Classic Concentration

[Chelsea Thrasher]

Something I've never completely understood is just exactly why NBC aired reruns of Classic Concentration for just over 2 years.  Was it cancelled and NBC got desperate for filler programming?  What exactly went on that a daytime game show would stop producing episodes, but continuing airing reruns of the show on the network for two more years?

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154624\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:25 AM\']
Something I've never completely understood is just exactly why NBC aired reruns of Classic Concentration for just over 2 years.  Was it cancelled and NBC got desperate for filler programming?  What exactly went on that a daytime game show would stop producing episodes, but continuing airing reruns of the show on the network for two more years?
[/quote]
In no particular order:

Economy
An eye towards the books
Cheapness
Apathy
Repurposing the show

Many couldn't even tell the difference until they saw the copyright date at the end of the show.

[narzo]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'154626\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:35 AM\']
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154624\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:25 AM\']
Something I've never completely understood is just exactly why NBC aired reruns of Classic Concentration for just over 2 years.  Was it cancelled and NBC got desperate for filler programming?  What exactly went on that a daytime game show would stop producing episodes, but continuing airing reruns of the show on the network for two more years?
[/quote]
In no particular order:

Economy
An eye towards the books
Cheapness
Apathy
Repurposing the show

Many couldn't even tell the difference until they saw the copyright date at the end of the show.
[/quote]

Don't think the CBS brass aren't thinking the same thing re: TPIR

[Jimmy Owen]

First-run CC was cancelled on the same day as daytime WOF (Sept 13 or 20/91, depending on your market.)  NBC had a myriad of talk-service shows ("One on One," "Cover to Cover," "Closer Look," etc.) that they hoped would find an audience.  None of the service shows really worked and back came CC in early Nov 91 (in reruns but as it turned out they performed as well at the outset as new shows.)

Not every affil carried the show post 91 and some who did put it on at ghastly hours.  I have a TV Guide from LA with a half-page display ad for CC that shows KNBC airing it at 3:05 AM.

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'154627\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 06:53 AM\']
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'154626\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:35 AM\']
order:

Economy
An eye towards the books
Cheapness
Apathy
Repurposing the show

Many couldn't even tell the difference until they saw the copyright date at the end of the show.
[/quote]

Don't think the CBS brass aren't thinking the same thing re: TPIR
[/quote]


Instead of Bob Barker doing a voiceover saying "Dont be fooled by my dark hair" (in the days when he let his hair go gray and there were reruns of the pre-gray hair airing), he'll be starting each rerun saying "Don't be fooled by my appearance here...I'm retired, I'm a chick magnet, and I'm still making money off of you bozos who couldn't play Ten Chances! correctly".

[Ian Wallis]

I have a TV Guide from LA with a half-page display ad for CC that shows KNBC airing it at 3:05 AM.

KNBC seemed to be doing that with some of the game shows for quite a while.  A few of the last-week Scrabble episodes on the trade curcuit came from them, and their voiceover at the end indicates it was an overnight airing.

Never understood why an O&O would do that.

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'154637\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 10:00 AM\']
Not every affil carried the show post 91 and some who did put it on at ghastly hours.  I have a TV Guide from LA with a half-page display ad for CC that shows KNBC airing it at 3:05 AM.
[/quote]

I seem to remember WNBC airing it at odd times too, although I don't think it was overnight...Somewhere between the 9am-10am hour and also 3pm-4pm hour is what I recall....

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'154651\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 11:25 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'154637\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 10:00 AM\']
Not every affil carried the show post 91 and some who did put it on at ghastly hours.  I have a TV Guide from LA with a half-page display ad for CC that shows KNBC airing it at 3:05 AM.
[/quote]

I seem to remember WNBC airing it at odd times too, although I don't think it was overnight...Somewhere between the 9am-10am hour and also 3pm-4pm hour is what I recall....
[/quote]

If I'm not mistaken, though, WNBC put CC in the 3-4 hour while it was still running new episodes, right? I seem to remember it paired with the last months of Scrabble in that slot, and that was still a year away from CC's cancellation.

[uncamark]

To put it most simply--low clearance levels.  If "CC" had a full lineup, it would've been in production.  At that point, the reruns were just standing to keep the network light on for a half-hour when the network didn't want to give it back to the stations.

[tvmitch]

I don't recall my own WGAL (Lancaster, PA) airing the show *until* the rerun stage, because I remember noticing the four-year old copyright dates. But I might be wrong. I don't remember if KYW (then NBC) aired CC or not.

WGAL did air Scrabble/Scattergories at 3pm its entire short run, but no other games in that era aired in late fringe, from what I can remember.

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'narzo\' post=\'154627\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 05:53 AM\']
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'154626\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:35 AM\']
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154624\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 04:25 AM\']
Something I've never completely understood is just exactly why NBC aired reruns of Classic Concentration for just over 2 years.  Was it cancelled and NBC got desperate for filler programming?  What exactly went on that a daytime game show would stop producing episodes, but continuing airing reruns of the show on the network for two more years?
[/quote]
In no particular order:

Economy
An eye towards the books
Cheapness
Apathy
Repurposing the show

Many couldn't even tell the difference until they saw the copyright date at the end of the show.
[/quote]

Don't think the CBS brass aren't thinking the same thing re: TPIR
[/quote]
In addition to the copyright dates at the end, viewers would also notice the cars' model years.

[sshuffield70]

Not necessarily.  IIRC, they've sometimes been known to redo the description without the year.  Those are inserted into the reruns.

[BrandonFG]

I know WAVY aired the show for the first couple of years, then stopped. They then aired a double-run of repeats at 3 pm for maybe a week or two in fall-1991, before replacing it with "Jenny Jones". Always thought that was random, not to mention disappointing.

I remember seeing it about six months later in Maryland, in the 10 am hour. By this point, I knew how to read roman numerals, and remember wondering why they were showing reruns from 1988. :-)

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'154624\' date=\'Jun 8 2007, 03:25 AM\']
Something I've never completely understood is just exactly why NBC aired reruns of Classic Concentration for just over 2 years.  Was it cancelled and NBC got desperate for filler programming?  What exactly went on that a daytime game show would stop producing episodes, but continuing airing reruns of the show on the network for two more years?
[/quote]
One other thing about that--there was a blub in USA TODAY during ClCn's rerun stretch in which Alex Trebek was quoted as saying that he and Mark Goodson both tried to convince NBC to produce new episodes given how good the ratings were for the reruns.  NBC took a pass.