Author Topic: Late September Schedule Changes (Read 10194 times)

LetsGoYankees · « **on:** August 31, 2013, 09:23:52 AM »

Changes for the week of September 9th:

*Minute to Win It (Ohno) takes the 8pm and 9pm hours on Tuesday nights with new episodes

*Minute to Win It (Ohno) gets all rerun slots The Chase had, with the exception of Saturday 2pm

Changes week of September 16th through October:

*5th Grader drops off the schedule completely, John O\'Hurley Family Feud gets an additional hour weekdays at 1pm and Ohno Minute to Win It gains Sunday nights from 6pm-10pm.

*Minute to Win It (Ohno) will air Tuesdays from 7-9pm and 10pm-12am

*The Chase reruns only Tuesday nights at 9pm and Midnight

*Baggage will air Friday nights 7-9pm; Ohno MTWI Fridays 9-11pm.

Looks like GSN has lost the rights to 5th Grader. Doubt Foxworthy\'s FOX quizzer is just \"getting a rest\".

Family Feud is simply insane. All post-2002 versions take up more than two-fifths (40%) of the entire schedule now. I mean, I know FF does so well, but this is a lot.

No word on different leases for classics.

Advance schedules through October 20th at GameShowFollies

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2013, 03:03:53 PM »

Family Feud is simply insane. All post-2002 versions take up more than two-fifths (40%) of the entire schedule now. I mean, I know FF does so well, but this is a lot.

You own a grocery store. Heinz Ketchup sells well. In fact, 80% of the ketchup bought in your store is the Heinz brand. Are you really going to devote more shelf space to Del Monte and Hunts when your consumers want Heinz? Take a basic economics class, would ya?

Flerbert419 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2013, 05:24:49 PM »

^ That seems like switching out old Feud for new.

This seems like not offering mustard to make more room for ketchup.

Chelsea Thrasher · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2013, 09:01:54 PM »

^ That seems like switching out old Feud for new.

This seems like not offering mustard to make more room for ketchup.

To borrow from and expand the food metaphor:

You have a grocery store. You sell 50% more ketchup than mustard. To maximize profit, you devote more shelf space to ketchup than mustard. One day, you discover you can no longer sell mayonnaise. Given a finite amount of shelf space, what do you stock in it\'s place? Obvious answer, here: More ketchup, more money. You COULD try worcestershire sauce, but odds are pretty good ketchup would deliver a greater profit.

WarioBarker · « **Reply #4 on:** September 01, 2013, 02:34:18 AM »

You have a grocery store. You sell 50% more mustard than ketchup. To maximize profit, you devote more shelf space to ketchup than mustard.

I might be missing something here, but if mustard is selling better than ketchup then wouldn\'t the better course of action be to devote more shelf space to mustard?

catnap1972 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 01, 2013, 08:05:10 AM »

\"What? You only sell ketchup now? Where\'d the rest of the groceries go? K later then!\"

clemon79 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 01, 2013, 01:10:19 PM »

One day, you discover you can no longer sell mayonnaise.

People buy mayonnaise in stores?

/stick blenders are your friends

Winkfan · « **Reply #7 on:** September 01, 2013, 09:39:57 PM »

Well, at least they're leaving the AM line-up intact, for now.

Cordially,
Tammy

JakeT · « **Reply #8 on:** September 02, 2013, 04:27:28 PM »

^ That seems like switching out old Feud for new.

This seems like not offering mustard to make more room for ketchup.

To borrow from and expand the food metaphor:

You have a grocery store. You sell 50% more ketchup than mustard. To maximize profit, you devote more shelf space to ketchup than mustard. One day, you discover you can no longer sell mayonnaise. Given a finite amount of shelf space, what do you stock in it\'s place? Obvious answer, here: More ketchup, more money. You COULD try worcestershire sauce, but odds are pretty good ketchup would deliver a greater profit.

And this would be very sound marketing strategy if you were only focused on just the customers who shopped at your store for ketchup alone...but there really aren\'t that many of them...one of the biggest reasons nearly all of the customers who shop at your store likely do so is that you offer them a greater variety of products than your competition, allowing them to purchase a much greater assortment of your goods and enjoy \"one-stop shopping\" with you, rather than having to come to your store for ketchup but then go down the street to your competitor for their mustard and mayonnaise, risking losing that customer entirely to your competitor who offers them that variety, rather than trying to plan their retirement on all those sweet ketchup profits...

A grocery store can\'t depend one profitable product to make them successful...and...a TV channel can\'t depend on one single program to provide them with frequent loyal viewers...

AND CAN\'T SOMEONE DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE SALE OF MIRACLE WHIP ILLEGAL? THAT STUFF IS JUST PLAIN OLE NASTY!

JakeT

TLEberle · « **Reply #9 on:** September 02, 2013, 04:40:15 PM »

I would imagine that part of the Feud strategy is that it is instantly recognizable by young and old. Anyone who owns a television and stops on the show will know what it is, and since the barrier to entry is so low why not program lots of it.

PYLdude · « **Reply #10 on:** September 02, 2013, 05:02:13 PM »

Lots of people know what porn is too. You don\'t see stations scheduling that several times a day.

TLEberle · « **Reply #11 on:** September 02, 2013, 05:16:44 PM »

I openly reject and mock your counter-point.

Pshaw.

PYLdude · « **Reply #12 on:** September 02, 2013, 05:23:16 PM »

I openly reject and mock your counter-point.

Pshaw.

What\'s wrong with it?

The point is that just because you can air something because people know it doesn\'t mean you should. By that logic NBC\'s overreliance on DOND and ABC\'s overreliance on Millionaire shouldn\'t have affected the ratings of those two shows in any way because enough people should have been tuning in for the name value alone.

clemon79 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 02, 2013, 05:24:51 PM »

Lots of people know what porn is too. You don\'t see stations scheduling that several times a day.

Seriously? You really, actually think this is a valid comparison?

jjman920 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 02, 2013, 05:49:09 PM »

Lots of people know what porn is too. You don\'t see stations scheduling that several times a day.

Yes, you don\'t. Not because they don\'t want to, because some stupid commission in D.C. says they can\'t.

I don\'t know what logistics there are in getting current episodes of The Price is Right on GSN, but given that it is even more recognizable than Family Feud, I wonder how it would fare on the network today and if GSN would rely on it heavily.