[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'240665\' date=\'May 11 2010, 05:40 PM\'][quote name=\'tyshaun1\' post=\'240627\' date=\'May 10 2010, 10:23 PM\']Besides, there have been plenty of examples of short-lived shows airing slightly more than 13 or 26 weeks, such as Blockbusters '87 which was getting creamed up against Card Sharks by the way[/quote]Which leads me to ask...how much sway did packagers have when it came to time slots? If you have two of your own shows competing against one another, wouldn't it be less expensive to simply air one; thus saving on production costs, salaries, etc.?
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Generally you would never have a Goodson show competing with a Goodson show. That was easy to accomplish between 63 or so and 72 when CBS had no morning games and between 69 and 78 when there were no Goodson shows on NBC. IIRC, ABC didn't have any Goodson shows in daytime between the end of the orig. TPIR in 65 and Password in 71. When all three networks started doing business with G-T, it became a little harder to avoid competing with themselves. The coincidental (ironic?) thing was that Bill Rafferty was competing in the morning against the daytime version of a show he concurrently hosted in nighttime syndication.