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Chelsea Thrasher

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« Reply #60 on: March 13, 2008, 08:05:20 PM »
GSN operates independently from Sony Pictures Television, and it has since at least the first part of the decade (not sure about before) when Liberty Media bought 50% of the network from Sony. Ergo, because they're now no longer under the same umbrella, anything they want from Sony they have to lease out in exactly the same fashion as any other network.
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« Reply #61 on: March 14, 2008, 05:42:02 AM »
And this hardly unusual.  At one point, my company (the ones behind allmusic.com) was owned by a music distributor.  Yet we still paid them to get the CDs we used to collect the data.

Another subtle distinction -- I think after the deal went down -- you noticed the amount of free publicity anything Sony sort of disappeared and GSN was no longer plugged at the end of Wheel and Jeopardy.


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Clay Zambo

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« Reply #62 on: March 14, 2008, 10:51:40 AM »
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'181298\' date=\'Mar 14 2008, 05:42 AM\']
Another subtle distinction -- I think after the deal went down -- you noticed the amount of free publicity anything Sony sort of disappeared and GSN was no longer plugged at the end of Wheel and Jeopardy.
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Hadn't thought about that, but it did occur to me that if the Sony/GSN ties were tighter, there'd be Sony flatscreens on the "GSN Live" set.
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« Reply #63 on: March 14, 2008, 02:35:30 PM »
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Normally your eye-rollers at least make a bit of sense; but I'm legitimately lost here. The idea that a company owning the rights to run a product not being able to because they can't pay themselves enough is too bizarre to contemplate. :)
He was trying to convey a sense of irony in his post, Travis, but didn't take into account Liberty Media's involvement.

How did a piece of work like this get off the drawing board in the first place? All you have to do is listen to a description of the format and the first question that comes to mind is, "How does the audience get involved?".
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« Reply #64 on: April 10, 2008, 07:16:59 PM »
I saw one episode of this.  Six playings of Double Prices on a Price is Right episode would dwarf this garbage.  People pushing buttons.  Big yip.  That's one reason why I detested "Jumble", "Shuffle" & "Boggle" on The Family Channel back in the early 90s.  Those shows, the players just pressed buttons.  No interaction with the host.  It was just people pressing buttons basically.  But even that had SOME play along factor, although not much.  

Some days, more days now than ever before, and maybe this will sound like the typical middle-aged man syndrome speaking here, it seems true that less is more, at least where TV is concerned.  So many channels, it has truly watered down any quality content, and shows like Price is Right that do have quality, get eroded away by more and more commercial time every season it would seem.  

In that regard, I long for the old days.  It seemed you really had to have a sensational or original idea to get put on the air.  Now with 9 zillion channels of dreck to choose from, this is what we end up with.  Just terrible.  How much is enough?  About 30 seconds of the program, that's how much is enough.

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« Reply #65 on: April 11, 2008, 12:08:49 PM »
[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'183768\' date=\'Apr 10 2008, 06:16 PM\']
In that regard, I long for the old days.  It seemed you really had to have a sensational or original idea to get put on the air.  Now with 9 zillion channels of dreck to choose from, this is what we end up with.  Just terrible.  
[/quote]You make it sound as if everything that aired "back in the day" was pure gold.  That just isn't true.
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Clay Zambo

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« Reply #66 on: April 11, 2008, 12:11:04 PM »
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[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'183768\' date=\'Apr 10 2008, 06:16 PM\']
In that regard, I long for the old days.  It seemed you really had to have a sensational or original idea to get put on the air.  Now with 9 zillion channels of dreck to choose from, this is what we end up with.  Just terrible.  
[/quote]You make it sound as if everything that aired "back in the day" was pure gold.  That just isn't true.
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Hey, don't be hatin' on Blankety Blanks!  It had the spiffy magic spinning card hickey!
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« Reply #67 on: April 11, 2008, 01:37:54 PM »
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'183809\' date=\'Apr 11 2008, 09:11 AM\']
Hey, don't be hatin' on Blankety Blanks!  It had the spiffy magic spinning card hickey!
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And I really liked Spinoff.

Mark needs to learn that opinions can be subjective.
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« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2008, 02:38:30 PM »
Back in the day, if someone brought a concept that stank up the place like How Much Is Enough? to a network development executive, the executive would politely hear the pitch and then escort that person to the egress with a sincere "Give us a call if you have any more ideas". The executive would then drive over to the offices of Bob Stewart or Goodson-Todman or Heatter-Quigley to look at an office run-thru they had worked up in house. Meanwhile, the executive's calendar was filled with appointments with the likes of Jay Wolpert or Larry Hovis who were fairly lined up around the block with ideas to bring in.

The executive would then ponder to himself, "Why don't we bring back Concentration?".
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« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2008, 07:34:55 PM »
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'183809\' date=\'Apr 11 2008, 09:11 AM\']
Hey, don't be hatin' on Blankety Blanks!  It had the spiffy magic spinning card hickey!
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And I really liked Spinoff.
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But apparently we can all agree that The Neighbors really was bad.
/no argument here

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« Reply #70 on: April 16, 2008, 08:45:36 PM »
[quote name=\'davidhammett\' post=\'183840\' date=\'Apr 11 2008, 04:34 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183816\' date=\'Apr 11 2008, 01:37 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'183809\' date=\'Apr 11 2008, 09:11 AM\']
Hey, don't be hatin' on Blankety Blanks!  It had the spiffy magic spinning card hickey!
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And I really liked Spinoff.
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But apparently we can all agree that The Neighbors really was bad.
/no argument here
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No way, man. Anything the Reeginator hosts is t3h AWESUMEZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!11!1ONE

/Has never seen The Neighbors.

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« Reply #71 on: April 17, 2008, 02:39:17 AM »
You've never seen "The Neighbors"?  Reege was good.  I enjoyed the first week or so, it was kinda fun.  After a while, you realized you couldn't play along, and it became the same thing day after day.  Great set, though.  Much better set than HMIE.
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« Reply #72 on: April 17, 2008, 12:16:46 PM »
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You've never seen "The Neighbors"? Reege was good. I enjoyed the first week or so, it was kinda fun. After a while, you realized you couldn't play along, and it became the same thing day after day. Great set, though. Much better set than HMIE.

I didn't mind it (just about ANY game show to my young eyes looked good back then) but I liked the show that replaced it on the ABC schedule a lot better....to bad THAT didn't last a bit longer.
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