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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: dheine1971 on October 26, 2015, 08:15:43 AM
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...here's what I would say to him about improving the BUZZR digital subchannel network and its RERUN ABUSE:
"SIR, THIS IS FINAL! EITHER YOU STOP DOING RERUN ABUSE TO THE SHOWS ON BUZZR AND ADD NEW TO BUZZR EPISODES TO THE GAME SHOWS YOU AIR AND STOP AIRING SHOWS IN REVERSE ORDER OR ELSE!!!"
(Though he might reply "OR ELSE WHAT?"and/or maybe kick me in the pants out of the office or something like that. - Think of in the Blondie comic strip when Dagwood asks his boss for a raise in occassion and never gets one!)
Boy, I hope with this constant RERUN ABUSE BUZZR has Fremantle files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy or something like that and possibly have Fremantle make the BUZZR digital subchannel go out of business and cease for good after 6 months on the air in about 35%-40% of the country next month (November 2015, around Thanksgiving)! And if the BUZZR channel goes kaput, would that benefit GSN? But what are the odds of this?
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Oh boy....you again? Didn't you say you were never coming back?
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I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
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I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
THIS.
I get the rerun abuse is annoying, but as has been mentioned before, it could be they're still finding their footing until more affiliates come aboard.
Much as I hate this argument, turning the channel is always an option, as opposed to making such crazy rants.
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Of all the things going on in the world right now... (http://i.imgur.com/w8xJI1B.jpg)
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Of all the things going on in the world right now... (http://i.imgur.com/w8xJI1B.jpg)
Mind you, this is the guy (the OP, not you) who gets upset when his game shows get pre-empted for important news.
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Mind you, this is the guy (the OP, not you) who gets upset when his game shows get pre-empted for important news.
And the guy who makes me have to add "-abuse" whenever I search for Buzzr tidbits on Twitter because I'm tired of seeing him whine about it every damned day.
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I would tell him there's not enough commercials with Pop Tarts in their old packaging, dammit.
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Oh christ, this doofus? On the GSN Buzz boards back when those were around a few years ago he would never shut the hell up about swearing up and down that GSN was going to "cease to exist" because of "rerun abuse" and every month he would announce a new death knell for the network. Every month when he was proven wrong he'd just make the same post and just change the month when GSN would "cease for good". It got so tiring that the mods, who almost never banned anyone (and there were some really ridiculous users on that board), banned him because they were fed up with him.
One of his other favorite buzz phrases is "rally round the flag", whatever that means. I remember him because he was annoying as hell and they didn't have an Ignore/Block feature on those boards. Has he really been around for longer than I thought? Dang.
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I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
THIS.
Seconded.
As for you, Heine...I think there's a (semi?-)good topic of discussion in your mess of a post, namely
And if the BUZZR channel goes kaput, would that benefit GSN?
Probably, probably not. Buzzr and GSN cater to two very different kinds of viewers anyway, plus the former is an over-the-air network and the latter's cable-only. I don't think it's stiff competition, mind you, and I really don't think Buzzr going down would benefit GSN all that much anyway (or the other way around, unlikely as that may be).
But what are the odds of this?
If Fremantle doesn't think Buzzr's making a profit (or enough of one to justify the costs of running it), they'll shut it down. It's that simple. It'd suck for the classics fans, but it's a business first and foremost.
That's the only two sentences of yours I found even partially worth responding to. Otherwise...shut up, Heine. Seriously.
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But what are the odds of this?
If Fremantle doesn't think Buzzr's making a profit (or enough of one to justify the costs of running it), they'll shut it down. It's that simple. It'd suck for the classics fans, but it's a business first and foremost.
That's the only two sentences of yours I found even partially worth responding to. Otherwise...shut up, Heine. Seriously.
(http://www.nicholasmooneyhan.com/poptartsmackdown.jpg)
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I would not be able to pick the head honcho of BUZZR out of a lineup. And if I did I wouldn't have anything to say to him because I don't get that channel. Yes, it's kinda dumb that BUZZR is rerunning things over-and-over again with seemingly no explanation for it. If you don't like it, don't watch/don't buy that cable tier. What's unfortunate is that almost everyone in this thread has a modicum of sense and knows these things, and knows better than to overdose on capital letters and exclamation points.
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don't buy that cable tier.
Herein lies the punchline: it's a digital subchannel. Someone gets it on their cable if one of the local channels in the market picks it up, or you pull it in with an antenna. IT COSTS NOTHING.
Yet Entitled McPopTart here still whines.
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...here's what I would say to him about improving the BUZZR digital subchannel network and its RERUN ABUSE:
It is wayyyyyy too early in the week to be butthurt.
However, I'd like a pop-tart though.
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Wait...Heine wasn't banhammered? I was under the impression he was one of the first to receive the honor.
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Here's what I would say to the Grand Puba of Buzzr - work out a deal with Time Warner Cable to add your channel to their lineup.
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Here's what I would say to the Grand Puba of Buzzr - work out a deal with Time Warner Cable to add your channel to their lineup.
If I'm not mistaken, that's not how it works. One of your local affiliates has to put it on their digital subchannel. This isn't a standard cable station.
