Well that's different. Those are events, not just 5 hours of regular ol' episodes. If they did GSSN's again with Millionaire celeb weeks, or "Super Jeopardy" or even crack the vaults open for some "Monopoly" or another weird niche show, it'd be cool.
And yeah, the focus seems real heavy on Karn Feud. I was surprised to find he was pretty popular among casual TV viewers, but obviously not enough to draw people to GSN.
The shred of optimist in me says the move to digital was done by carriers to get people to buy digital. As if to say GSN had so much potential interest, they thought people would upgrade to get it. Probably not true, but oh well. I've been enjoying the network more now than ever, devoting several hours to it in the daytime to catch "Super Password," Combs "Feud," P+, etc., etc.
Re: the first 5 years of the network though, was it really that good? I can certainly understand the allure of seeing Match Game in the clear whereas before you had to go on memories or fuzzy tape, but every shred of bumpers I've seen that shows what's coming up indicates a rather pedestrian lineup. Of curse, I got the network when it was at least 6 or 7 years old and the luster of these shows being seen again had faded some, but...black and white in primetime? Pish posh. Of course, they did have the advantage then of showing different runs of shows (shopping WoF!) and the biggie - TPIR.
I guess on a side side side SIDE note, what eras of shows did they get to in those early years? Did they show early Trebek J (first few seasons), for example?
-Jason