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nuzguy

Apparently the term "MASH Marathon" is TVL's code word for "almost as many commercial minutes each hour as program minutes." MASH is interrupted, on the average, every eight minutes for 4-5 minute breaks. This practice is in its second night now; it will be interesting to see if the rest of the week is any different.

TVL is loading spots more heavily than is customary. The national board has a note that Fox will air two new shows with fewer commercials. But how lomng will THAT last.
 
So will TVL return to its former insidious practice of shows starting somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes late because of all the ads?
 
My biggest beef with TVL is not the repetition or the marathons. As in the previous posts it is the spot load on these programs. Originally when these programs aired. there was most of the time a 30 second spot, a 60 second spot and another 30 second spot before the closing credits,a 10 or 30 second promo before the network outcue ID. Alternating sponsors were also the norm in the early days of television...usually with the stars of the program (in character) doing a commercial for the product in the latter 30 second spot before the closing sponsor credits and program credits. Needless to say there has to be a generous amount of program continuity lost. I noticed this especially in the 90s when VH-1 ran a Monkees marathon one summer in the summer/fall of '96 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series and the band.

Since "Vh-1" (new image and logo) has dropped most of its music videos to what it does now..it has been a complete turn off as a viewer. Video Hits One has become a senseless Video Hellhole One running the reality TV crase into the ground as the buisiness has done time and time again taking an original out of the ordinary idea and overkilling it. Watching Vh-1 nowadays its practically ideantical to "tru-tv" Perhaps VH-1 shoud adopt a new name as well.

Where's Martha Quinn when you need her?

Also what about OTHER vintage shows long forgotten?

I can mention a few which never aired by either TV Land or Nick at Night..many had a long run.
The Untouchables
December Bride
Happy Days
Bachelor Father
Family Affair
Mork and Mindy
Mc Millan and Wife
Wells Fargo
The Virginian
McHale's Navy
The Millionaire
and a longer list of enduring programs too numerous to mention here,but you may find a few on RTN before the big boys run em outta biz-ness!
 
nuzguy said:
Apparently the term "MASH Marathon" is TVL's code word for "almost as many commercial minutes each hour as program minutes." MASH is interrupted, on the average, every eight minutes for 4-5 minute breaks. This practice is in its second night now; it will be interesting to see if the rest of the week is any different.

TVL is loading spots more heavily than is customary. The national board has a note that Fox will air two new shows with fewer commercials. But how lomng will THAT last.
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Dunno about 'customary'. I was watching Desperate Housewives with the wifey last night and counted 7 min commercial breaks almost consistantly throughout the 2-hour show. Usually they seem to go the first 15 minutes without a break then load the commercials heavily into the last 45 minutes.

And when I use the term 'commercials' I'm including many, many promo's in that count. Maybe they can't sell all their airtime?
 
kirkiefan said:
Also what about OTHER vintage shows long forgotten?

I can mention a few which never aired by either TV Land or Nick at Night..many had a long run.
The Untouchables
December Bride
Happy Days
Bachelor Father
Family Affair
Mork and Mindy
Mc Millan and Wife
Wells Fargo
The Virginian
McHale's Navy
The Millionaire
and a longer list of enduring programs too numerous to mention here,but you may find a few on RTN before the big boys run em outta biz-ness!
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Happy Days and Mork & Mindy aired on Nick@Nite back in the late 80s/early 90s

Family Affair aired on TV Land about 10 years ago and on FX before that.
I am pretty sure McHale's Navy did TV Land but I do know Comedy Central had it during its early days back in the early 90s.
 
TV Land used to be great, classic shows, retromercials, Twip (remember that?). now it just sucks. Extreme Makeover, no more closing credits, same old edited movies (what that has to do with classic TV is beyond me), I blame Viacom and it's 25 year old employees in empty suits for running the channel into the ground. Maybe they'll make a TV Land 2, it'll last for a couple of years, and then they'll let that one run in the ground as well!
 
GET SMART

With the new GET SMART movie coming out this summer, I wonder if any of the Cable Channels will show the DON ADAMS 196's classic? Like TV LAND, HALLMARK, etc?
 
kirkiefan said:
Also what about OTHER vintage shows long forgotten?

I can mention a few which never aired by either TV Land or Nick at Night..many had a long run.
The Untouchables
December Bride
Happy Days
Bachelor Father
Family Affair
Mork and Mindy
Mc Millan and Wife
Wells Fargo
The Virginian
McHale's Navy
The Millionaire
and a longer list of enduring programs too numerous to mention here,but you may find a few on RTN before the big boys run em outta biz-ness!
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"Happy Days" runs daily on RTN, and "McMillan and Wife" is there on weekends (along with "McCloud," which I haven't seen in years).

Madmansam said:
With the new GET SMART movie coming out this summer, I wonder if any of the Cable Channels will show the DON ADAMS 196's classic? Like TV LAND, HALLMARK, etc?
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"Get Smart" is also on RTN. I'm watching it every day. ("....and loving it!")

RTN is a trip -- between the shows themselves, the dearth of "real" advertising (mostly "As Seen on TV!" type products), informercials all night, the graphics, and the cheesy show promos that look like they were assembled in Freshman Editing 101, RTN makes me think of a low-budget, just getting started out UHF indie from the 80's. Gives me the warm nostalgic fuzzies. ;)
 
Sadly, we don't have RTN around here. I instead am resorting to the new and improved DVDLand. The program choices increase with each visit to Best Buy.
 
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