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Will network daytime game show ever make a full comeback?

CTListener said:
My favorites were Concentration (with Hugh Downs), Password (with Allen Ludden), the original Match Game (with Gene Rayburn before he became a leering double-entendre machine) and all of Bill Cullen's shows -- Press me for a favorite of his and I'd probably choose Eye Guess. I even had the home versions of Concentration and Password!
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Ah, someone else who remembers Eye Guess. :)

I enjoyed all of the above, plus the original Jeopardy with Art Fleming ("oh, so sorry ... the correct Jeopardy question is ..."), Hollywood Squares, any version of the Pyramid that Dick Clark hosted, Press Your Luck, and even a few that may have gone forgotten by most ... You Don't Say, $ale of the ¢entury, High Rollers, and Now You See It ...
 
CTListener said:
Game shows were the best part of being sick enough to stay home from school.
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Soap Operas were the other (Yes I watched them :) )

Nowadays, I collect videos of old soap opera episodes from YouTube & the Internet Archive :)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
K.M. Richards said:
Ah, someone else who remembers Eye Guess. :)

I enjoyed all of the above, plus the original Jeopardy with Art Fleming ("oh, so sorry ... the correct Jeopardy question is ..."), Hollywood Squares, any version of the Pyramid that Dick Clark hosted, Press Your Luck, and even a few that may have gone forgotten by most ... You Don't Say, $ale of the ¢entury, High Rollers, and Now You See It ...
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"Remember ... it's not what you say that counts ... it's what YOU DON'T SAY!" I think Tom Kennedy hosted that one, but I remember nothing else about it.
 
CTListener said:
"Remember ... it's not what you say that counts ... it's what YOU DON'T SAY!" I think Tom Kennedy hosted that one, but I remember nothing else about it.
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You are correct in remembering that it was Kennedy and that etched-in-our-minds sign-off line.

What I remember of the game itself was that two celebrities teamed up with two contestants (where have we seen that before?) and it was kind of like Password, except the "password" was a celebrity name.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Nickelodeon Orlando closed because they didn't need them anymore with the Nicktoon boom and the talent was located in SoCal but Sunset Blvd isn't a family friendly place like Universal Orlando or even Universal Hollywood (It's UCS for them)
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Jay Ward Productions (Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle) had their headquarters on the Sunset Strip.
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K.M. Richards said:
Ah, someone else who remembers Eye Guess. :)

I enjoyed all of the above, plus the original Jeopardy with Art Fleming ("oh, so sorry ... the correct Jeopardy question is ..."), Hollywood Squares, any version of the Pyramid that Dick Clark hosted, Press Your Luck, and even a few that may have gone forgotten by most ... You Don't Say, $ale of the ¢entury, High Rollers, and Now You See It ...
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Thankfully, $ale's reruns are being re-aired Sunday nights on Buzzr. I would love to see the $10, $25, and $100,000 Pyramid episodes find their way to Buzzr, and hopefully one day that will occur. Adding to your list, I've become quite fond of Double Dare. I never paid any attention to it when the show first aired on CBS mornings in '76. At the time, I was 10. As a result, it's all brand new to me. The first time that Alex Trebek asked for the first clue to be revealed and the doors opened, I wholeheartedly expected to see some pennies light up and for all of us to find out that the price of a can of Hormel chili is $0.69. It's actually kind of amazing to see how many different times some of those old music beds and cues were rehashed on other game shows later on down the road.
 
purpledevil said:
Thankfully, $ale's reruns are being re-aired Sunday nights on Buzzr. I would love to see the $10, $25, and $100,000 Pyramid episodes find their way to Buzzr, and hopefully one day that will occur.
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I'll tell you why not and then we can cry about it together.

Buzzr is owned by Fremantle Media, and is programmed entirely out of the library that they own the rights to. While this includes the entire Goodson-Todman output and a few others, they do not own Pyramid.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I'll tell you why not and then we can cry about it together.

