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Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: barker5000 on December 15, 2007, 11:13:21 PM
What are the most watched game show broadcasts, when did they air, what game shows are they, and how many people tuned in to those most watched game show broadcasts?

Thanks,
barker5000
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: HYHYBT on December 16, 2007, 04:01:43 PM
Win, Lose, or Draw, 6-19-88, over 250 million viewers.
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: MikeK on December 16, 2007, 04:09:53 PM
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'172219\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 04:01 PM\']
Win, Lose, or Draw, 6-19-88, over 250 million viewers.
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Sorry.  June 19, 1988 was a Sunday.

Surely it was a Super Bowl broadcast.  It was a game shown on TV. :-)
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: clemon79 on December 16, 2007, 04:12:40 PM
How many times are we going to let this guy ask "please tell me everything about every game show EVAR"-type questions?
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: dzinkin on December 16, 2007, 05:13:08 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'172221\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 04:12 PM\']
How many times are we going to let this guy ask "please tell me everything about every game show EVAR"-type questions?
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FWIW, I let through about one out of every seven.
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: TLEberle on December 16, 2007, 05:20:32 PM
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'172222\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 02:13 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'172221\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 04:12 PM\']How many times are we going to let this guy ask "please tell me everything about every game show EVAR"-type questions?[/quote]FWIW, I let through about one out of every seven.[/quote]I submit that any 'turfing is too much.
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: dzinkin on December 16, 2007, 05:21:45 PM
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'172223\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 05:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'172222\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 02:13 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'172221\' date=\'Dec 16 2007, 04:12 PM\']How many times are we going to let this guy ask "please tell me everything about every game show EVAR"-type questions?[/quote]FWIW, I let through about one out of every seven.[/quote]I submit that any 'turfing is too much.
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I try to let through the ones that have a chance of starting a legitimate discussion.  If you saw the ones that didn't go through, you'd have a better idea of what I mean. ;-)
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: clemon79 on December 16, 2007, 05:27:08 PM
*sigh* Just another landmine, that's all he is.

Fortunately, the more of these that are permitted on the board, the less getting banned really matters.
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: HYHYBT on December 18, 2007, 12:52:30 AM
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Sorry. June 19, 1988 was a Sunday.
Intentional, part of making sure the joke was obvious enough.
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on December 18, 2007, 03:02:14 AM
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'172337\' date=\'Dec 18 2007, 12:52 AM\']
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Sorry. June 19, 1988 was a Sunday.
Intentional, part of making sure the joke was obvious enough.[/quote]
For some folks, no joke is obvious enough. Many moon ago (sic), I tweaked a less-than-clueful person on Usenet by saying that some show or another was due to premiere on September 31. Months and months later, people were still coming by and saying that they heard the show was premiering on 9/31, and what channel could they find it on?
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: clemon79 on December 18, 2007, 03:12:05 AM
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' post=\'172337\' date=\'Dec 17 2007, 09:52 PM\']
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Sorry. June 19, 1988 was a Sunday.
Intentional, part of making sure the joke was obvious enough.
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Actually, you gotta give a guy credit for this much attention to detail. I wouldn't have cared that much. :)
Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: Kevin Prather on December 18, 2007, 03:15:03 AM
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'172348\' date=\'Dec 18 2007, 12:02 AM\']
Many moon ago (sic), I tweaked a less-than-clueful person on Usenet by saying that some show or another was due to premiere on September 31. Months and months later, people were still coming by and saying that they heard the show was premiering on 9/31, and what channel could they find it on?
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Title: most watched game show broadcasts
Post by: Jimmy Owen on December 18, 2007, 07:58:49 AM
Had to be something from the 50's when there were only three channels and $64,000 Question, Twenty-One and Dotto kept people glued to the tube.  The scandals pretty much killed the genre among the public at large.