Edward, please stop bludgeoning this topic. It is now so near death that I fear we will have to rush it to the ER before much longer.
As I said way back at
post #15:
The era is long gone. There is more revenue in a daytime schedule full of talk shows. The industry follows the money.
Long paragraphs of your protests will not change anything. K?
Your arguments have now become circular:
Posts #2 & #3: We answer your original question.
Post #4: You rebut #3 as if you know more about the television business than the stations do.
Post #5: A reasonable suggestion is made about where to find classic game shows, which you ignore.
Posts #6, #7 & #8: We continue to explain how the business works.
Post #9: You attempt to put me down and "explain" why you are right and I am wrong.
Post #10: A belated response to #4.
Posts #11 & #12: Sidebar on the old shows.
Post #13: Valid point made about viability of the few game shows that have survived (mostly due to longevity), second valid point made about GSN going downhill.
Post #14: Response to #13.
Post #15: I take offense at your attempt to put me down back in #9 and make the statements I requoted above. A reasonable person would have stopped arguing at that point.
Posts #16 & #17: Sidebar on Wink Martindale.
Post #18: Someone new to the thread restates in his own words what has already been said in posts #2, #3, #6, #7, and #8 ... that the daytime game show era is over and not coming back.
By now, you are responding to everything by repeating yourself. Posts #20, #28, and this latest one (#58) are little more than "if they'd do it my way it would work" posts. Around here, we call that being an armchair quarterback: You are outside the business, you have had it explained by those in the business why your point of view is faulty, and you still insist that it should be done simply because you think it should.
Armchair quarterbacks do not gain longevity here. I politely suggest you accept that you will not win this argument and end it now, before you inadvertently say something that will destroy whatever credibility you might have left.
