that they think can get people to watch, that's their business. How many times do people have to say that before you'll acknowledge it? Everyone has choices to make. It is not your place to impose your will on anyone.
There's no way to have a discussion with you, because you shut down, plug your fingers in your ears and sing nursery rhymes when someone disagrees with you, or tries to challenge you. Go on, back to your little snit and plow through life. There's a harsh world out there beyond the reach of the monitor's glow, and you'll be smacked down repeatedly because you haven't learned how to interact with people.
There's really no reason for you to be here except so that Chris Lemon can take all of our money when he finally hits the Skulk Pool Jackpot. You don't actually pay attention to the threads, you just post whatever sticks in your head. They already let you do that somewhere else, so why take a leak in our pool?
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'154716\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:06 PM\']EDIT: Ever hear of screenshots, GSG? They can preserve evidence (http://\"http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9500/gsgmyspacepage1dl7.jpg\") even when you try to hide it by, for example, changing your age to 95.[/quote]The only way this guy is earning $250,000 a year is if he pitched an idea to the networks about some guy who is living in a fantasyland where rationality doesn't exist and everyone just does what they want.
/Oh wait, we already have that in Olympia. At least the legislature takes half the year off... </politics>
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I was contemplating posting a typically-snarky* reply asking when the mods were going to open up a game show fan fiction subforum.
I mean, I was, but after futher consideration I'm not sure if comparing WML? or TTTT to some of the tripe that flies over on the GSN boards is a can of worms worth opening.
*Typical for me, anyway
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'154736\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 06:08 PM\']
These were by no means gifted or genius kids, but they rode a regular-length school bus to get to school.
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I have to say - this little snippet made me laugh right out loud. I love it.
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Edit: Zinkin made the point much more simpler than I did.
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It seems that Mr. Game Show Guy -- aka Alex something-or-other -- has decided that being age 95 (http://\"http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/5458/gsgmyspacepage1age95xh6.jpg\") is no fun, so he's decided to change to age 46 (http://\"http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4237/gsgmyspacepage1age46cv7.jpg\"). Unfortunately, he forgot to remove the reference to being in high school, and his birth year is still in the URL of his page (http://\"http://www.myspace.com/biga1989\") (which may show a fourth age by the time you read this).
Memo to Alex (and yes, I know you're reading this): even if your page eventually states that your name is José Jimenez and that you're a 39-year-old rocket scientist in Texas, we know that you were born in 1989, that you're a sophomore in high school (http://\"http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9500/gsgmyspacepage1dl7.jpg\") and that you live in Gahanna, Ohio. Give it up.
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[quote name=\'CarbonCpy\' post=\'154737\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 06:14 PM\'] I was contemplating posting a typically-snarky* reply asking when the mods were going to open up a game show fan fiction subforum.
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Wait, snarky? You mean there's not plans to add a game show fan fiction board here? NOW where am I supposed to put my torrid story of one 1963 What's My Line episode where John Charles Daly and Bennett Cerf showed each other how they REALLY felt?! :-P
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154754\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 10:33 PM\']
Wait, snarky? You mean there's not plans to add a game show fan fiction board here? NOW where am I supposed to put my torrid story of one 1963 What's My Line episode where John Charles Daly and Bennett Cerf showed each other how they REALLY felt?! :-P
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Bennett: So, Johnny-boy, is it bigger than a breadbox?
Daly: Yes, one down, nine inches to go...
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Joe Mello wrote:
Is it just be or does TVOne's numbers seem weird? (.5/185)
Doesn't that just imply that TVOne has a lower carriage rate than GSN?
Or am I not understanding cable ratings correctly?
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'154761\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 11:34 PM\']
Joe Mello wrote:
Is it just be or does TVOne's numbers seem weird? (.5/185)
Doesn't that just imply that TVOne has a lower carriage rate than GSN?
Or am I not understanding cable ratings correctly?
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TVOne probably reaches half as many viewers as GSN. I think the latter just hit 50 million homes. A .5 for TVOne is still good.
Wiki says 31 mil for TVOne, 63 mil for GSN, so literally half.
/yes, take Wiki with a grain of salt
//you get my point
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I just thought it was a statisical oddity that a network with an HH even lower than GSN would have a .5. Of course, there's HLN with 321K and a .3, so maybe it's just the nature of things.
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IIRC, the .3s and .4s are based on the channel's universe, instead of the typical universe used by the networks. That would explain why a channel (example: TVOne) with a lower HH count would have a higher rating than say one (example: GSN)with a slightly higher HH but with a lower rating.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'154762\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 11:45 PM\']
TVOne probably reaches half as many viewers as GSN. I think the latter just hit 50 million homes. A .5 for TVOne is still good.
Wiki says 31 mil for TVOne, 63 mil for GSN, so literally half.
/yes, take Wiki with a grain of salt
//you get my point
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That figure was taken from an old press release someone didn't cite. I found the newer figure from TV One's latest press release and changed the info accordingly. GSN, look out :)
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154754\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 10:33 PM\']
Wait, snarky? You mean there's not plans to add a game show fan fiction board here? NOW where am I supposed to put my torrid story of one 1963 What's My Line episode where John Charles Daly and Bennett Cerf showed each other how they REALLY felt?! :-P
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Do you really want me to tell you where you can put your stories? 'Cause I got a couple of parachute accounts handy and I don't mind switching over to them.
;)