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Here's what I would say to the Grand Puba of Buzzr - work out a deal with Time Warner Cable to add your channel to their lineup.
If I'm not mistaken, that's not how it works. One of your local affiliates has to put it on their digital subchannel. This isn't a standard cable station.
The provider still has to find a spot for it on its channel lineup, and does not necessarily have to do so right away. Hence why Verizon was delayed in picking Buzzr up after some of its competitors did.
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The provider still has to find a spot for it on its channel lineup, and does not necessarily have to do so right away. Hence why Verizon was delayed in picking Buzzr up after some of its competitors did.
You sure about that? I'd think "must-carry" rules would apply. I'd love for you to show me the relevant statutes if you know otherwise, though.
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The provider still has to find a spot for it on its channel lineup, and does not necessarily have to do so right away. Hence why Verizon was delayed in picking Buzzr up after some of its competitors did.
You sure about that? I'd think "must-carry" rules would apply. I'd love for you to show me the relevant statutes if you know otherwise, though.
All I know is that Buzzr didn't immediately show up on FiOS when it launched, and as far as I know not all of the cable providers started carrying it at the same time.
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The provider still has to find a spot for it on its channel lineup, and does not necessarily have to do so right away. Hence why Verizon was delayed in picking Buzzr up after some of its competitors did.
You sure about that? I'd think "must-carry" rules would apply. I'd love for you to show me the relevant statutes if you know otherwise, though.
Must-carry does not apply to subchannels. Under the must-carry rules, cable operators are only required to carry the main feed of any over-the-air channel.
Relevant passage from the FCC's website:
Primary Video. The Report and Order finds that the “primary video” entitled to mandatory carriage includes a single programming stream and other program-related content. The television station chooses which one of its unrelated multiplexed signals gets carried under the Act. The Further Notice seeks comment on how to define “program-related” in the context of primary video.
Ancillary or Supplementary Services. The Report and Order finds that a cable operator is not required to carry ancillary or supplementary services transmitted on a digital television signal.
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WAHH WAHH WAHH! Buzzr's constant rerunning isn't exactly a favorite of mine, but it's not a cause of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, starvation, or other major issues that need to be fixed in the world, so they're free to do whatever they want. If this bothers you that much, go out, buy the rights to classic game shows, and launch your own channel.
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"SIR, THIS IS FINAL! EITHER YOU STOP DOING RERUN ABUSE TO THE SHOWS ON BUZZR AND ADD NEW TO BUZZR EPISODES TO THE GAME SHOWS YOU AIR AND STOP AIRING SHOWS IN REVERSE ORDER OR ELSE!!!"
Almost makes this (http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Sonic_Boom_Protests) seem reasonable.
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Every once in a while, it's good for the mods to let through posts like this to remind us how hard they work.
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don't buy that cable tier.
Herein lies the punchline: it's a digital subchannel. Someone gets it on their cable if one of the local channels in the market picks it up, or you pull it in with an antenna. IT COSTS NOTHING.
Yet Entitled McPopTart here still whines.
I forgot about this because BUZZR (and many, many other TV stations and media outlets) just don't enter my brain. If I'm the Sun and work, family, friends and money are the inner planets variously, BUZZR is a little BB-sized pebble floating in outer space at a mean distance of forty billion kilometers.
Darryl: we don't care about your tilt at windmills. We're not on your side and you're not exactly an empathetic figure around these parts. Enjoy the programming or don't but generally we don't care.
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"SIR, THIS IS FINAL! EITHER YOU STOP DOING RERUN ABUSE TO THE SHOWS ON BUZZR AND ADD NEW TO BUZZR EPISODES TO THE GAME SHOWS YOU AIR AND STOP AIRING SHOWS IN REVERSE ORDER OR ELSE!!!"
Almost makes this (http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Sonic_Boom_Protests) seem reasonable.
I always thought Sonic had blue arms. Not like I give a damn but still.
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Almost makes this (http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Sonic_Boom_Protests) seem reasonable.
After all the crazy game show things I've seen people on here (and other boards) over the last 20+ years get obsessive and belligerent over, that does not surprise me at all.
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Yet Entitled McPopTart here still whines.
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Santa Claus is coming to town soon - I'd just be happy if BUZZR came to my town too. I don't care so much about rerun abuse - at least they're airing shows GSN probably never will again. Eventually they'll build on their library. The "Lost and Found" stunt was certainly the highlight so far for me. If you can get this channel, consider yourself lucky.
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"SIR, THIS IS FINAL!
Well, at least you have manners when you start insane diatribe.
I suppose this is real, but it's so darn ridiculous that it seems fabricated. I mean really, you throw in a Blondie reference? Are you practicing cutaway gags for your future job as a Family Guy writer?
I feel that you're more than welcome to be displeased with the excessive reruns of Buzzr, but really? Empty threats? I think I find a splinter more threatening than you.
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I mean really, you throw in a Blondie reference? Are you practicing cutaway gags for your future job as a Family Guy writer?
One of his other obsessions is comic strips. He posts videos of them to YouTube and reads them aloud.
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If he did "Garfield Minus Garfield", I'd watch that.
/Once.
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Empty threats? I think I find a splinter more threatening than you.
And yet, less painful to encounter.