Game Show "Channels" On Roku,...Etc... Thread.

[BrandonFG]

Later than spring 98. I remember sneaking a peek at GSN in summer '99, and they were still doing a different season every day.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

When Price is Right joined GSN's regular schedule in Dec 1996, they aired half-hour episodes during the day and hour-long just before primetime.  The hour-long episodes went as Chelsea described like this:

Monday - 1975 (starting with the first hour-long show)
Tuesday - 1979-80
Wednesday - 1982-83
Thursday - 1986-87
Friday - 1991-92

They did this for quite a while but eventually it became mostly just 1983 episodes (probably in April 1998).

Since we're being hyper-specific about it all here and since I'm in a mood to make sure the info's right when someone googles this a few years later (and since I have a pretty decent quantity of what GSN actually aired)

From launch (December 9, 1996) through the last day of the Goodson lease, October 10, 1997, the hour-long episodes had one episode a day with the season rotation listed above at 6PM. GSN's formal name for the scheduling pattern (per a 1997 printed schedule guide) was called "TPIR Anthology"

When the so-called "Dark Period" (I loathe that term) started, the show went to 2x airings per weekday of the same episode at 1PM and 7PM. 

When GSN changed up their schedule somewhat in January of '98, the 1PM/7PM airings became sequential episodes within that season (ex: 3/26/92 at 1, 3/27/92 at 7 on Fridays).  For the fur skip seasons [by then 1977-78 and 1980-81], this meant the next designated airable show from that part of the run. This held through April 17, 1998.

The Goodson shows came back Saturday, April 18, 1998.  At that point (well, the following Monday), the show consolidated to a single season showing episodes sequentially (and with the show changing time slots again), continuing on where the Tuesday run had been - the start of March 1981 (3/4/81 unless I have something mislabeled). 

When WinTV started in August '98, the afternoon airing for it became the "different episodes" run (but I don't believe there was a pattern, unlike before, and they absolutely reaired shows) - while the other airing, at whatever time it happened to be at that point on GSN (most often first thing in the morning at 8AM ET) continued the early 80s run 5x/week. The 80s run disappeared while the WinTV shows remained for a little starting October '99 (they'd gotten to around November '83-ish?) - to much tantruming on ATGS - but was eventually reinstated in place of the WinTV shows for Price's final months on GSN in 2000 when WinTV moved to other shows.

Later than spring 98. I remember sneaking a peek at GSN in summer '99, and they were still doing a different season every day.

WinTV yes (but no longer in a pattern), regular airings no - except for perhaps a one-off or two where WinTV wasn't "on" that day. But if that even happened at all, haven't seen any episodes where that's the case.

[Ian Wallis]

From launch (December 9, 1996) through the last day of the Goodson lease, October 10, 1997, the hour-long episodes had one episode a day with the season rotation listed above at 6PM. GSN's formal name for the scheduling pattern (per a 1997 printed schedule guide) was called "TPIR Anthology"

Ahh...I never knew that.  That's cool info!

When the so-called "Dark Period" (I loathe that term) started

I'm not crazy about that term either.  I always thought GSN went too heavy on the GT shows.  I guess nobody realized that they only had that original three-year lease on them.  When what some people refer to as "the dark period" started, I was excited because it meant we got to see some of the other shows for a change.  I must admit when the GT shows came back I was glad, but they jettisoned just about all of the other shows again.  I don't know why it had to be an "either or", and not some kind of mix.

That period did give us rare looks at some other cool shows they had - so it wasn't so dark.

[chad1m]

Social media ads for Sling TV tout new 1990s episodes coming to the Barker Era channel. Looks like they’re taking a “close enough” approach instead of calling them “white-hair Bob” episodes. (Yes, the image is from a 2000 special.)

[snowpeck]

When Price is Right joined GSN's regular schedule in Dec 1996, they aired half-hour episodes during the day and hour-long just before primetime.  The hour-long episodes went as Chelsea described like this:

Monday - 1975 (starting with the first hour-long show)
Tuesday - 1979-80
Wednesday - 1982-83
Thursday - 1986-87
Friday - 1991-92

They did this for quite a while but eventually it became mostly just 1983 episodes (probably in April 1998).

Since we're being hyper-specific about it all here and since I'm in a mood to make sure the info's right when someone googles this a few years later (and since I have a pretty decent quantity of what GSN actually aired)

From launch (December 9, 1996) through the last day of the Goodson lease, October 10, 1997, the hour-long episodes had one episode a day with the season rotation listed above at 6PM. GSN's formal name for the scheduling pattern (per a 1997 printed schedule guide) was called "TPIR Anthology"

When the so-called "Dark Period" (I loathe that term) started, the show went to 2x airings per weekday of the same episode at 1PM and 7PM. 

When GSN changed up their schedule somewhat in January of '98, the 1PM/7PM airings became sequential episodes within that season (ex: 3/26/92 at 1, 3/27/92 at 7 on Fridays).  For the fur skip seasons [by then 1977-78 and 1980-81], this meant the next designated airable show from that part of the run. This held through April 17, 1998.

The Goodson shows came back Saturday, April 18, 1998.  At that point (well, the following Monday), the show consolidated to a single season showing episodes sequentially (and with the show changing time slots again), continuing on where the Tuesday run had been - the start of March 1981 (3/4/81 unless I have something mislabeled). 

When WinTV started in August '98, the afternoon airing for it became the "different episodes" run (but I don't believe there was a pattern, unlike before, and they absolutely reaired shows) - while the other airing, at whatever time it happened to be at that point on GSN (most often first thing in the morning at 8AM ET) continued the early 80s run 5x/week. The 80s run disappeared while the WinTV shows remained for a little starting October '99 (they'd gotten to around November '83-ish?) - to much tantruming on ATGS - but was eventually reinstated in place of the WinTV shows for Price's final months on GSN in 2000 when WinTV moved to other shows.

Later than spring 98. I remember sneaking a peek at GSN in summer '99, and they were still doing a different season every day.

WinTV yes (but no longer in a pattern), regular airings no - except for perhaps a one-off or two where WinTV wasn't "on" that day. But if that even happened at all, haven't seen any episodes where that's the case.

The WinTV timeslot wasn't as strict about which season aired on which day like the "Anthology" slot had been, but they did typically get later in the run throughout the week. Monday shows were usually from very early in the hour era and Friday shows were generally from season 20 (though not always).

[BrandonFG]

When the so-called "Dark Period" (I loathe that term) started

I'm not crazy about that term either.  I always thought GSN went too heavy on the GT shows.  I guess nobody realized that they only had that original three-year lease on them.  When what some people refer to as "the dark period" started, I was excited because it meant we got to see some of the other shows for a change.  I must admit when the GT shows came back I was glad, but they jettisoned just about all of the other shows again.  I don't know why it had to be an "either or", and not some kind of mix.

That period did give us rare looks at some other cool shows they had - so it wasn't so dark.

I think the first GSN show I saw during that era was a late-70s TPiR. A few months later I discovered TJW, TTD, Treasure Hunt, and 3’s a Crowd. Given that I’d only read about these shows and never thought I’d be able to see GSN I was in Heaven. 

Getting the G-T library back was obviously cool, but I never overstood what was so “dark” about those few months.

[Blanquepage]

I think the overplaying of Dating Game & Newlywed Game, plus additions of content the online collective perceived as bad shows like Ruckus, 3's a Crowd, etc, is what fed the whole "Dark Period" characterization. Decades later, I rather enjoy digitizing all the Ruckus I stockpiled, thank you very much 
I DO regret not recording more Feud '94, though.