Buzzr is owned by Fremantle Media, and is programmed entirely out of the library that they own the rights to. While this includes the entire Goodson-Todman output and a few others, they do not own Pyramid.
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I wish some channel in Memphis or Jackson, TN would get Buzzr, but I'm not holding my breath for it to happen any time soon. I've said before that I wish a lot of the subchannels would make themselves available on streaming devices like Roku,especially the retro TV channels.
 
anotherguy said:
I've said before that I wish a lot of the subchannels would make themselves available on streaming devices like Roku,especially the retro TV channels.
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I have said (somewhere on here) that the reason there are no national feeds of the diginets on DirecTV and Dish is because those networks have affiliation agreements with local stations and a national feed would violate those agreements. It's the same reason why there is no "national" cable/satellite feed for ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, or The CW.

The same logic applies. A stream would violate the local affiliation agreements.

The only time a subchannel will appear on cable or satellite is when the station broadcasting same will make a diginet carriage part of its retransmission agreement, on a market-by-market basis. This is, for example, why Time Warner Cable here in L.A. carries Antenna TV (it's in the KTLA retrans agreement) and Cozi (it's in the KNBC agreement). And they carry them with the local commercials ... see why a stream or national feed isn't in their interest?

Thus your wish is extremely unlikely to come true. Sorry.
 
I actually thought it had to be a joking proposition. No one would seriously suggest businesses should toss away millions of dollars for the sake of making someone's dreams of adolescence lost come true.
 
Bob Eubanks said:
I actually thought it had to be a joking proposition. No one would seriously suggest businesses should toss away millions of dollars for the sake of making someone's dreams of adolescence lost come true.
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But there's no advertising money to be lost in markets where no local station is carrying Cozi or Antenna TV, so why not open up geoblocked Internet feeds for residents of those markets -- and maybe sell local advertising on them?
 
Forgot to use quotes. No, not the digipet thing and whatever contractual and logistical matters there are in such cases, but rather the "main" networks bringing back game shows out the wazoo.
 
I've found out that there are some Buzzr connected channels on You Tube. There's their official channel and at least 2 unofficial fan channels that show videos from their programming. It's interesting that they've been running some shows (Mostly Goodson-Todman shows) that had very short runs and pilots that never made it on them. It looks like G-T did better by doing updated versions of what could be considered their classic shows (TPIR, Family Feud, Match Game, and Password) than with any of the newer shows they tried to develop, and since the 90's TPIR and Family Feud are the only ones to continue.

Even if they couldn't stream the live feed like KM has said, it looks like they could at least have a streaming app with some on demand programming like a lot of other OTA and cable networks have.
 
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The reason why I want network daytime game shows back was because I never got to experience it because of school, why couldn't the networks air the soaps while kids were in school and air the game shows when kids came home from school, for an example a schedule like this:

CBS (1987):

7:00AM - 9:00PM - CBS This Morning
9:00AM - 10:00PM - Syndie Talk Show
10:00AM - 11:00AM - The Young and the Restless
11:00AM - 12:00PM - As The World Turns
12:00PM - 12:30PM - Local News
12:30PM - 1:00PM - The Bold And The Beautiful
1:00PM - 2:00PM - Guiding Light
2:00PM - 3:00PM - Syndie Talk Show
3:00PM - 3:30PM - $25K Pyramid
3:30PM - 4:00PM - Card Sharks
4:00PM - 5:00PM - The Price Is Right

NBC (1987):

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Today
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Syndie Talk Show
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Days Of Our Lives
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Another World
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Local News
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM: Local Programming
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Santa Barabra
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Syndie Talk Show
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Sale Of The Century
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Classic Concentration
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Scrabble
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Wheel Of Fortune
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Super Password

Why couldn't the networks have schedules like that so that everybody can watch network daytime game shows, and not just for those who are the stay at home parent or retired people?
 
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