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Dbacksfan12

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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2015, 03:22:48 PM »
Quote from: DjohnsonCB on January 20, 2015, 02:30:15 PM
Dear BUZZR TV: Please, please, PLEASE pony up the costs for having the 2-inch-quad tapes of 1975's Spin-Off with Jim Lange digitized, then put them on your network!
With a library of over 40,000 episodes that Fremantle has to pay very little in the way of fees, why would they pick some obscure 13-week show and pay the transfer costs for a crappy format that very few people remember?
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2015, 03:27:37 PM »
By the way, is there any reason to believe at this point Fremantle won't use the non-G/T shows they own? LMAD has been mentioned in the press releases. They also own the Carruthers library (which does anything exist in its entirety besides PYL?) and the Grundy library.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2015, 03:40:25 PM »
I hope some of the non Fox O&O's end up picking this... specifically Pittsburgh's Sinclair-owned WPGH
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2015, 04:01:50 PM »
Quote from: Modor on January 20, 2015, 03:22:48 PM
why would Fremantle pick some obscure 13-week show and pay the transfer costs for a crappy format that very few people remember?
Because he wants it and it isn't his money being spent.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2015, 04:03:52 PM »
Quote from: DjohnsonCB on January 20, 2015, 02:30:15 PM
Dear BUZZR TV: Please, please, PLEASE pony up the costs for having the 2-inch-quad tapes of 1975's Spin-Off with Jim Lange digitized, then put them on your network!

Thanks for your call! We'll try to get that one on the air for you real soon.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2015, 04:11:14 PM »
It's not April Fools Day, so this must be legit. I'm guessing this also means should they decide to run old shows of Barker's TPIR on Monty's LMAD, there's nothing CBS head Les Moonves can do about it.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2015, 04:52:00 PM »
I'm looking forward to this...at least eventually. I don't think our FOX station has a subchannel, but it would be a very welcome addition in due time.

Quote from: DjohnsonCB on January 20, 2015, 02:30:15 PM
Dear BUZZR TV: Please, please, PLEASE pony up the costs for having the 2-inch-quad tapes of 1975's Spin-Off with Jim Lange digitized, then put them on your network!
It's time to let this one go. I doubt anyone outside this forum knows what it is, and the OP said Fremantle shows, which I don't believe this was.

Fond childhood memory does not mean it has rerun value, esp. if literally only 0.001% of the U.S. population knows what Spin-Off was.

/I think that's right
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2015, 04:56:13 PM »
Wolfram Alpha sez that's about 3,200 people, which is close enough. Impressive, Snake.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2015, 05:20:13 PM »
...Wow. This is in fact news I can use.

Hopefully Debmar-Mercury can get this out to more of the country, as I'd happily pony up for a basic cable package (I don't really have a solid over-the-air antenna) for this. :)
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2015, 06:30:20 PM »
Quote from: TLEberle on January 20, 2015, 04:56:13 PM
Wolfram Alpha sez that's about 3,200 people, which is close enough. Impressive, Snake.
Excellent, thanks. That settles that. :-)

Back to the new channel, an OTA channel is great, although I figured a streaming channel would happen first, on Roku or Apple TV, et al. The OTA is much better though since it's free. ;-P

Also kinda thought one of the older OTA channels would air reruns of a game show first, something more recent (say, the last 5-10 years).
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2015, 06:56:20 PM »
^Technically, that's already happened on Bounce.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2015, 07:17:37 PM »
Ooh, forgot about Bounce.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2015, 07:20:58 PM »
Quote from: Dan88 on January 20, 2015, 05:20:13 PM
...Wow. This is in fact news I can use.

Hopefully Debmar-Mercury can get this out to more of the country, as I'd happily pony up for a basic cable package (I don't really have a solid over-the-air antenna) for this. :)

My gut reaction to this that you should pony up for a solid over-the-air antenna.  Something seriously like an omni-directional in the $60 - $100 range.  Then again, I live two miles from downtown.  YMMV.
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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2015, 08:43:33 PM »
Here's the Fox O&O markets:

Atlanta
Austin
Charlotte
Chicago
Dallas
Detroit
Houston
LA
Minneapolis
NYC
Orlando/Gainsville
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Francisco
Tampa
Washington DC

So it's a good start (When we get closer to a start date, I might think about getting an antenna- I'm in the DC market). Maybe after NATPE we'll see some other markets come in.

I do wonder what this will do to GSN in the long run- admittedly they don't have a lot of Fremantle material on now, but they probably have enough sources to work with even if they lost access to the library.

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Re: Fremantle launching game show digital channel
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2015, 09:20:26 PM »
Pretty excited to hear this news. Get the best of both worlds, as I do like some of GSN's current content, and we get more of the classics elsewhere. I do fear it means some shows will get lost in the shuffle for a long time, if not forever, where they'll join the B&E library and most of Stewart in the dustbins. Who knows. None of us completely, that's for sure.
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