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dheine1971

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If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« on: October 26, 2015, 08:15:43 AM »
...here's what I would say to him about improving the BUZZR digital subchannel network and its RERUN ABUSE:

"SIR, THIS IS FINAL! EITHER YOU STOP DOING RERUN ABUSE TO THE SHOWS ON BUZZR AND ADD NEW TO BUZZR EPISODES TO THE GAME SHOWS YOU AIR AND STOP AIRING SHOWS IN REVERSE ORDER OR ELSE!!!"
(Though he might reply "OR ELSE WHAT?"and/or maybe kick me in the pants out of the office or something like that. - Think of in the Blondie comic strip when Dagwood asks his boss for a raise in occassion and never gets one!)

Boy, I hope with this constant RERUN ABUSE BUZZR has Fremantle files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy or something like that and possibly have Fremantle make the BUZZR digital subchannel go out of business and cease for good after 6 months on the air in about 35%-40% of the country next month (November 2015, around Thanksgiving)! And if the BUZZR channel goes kaput, would that benefit GSN? But what are the odds of this?

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2015, 08:23:13 AM »
Oh boy....you again? Didn't you say you were never coming back?

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2015, 09:51:45 AM »
I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2015, 11:28:58 AM »
I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
THIS.

I get the rerun abuse is annoying, but as has been mentioned before, it could be they're still finding their footing until more affiliates come aboard.

Much as I hate this argument, turning the channel is always an option, as opposed to making such crazy rants.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2015, 01:01:24 PM »
Of all the things going on in the world right now...

Mind you, this is the guy (the OP, not you) who gets upset when his game shows get pre-empted for important news.

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2015, 01:04:44 PM »
Mind you, this is the guy (the OP, not you) who gets upset when his game shows get pre-empted for important news.
And the guy who makes me have to add "-abuse" whenever I search for Buzzr tidbits on Twitter because I'm tired of seeing him whine about it every damned day.

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2015, 01:10:48 PM »
I would tell him there's not enough commercials with Pop Tarts in their old packaging, dammit.

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2015, 01:37:34 PM »
Oh christ, this doofus? On the GSN Buzz boards back when those were around a few years ago he would never shut the hell up about swearing up and down that GSN was going to "cease to exist" because of "rerun abuse" and every month he would announce a new death knell for the network. Every month when he was proven wrong he'd just make the same post and just change the month when GSN would "cease for good". It got so tiring that the mods, who almost never banned anyone (and there were some really ridiculous users on that board), banned him because they were fed up with him.

One of his other favorite buzz phrases is "rally round the flag", whatever that means. I remember him because he was annoying as hell and they didn't have an Ignore/Block feature on those boards. Has he really been around for longer than I thought? Dang.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2015, 02:10:04 PM »
I would thank him/her for the network and hope one of our stations picks up the channel.
THIS.
Seconded.

As for you, Heine...I think there's a (semi?-)good topic of discussion in your mess of a post, namely
And if the BUZZR channel goes kaput, would that benefit GSN?
Probably, probably not. Buzzr and GSN cater to two very different kinds of viewers anyway, plus the former is an over-the-air network and the latter's cable-only. I don't think it's stiff competition, mind you, and I really don't think Buzzr going down would benefit GSN all that much anyway (or the other way around, unlikely as that may be).

But what are the odds of this?
If Fremantle doesn't think Buzzr's making a profit (or enough of one to justify the costs of running it), they'll shut it down. It's that simple. It'd suck for the classics fans, but it's a business first and foremost.

That's the only two sentences of yours I found even partially worth responding to. Otherwise...shut up, Heine. Seriously.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2015, 08:16:16 PM »
But what are the odds of this?
If Fremantle doesn't think Buzzr's making a profit (or enough of one to justify the costs of running it), they'll shut it down. It's that simple. It'd suck for the classics fans, but it's a business first and foremost.

That's the only two sentences of yours I found even partially worth responding to. Otherwise...shut up, Heine. Seriously.


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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2015, 08:24:50 PM »
I would not be able to pick the head honcho of BUZZR out of a lineup. And if I did I wouldn't have anything to say to him because I don't get that channel. Yes, it's kinda dumb that BUZZR is rerunning things over-and-over again with seemingly no explanation for it. If you don't like it, don't watch/don't buy that cable tier.  What's unfortunate is that almost everyone in this thread has a modicum of sense and knows these things, and knows better than to overdose on capital letters and exclamation points.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2015, 10:00:01 PM »
don't buy that cable tier.

Herein lies the punchline: it's a digital subchannel. Someone gets it on their cable if one of the local channels in the market picks it up, or you pull it in with an antenna. IT COSTS NOTHING.

Yet Entitled McPopTart here still whines.
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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2015, 10:06:11 PM »
...here's what I would say to him about improving the BUZZR digital subchannel network and its RERUN ABUSE:

It is wayyyyyy too early in the week to be butthurt.

However, I'd like a pop-tart though.

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Re: If you met the president/head of BUZZR...
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2015, 10:12:03 PM »
Wait...Heine wasn't banhammered? I was under the impression he was one of the first to receive the honor.
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