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FlashStash

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« on: August 04, 2006, 08:56:52 AM »
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WB11/WPIX, Tribune Broadcasting's New York WB affiliate will premiere text2win, an original, live interactive TV game show on August 7 – the first for New York viewers to try their hands at winning cash prizes using mobile phones or computers. The show is produced by 3CirclesMedia and the hour-long show will air nightly through August 13 at 2a.

You just knew it was going to happen...especially with GSN announcing how much money they're making from Playmania.

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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2006, 09:03:54 AM »
[quote name=\'FlashStash\' post=\'126301\' date=\'Aug 4 2006, 07:56 AM\']
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WB11/WPIX, Tribune Broadcasting's New York WB affiliate will premiere text2win, an original, live interactive TV game show on August 7 – the first for New York viewers to try their hands at winning cash prizes using mobile phones or computers. The show is produced by 3CirclesMedia and the hour-long show will air nightly through August 13 at 2a.

You just knew it was going to happen...especially with GSN announcing how much money they're making from Playmania.

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Gee......Midnight Money Madness and text2win......back to the drawing board, Rich.  No one's heard of Playmania.
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 09:25:11 AM »
[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' post=\'126303\' date=\'Aug 4 2006, 06:03 AM\']
Gee......Midnight Money Madness and text2win......back to the drawing board, Rich.  No one's heard of Playmania.
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I'm guessing this is what he's counting on. :)
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2006, 10:11:51 AM »
I saw a trial run for this show on a satellite feed.

It was clearly for the WB station because she mentioned it, and was produced by a dutch company because the American host spoke fluent Dutch to her producers.

http://i5.tinypic.com/23l1mj4.jpg I found it unusal so I capped it for some reason.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2006, 04:19:31 PM »
[quote name=\'FlashStash\' post=\'126301\' date=\'Aug 4 2006, 07:56 AM\']
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WB11/WPIX, Tribune Broadcasting's New York WB affiliate will premiere text2win, an original, live interactive TV game show on August 7 – the first for New York viewers to try their hands at winning cash prizes using mobile phones or computers. The show is produced by 3CirclesMedia and the hour-long show will air nightly through August 13 at 2a.

You just knew it was going to happen...especially with GSN announcing how much money they're making from Playmania.[/quote]

Almost sure thing--we're getting a full-time call-in-and-lose channel on cable/satellite within the next six months.  With the offer of shared revenues, the big MSOs, DirecTV and Dish will put it on faster than you can say "QVC."
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Chelsea Thrasher

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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2006, 07:01:17 AM »
Yay, and GSN put out a PR yesterday saying they're adding another night to Playmania.   Yeesh.
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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2006, 09:48:08 AM »
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'126383\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 07:01 AM\']
Yay, and GSN put out a PR yesterday saying they're adding another night to Playmania.   Yeesh.
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Hey, good on them.  For once, GSN was ahead of a trend rather than responding (usually way too late) to one.  If it's working for them, and the late-night alternative is yet another rerun or infomercials, I say go for it!
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SRIV94

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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2006, 10:54:05 AM »
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'126383\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 06:01 AM\']
Yay, and GSN put out a PR yesterday saying they're adding another night to Playmania.   Yeesh.
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Hmmm--the press release indicates PLAYMANIA airs from 1AM-3AM ET, 10PM-12M PT.  Isn't that not the case, from several posts on this board (in other words, West Coasters don't get the show live)?

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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2006, 03:44:21 PM »
Wait.  If that (in the press release) is the case, then they're getting the exact same show at the exact same time as in the East.
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SRIV94

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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2006, 03:51:05 PM »
[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'126397\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 02:44 PM\']
Wait.  If that (in the press release) is the case, then they're getting the exact same show at the exact same time as in the East.
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Right--but we've had posts on this board indicating otherwise:

[quote name=\'melman1\' post=\'123167\' date=\'Jul 3 2006, 09:06 AM\']
And on the Western feed, it's aired tape-delayed.  So the only possible motivation for watching it, the lame call-in-and-play part of it, isn't even there.
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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2006, 04:04:21 PM »
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'126398\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 12:51 PM\']
Right--but we've had posts on this board indicating otherwise:

[quote name=\'melman1\' post=\'123167\' date=\'Jul 3 2006, 09:06 AM\']
And on the Western feed, it's aired tape-delayed.  So the only possible motivation for watching it, the lame call-in-and-play part of it, isn't even there.
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But this rebegs the question: does GSN have a West Coast feed? I'm pretty sure I get PlayMania in the 10P-midnight slot, those few times I've seen it. I'm just not sure melman's right.
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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2006, 04:17:23 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'126399\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 03:04 PM\']
But this rebegs the question: does GSN have a West Coast feed? I'm pretty sure I get PlayMania in the 10P-midnight slot, those few times I've seen it. I'm just not sure melman's right.
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Judging from tvguide.com, they do.  I looked at listings from two cable providers--one in Los Angeles (Time-Warner) and one in Seattle (Comcast).  Both show PLAYMANIA airing at 1AM PT (if it was one feed for both East and West Coast--PLAYMANIA would air at 10PM).

I don't live on the West Coast--so I can't gauge the accuracy.

Doug
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« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2006, 04:48:20 PM »
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'126400\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 01:17 PM\']
Judging from tvguide.com, they do.  I looked at listings from two cable providers--one in Los Angeles (Time-Warner) and one in Seattle (Comcast).  Both show PLAYMANIA airing at 1AM PT (if it was one feed for both East and West Coast--PLAYMANIA would air at 10PM).
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Well, there you go. I thought I remembered seeing it earlier. Of course, I could also check my Tivo guide, and right now I shall do so:

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Well, now, see, here we are: My Tivo schedule for Thursday 8/10 shows PlayMania from 10:00P to midnight, and Paid Programming from 1:00a on. Ditto last Thursday and Friday nights.

So I'm thinking I might be right here.
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« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2006, 05:04:00 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'126401\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 03:48 PM\']
So I'm thinking I might be right here.
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You might both be right.  Assuming you get GSN from cable, you might have a cable provider who gives you the East Coast feed.  That would mean that MG75, IGAS and WWTBAM should precede PLAYMANIA starting at 8PM PT.  Is that the case?

Not unheard of to get the feed opposite from the one you theoretically should get.  I have digital cable, but I get the West Coast feed of Sundance rather than the East Coast feed.

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« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2006, 05:17:50 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'126399\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 01:04 PM\']But this rebegs the question: does GSN have a West Coast feed?[/quote]Yes, GSN has had a West Coast feed for some time now, but Our Benevolent Cable (and in my case, Internet) Provider here in Seattle still takes the East feed.  (For the most part it works for me; I can watch MG before going to work (6 AM PT) and in prime time (8 PM PT) and don't have to wait up 'til 3:30 for an old WML? (12:30 AM PT).  (Funny thing; our interactive guide has the right information, but when the TV Guide Channel shows listings for GSN, it uses the West Coast feed schedule.)

Esoteric Eric... I was planning to spend Seattle's annual Afternoon of the Loud Planes (Blue Angels) here in the Forum, anyway; my next post will be a three-years-overdue profile in "Let's Meet Our Players!", where I hope to add up just how many times I've mentioned that Comcast Seattle takes the GSN East feed.  I'm setting the over-under at 5 1/2. ((8=D))
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