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COULD VINTAGE GAME SHOWS WIND UP ON ME-TV, ANTENNA-TV, RTV, etc.

gregg75

gregg75

Face it, these retro librarys are only going to go so far. Sooner or later newer and newer shows
are going to HAVE TO be added. You can only pull shows, stick them back in and move
their times around for so long (maybe 4 or 5 years max). Then you're gonna have to buy series
from a NEWER year.

Instead of Me-TV moving into 1997 and Antenna TV showing The Golden Girls, why don't they tap
into the long list of retro game shows?

Would you watch vintage game shows on Antenna TV? Do you think others would also? Would you
be willing to watch Leave It To Beaver followed by To Tell The Truth?

I think Game Show Network probably owns the rights to many of the old game shows, BUT THEY
NEVER SHOW THEM. They're just sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

Many of those shows would fit right in with the retro channels. GSN (being the game loving
network that they are) should release those old shows to others, or quit buying what they're not
gonna use. If they're not gonna play with their OLD TOYS, at least let someone else use them.

I think these retro channels will eventually have to make a decision.......either go the Golden Girls route or mix some vintage game shows into the mix.
 
OR
maybe GSN should consider starting a retro game show subchannel? I'm sure they would have the $$$ to do it. Subchannel seems like it might be a better route than just a black & white GSN network.

Somebody needs to do something to bring these shows back to braodcast.
 
While I'd agree with the idea of a "Classics Only" channel, I fear that many of the hoped-for audience has this odd aversion to anything that's in black & white. In a perfect world, one would think that because so many of these programs have such great guests or interesting content, the fact that they are in only two colors could be overlooked.
 
I thought that Fremantle jacked up the rights fee to the point
that GSN could no longer afford the Goodson-Todman library;
the only G-T shows I still see on GSN are "Match Game" and
the occasional Dawson "Family Feud."

But those b&w game shows are more entertaining than most
of what's on now (I saw "Baggage" once and would almost be
willing to start a drive to get that show taken off, first for content
and second from a case of terminal boredom), and the original
"What's My Line?"'s mystery guests are a virtual who's who of the
mid-twentieth century (just as clips of "The Ed Sullivan Show" are
a treasure trove of mid-century entertainment, with everybody from
Crosby to Sinatra to Elvis to the Beatles to the Jackson 5).

Here's hoping somebody will spring for them; if not, put them on DVD
(I still want to see Tom Brokaw on "Two For The Money" when he was
17 in 1957).
 
CrankyYankee said:
While I'd agree with the idea of a "Classics Only" channel, I fear that many of the hoped-for audience has this odd aversion to anything that's in black & white. In a perfect world, one would think that because so many of these programs have such great guests or interesting content, the fact that they are in only two colors could be overlooked.
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I guess you are not watching Me-TV or Antenna TV because many of their shows ARE IN BLACK &
WHITE.
 
GSN is unlikely to start a diginet as long as CBS owns it

And while we're on the subject, why don't the diginets also consider throwing in the classic soap operas as well (You see them popping up on the YouTube & the Internet Archive all the time)

That (As well as MORE CLASSIC MOVIES would be a great idea !!

Thoughts?

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
i would love to see the original gong show on tv again.it would be a great show for one of those channels.the only one i get here is antenna tv so of course i would like to see it on that channel.
 
Would be a good idea to put What's My Line, I've Got a Secret, vintage TPiR, etc. on a subchannel, but before you know it there will be Millionaire reruns! :mad:

-crainbebo
 
Pat Cook said:
GSN is unlikely to start a diginet as long as CBS owns it
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...CBS does not own GSN. GSN's ownership is split between DirectTV Group (60%) and Sony Pictures Television (40%)...
 
Pat Cook said:
GSN is unlikely to start a diginet as long as CBS owns it

And while we're on the subject, why don't the diginets also consider throwing in the classic soap operas as well (You see them popping up on the YouTube & the Internet Archive all the time)

That (As well as MORE CLASSIC MOVIES would be a great idea !!

Thoughts?

Cheers & 73 ;D
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Sooner or later the networks will open the vaults on the soaps, and one would think they could have a solid following. I would love to see $ale of the century again. I watched it all the time in the 1980's.
 
Funny thing....I was born in 1959 & raised on game shows....but the first time I actually saw a "rerun" on a game show as far as I can remember, it was a summer repeat of an hour-long "Price is Right" on CBS; and I thought to myself something like, How cheap! Who would ever watch a rerun of a game show? Price is Right doesn't wanna give out more in prizes!

Fast forward to 1994 or whatever year GSN began. Wow! I doubt I'd have ever thought it would be a success this long. And it's still here in 2011.

Keep in mind that the networks (for the most part) "wiped" their daytime game show tapes to re-use. They may have thought as I did before, but for different reasons----theirs was to save money, I would think, as videotape was quite dear.

I doubt that anyone at the networks would see GSN in the future. Nevertheless, I think I read that Goodson
& Todman had the rerun vision long before you and I!

I sure would love to see shows that I know I never will, due to the wiping. "Double Exposure," "Your Surprise Package," "Dough Re Mi" & others---forget it.

As to the above post of "The Gong Show," as popular as it was, you might have to forget that too, for clearing music rights would be a killer.

In the meantime, back to YouTube!

cd
 
cd637299 said:
Nevertheless, I think I read that Goodson
& Todman had the rerun vision long before you and I!
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...in fact, it was syndicated reruns of the CBS versions of Password and To Tell the Truth in 1968-69 (WGN-TV/9 Chicago was one of the syndication affiliates) that led to the ABC revival of Password and the Garry Moore syndicated version of To Tell the Truth shortly afterwards...
 
Ultimajock said:
cd637299 said:
Nevertheless, I think I read that Goodson
& Todman had the rerun vision long before you and I!
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...in fact, it was syndicated reruns of the CBS versions of Password and To Tell the Truth in 1968-69 (WGN-TV/9 Chicago was one of the syndication affiliates) that led to the ABC revival of Password and the Garry Moore syndicated version of To Tell the Truth shortly afterwards...
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Correct. I believe KTLA in Los Angeles was the first to give this a try....my local WTVJ Miami re-ran the 1966-67 color Passwords. I did not know that TTTT had the same fate, though.

Which means, I goofed again. THAT was my first exposure to game show reruns!* I guess my post #11 referred to game shows on network.

cd

[*OK I just thought of something else...."The Best of Groucho" was reruns of his "You Bet Your Life"...do we count that? :D ]
 
While I agree with the OP statement, Me-TV has really gone into "stable" mode the last few years. They used to alternate shows a lot and show a lot of different shows, rotating four times a year. For the last few years, Me-TV and Me-Too have seemed to have found a stable schedule of shows and are sticking with it.

Antenna TV is the same old thing as well.
 
gregg75 said:
CrankyYankee said:
While I'd agree with the idea of a "Classics Only" channel, I fear that many of the hoped-for audience has this odd aversion to anything that's in black & white. In a perfect world, one would think that because so many of these programs have such great guests or interesting content, the fact that they are in only two colors could be overlooked.
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I guess you are not watching Me-TV or Antenna TV because many of their shows ARE IN BLACK &
WHITE.
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A lot of the hoped-for audience also isn't, just like what CrankyYankee actually said. :eek:
 
I keep writing them and telling them they need to try to get the rights to the Australian soap, Prisoner (Prisoner: Cell Block H), that is the best show in the world ;D

Seriously check out some episodes on YouTube.
 
Theirs Sopanet but it will be leaving.
Iv'e seen Millionare on GSN before and GSN does have new versions of like Lingo and so on.
 
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