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"Price is Right" Kids' Episode to air on Friday (May 3)
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Skynet74 said:
How much would two half hour game cost vs the extra Today show hour? Does it really matter since all the attractive demos have daytime jobs?
Anyone have highlights of the TPIR kids show today? And what about the commercials?
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Tim from Springfield said:
I only saw the first 2 games. www.golden-road.net will fill you in later this evening; they don't allow spoilers until all the time zones are met. It'll be in the board called First Run TPIR.
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Tim from Springfield said:
You could check the video section of the official World Wide Web site for CBS for the entire show. It should be there by tomorrow.
I must say that TPIR is my favorite game show of all time (and I started watching from the very beginning). The Gene Rayburn-version of Match Game 7x/PM is my second.
I still enjoy TPIR, but I long for a more traditional host. Drew just doesn't do it for me. I believe that TPIR needs a more traditional host and let the GAMES be the star of the show.
I still enjoy TPIR, but I long for a more traditional host. Drew just doesn't do it for me. I believe that TPIR needs a more traditional host and let the GAMES be the star of the show.
nomadcowatbk said:
All the attractive demos have daytime jobs? I don't know where you pulled that information from. #1. We no longer live in a 9 to 5 world. People work all hours around the clock. Secondly, there are just as many housewives or parents bringing up children as there ever was. Perhaps even more now than in the past. Houses are no longer empty at 11 AM. Even more people are probably home to watch television now than there were 30 years ago. So I think game shows in the morning would be a very welcome change. Non-stop news is making the world a paranoid mess. We need a break from that stuff now more than ever!
If there's more people at home from 9am to 3pm, they sure aren't watching broadcast TV.Skynet74 said:
According to the Television Bureau of Advertising, there's about 1.3 million households watching broadcast TV during the "daytime." That's down 32% from five years ago and down 74% from 30 years ago.
For comparison, during primetime, there's about 4.4 million households viewing network TV, down 71% from 1983.
Are some of these viewers watching cable? Absolutely they are. I couldn't find a figure for daytime cable viewing, but this year 7.7 million households are expected to watch primetime cable networks on an average night (excluding premium cable)
Skynet74 said:
Amen! I haven't worked a 9-5 job in 20 years.
Skynet74 said:
if people work 24/7, then why does primetime still matter?
Well if TV viewing is really down that much than it sounds like a bunch of people probably aren't watching because there is nothing good on. Programming sucks. Nothing worth watching. 4 Hours of the Today show and non-stop news coverage. No wonder TV viewing is down. Of course I'm positive the internet has something to do with it too. I watch a lot less TV now than ever before, both because of the lousy programming and also because the interactive value of being online is much more fun. However I would definitely watch more TV if there was something on worth watching. But as it stands... I sometimes go days without even turning my TV on.
Skynet74 said:
I definitely agree with the 4 hours of Today. After watching the Today Show since the 80's, I stopped after Meredith Viera left. Frankly, although I'm not a huge Matt Lauer fan, Ann Curry was really not the best choice for host of Today.
As for nonstop news coverage, it's been around for a while. I think that it's the expanded hours of repetitive local news that begins to get on my nerves. And BREAKING NEWS is not news that happened 12 hours ago!!
formeraa said:
+1! Haven't news anchors (and stations) heard of the term "Developing Story"?!? I turn on the news, there's "breaking news" of a shooting "That happened at 2:30 this morning". Why is this breaking? Couldn't they just call it developing story, because it's been FOUR HOURS since the shooting!
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A shooting four hours ago is just "news" if there is a suspect. It is neither breaking nor developing.
formeraa said:
Agreed as well; ABC and CBS seem to be happy with a 2 hour network morning show, so why does NBC feel the need to cram a thousand hour edition of the Today Show down everybody's throats?
Ideally, I would have NBC carry either a new edition of Concentration and a new Sale of the Century taking up either the 9 AM-10 AM Pacific timeslot or the 10 A-11 A pacific timeslot, and have the network give up the other hour to their affiliates(because it seems like things would go that way with NBC if they didn't have two extra hours of the Today Show).
Or if those two games wouldn't work, I would have NBC carry maybe a new version of Split Second, or Monopoly, or maybe two half hours of a game show NBC carried in primetime(1 vs 100, Deal or No Deal, The Singing Bee; albeit with a lower daytime type budget).
NBC's daytime is in such sorry shape because they caved in to the stations that pre-empted a big part of the daytime lineup and gave too much time back to them. I'd like to see them bring back some game shows, but local stations would probably start pre-empting them again.
The most likely thing that could happen would be for NBC to keep some sort of talk shows like CBS abd ABC have in the daytime now, and get rid of the Today branding on them.
The most likely thing that could happen would be for NBC to keep some sort of talk shows like CBS abd ABC have in the daytime now, and get rid of the Today branding on them.
Game shows did great in the morning for many years. It's really time to bring them back. This mundane cycle of non-stop News/Talk shows/Court shows has really run it's course. Today Show 7 to 9 is fine. Then 9 to 10 goes to the affiliate and 10 to Noon goes to the Network. That's pretty much the way it is now anyway. Just delete the last two hours of the Today show and replace them. Stick four nice game shows in there and give America the opportunity to escape all the insanity PLEASE!
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I love game shows too, but anotherguy hit on it. Affiliates would likely bail on NBC, and air what they wanted, including talk & court shows. Supply & demand----if there was enough outcry for game shows, the PTB would respond.
With added commercial time now for daytime (what is it now, 8 minutes of ads per half hour?), there isn't even enough time for "game" in the game shows. Today, I think that "Let's Make a Deal" would *only* work as an hour show. "Price is Right" was way ahead of its time, going 60 in 1975. But even now, things have to be crammed because of the added ad time I've said this many times, and I'll repeat: How Trebek can "clear the board" on Jeopardy! amazes me....even Art Fleming in his day, with less commercial time, couldn't do it.
And...can we really call Hoda & KLG really part of the Today Show? It's just another talker, which could go out in syndication, and nobody would know the difference......
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With added commercial time now for daytime (what is it now, 8 minutes of ads per half hour?), there isn't even enough time for "game" in the game shows. Today, I think that "Let's Make a Deal" would *only* work as an hour show. "Price is Right" was way ahead of its time, going 60 in 1975. But even now, things have to be crammed because of the added ad time I've said this many times, and I'll repeat: How Trebek can "clear the board" on Jeopardy! amazes me....even Art Fleming in his day, with less commercial time, couldn't do it.
And...can we really call Hoda & KLG really part of the Today Show? It's just another talker, which could go out in syndication, and nobody would know the difference......
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