Author Topic: GSN Ratings Tanking... (Read 24949 times)

tyshaun1 · « **Reply #75 on:** October 21, 2007, 08:02:56 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'167541\' date=\'Oct 21 2007, 04:39 PM\']
Do you remember the interactive game show block on the Family Channel? That sure looked to me to be a pilot of what FAM's proposed Game Show Channel would have looked like if they had launched. I know Randy West was there, so maybe he could shed some light?
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I'm not Randy (but yet, who is?), but I can indeed tell you that those early 90's shows were the testing grounds for Pat Robertson's GSC. But due to Sony going around and acquiring all the major properties (leasing Goodson-Todman, buying Barry-Enright and Barris), and USA still having the rights to PYL, Reg Grundy and Pyramid, the well dried up for FAM quickly and it never got off the ground. They did get classic LMAD and Crosswits '86, but would you launch an entire network around those two and Trivial Pursuit?

Tyshaun
/sit down, Iris
//slashies are kind of fun

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #76 on:** October 21, 2007, 09:23:53 PM »

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'167479\' date=\'Oct 20 2007, 09:23 PM\']
After all, isn't that what GSN is in the business of? Reruns?[/quote]
Reruns are a fact of life on just about every non-sports, non-news channel (and even quite a few sports and news channels). However, I don't think anybody at GSN would say they're "in the business of" airing reruns.

snowpeck · « **Reply #77 on:** October 22, 2007, 03:21:42 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'167541\' date=\'Oct 21 2007, 04:39 PM\']
IIRC, the only Goodson shows CBN had were also those that were distributed off-net by Firestone, so I'm thinking CBN dealt with Firestone rather than Goodson itself.
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They also ran the 78-81 run of Card Sharks at one point. Were those reruns distributed by Firestone?

Greg

Eric Paddon · « **Reply #78 on:** October 22, 2007, 05:39:59 PM »

I don't remember CS reruns on CBN, but I do remember WABC in New York airing reruns of CS directly opposite SOTC on WNBC, which meant in NY Jim Perry was competing against himself!

narzo · « **Reply #79 on:** October 30, 2007, 11:36:20 PM »

Card Sharks was definatly on CBN as was Goodson's "Blockbusters" They also had "$50,000 pyramid", "Bullseye", "Treasure Hunt", "Lets make a deal", could those all have been Firestone?