Multi-network shows

[Unrealtor]

I got to thinking this morning about how, over the summer, Match Game is going to be joining the ranks of the shows that have aired on three different broadcast networks, and started trying to compile a list of what shows had also achieved this feat. It's still a pretty short list and some big-name shows haven't ever made it. What I came up with was:

ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox: Let's Make a Deal

ABC, CBS, NBC: Match Game, To Tell the Truth (if/when the ABC version airs), The Price Is Right, Password, Family Feud

Have I made any obvious omissions?

[Dbacksfan12]

Depends on how you want to define network, I suppose, but Beat the Clock aired on ABC, CBS, and PAX.

I got to thinking this morning about how, over the summer, Match Game is going to be joining the ranks of the shows that have aired on three different broadcast networks

Match Game achieved the feat back in 1990.

[aaron sica]

Pantomime Quiz/Stump The Stars also aired on ABC, CBS, and NBC.

[The Ol' Guy]

Going back a ways, Masquerade Party made all the alphabet nets, and after Down You Go left its home base, DuMont, it had short runs on CBS, ABC and finally expired on NBC.

[Jimmy Owen]

Play Your Hunch made the rounds of the three networks in a short period of time between 58 and 60. It was on all three in 1959.  CBS, then ABC, then NBC where it settled in for a few years.

[Winkfan]

Pantomime Quiz/Stump The Stars also aired on ABC, CBS, and NBC.

It was also on Dumont; and in syndication during 1969-70.

Cordially,
Tammy

[Kevin Prather]

So I'll ask what show has been on the greatest number of networks, not counting reruns? Is four the record? Any show made five?

[clemon79]

Here are all of the broadcast networks I can think of. Like, ever.

NBC
CBS
ABC
DuMont
Fox
UPN
WB
CW

That's a grand total of eight, there is a thirty-year window between when DuMont went off the air and any of the last four started up, and the last three have an asterisk because the last one is effectively the result of merging the previous two.

How do you even *get* a list of five potential ones, given those necessary constraints? For added fun, find me a plausible set that a) doesn't include a) all of the three majors or b) both UPN and WB. (And even at that Buffy Teh Vampire Slayer is the only show I can think of that aired on both of the latter two, but I admit to not being remotely invested enough to make a huge effort to research it.)

(You wanna count MyNetwork? Fine, count MyNetwork. It's not gonna help you.)

[parliboy]

Here are all of the broadcast networks I can think of. Like, ever.

Question: what's the difference between a broadcast network and BUZZR?

[clemon79]

Question: what's the difference between a broadcast network and BUZZR?

BUZZR doesn't run a single program that *isn't* a rerun.

[Unrealtor]

Depends on how you want to define network, I suppose, but Beat the Clock aired on ABC, CBS, and PAX.

I got to thinking this morning about how, over the summer, Match Game is going to be joining the ranks of the shows that have aired on three different broadcast networks

Match Game achieved the feat back in 1990.

D'oh. When I was going over the timeline in my head, I remembered the 60s, the 70s, and 1998, but completely forgot about the '90-'91 version.

[Unrealtor]

Question: what's the difference between a broadcast network and BUZZR?

BUZZR doesn't run a single program that *isn't* a rerun.

When I was composing the question, Chris' list was basically what I was thinking of by the term "broadcast network", though there may need to be some kind of retronym qualifier added in the new world of turnkey programming for digital subchannels like Buzzr.

For the sake of this question, let's say that a broadcast network...
- Produces or commissions its own original programming
- Partners with local stations for over-the-air transmission of its programming according to a schedule it dictates
- Has a unifying brand for its slate of programs
- Generally has its programs on a station's primary feed

[Chuck Sutton]

I think Pax certainly met the definition.  Although it had a few original game shows. As someone pointed out it only helps Beat the Clock get to 3 networks and Supermarket Sweep get to 2 broadcast networks.

Bounce probably now meets the definition but the only original game show it had was the short lived Bus Stop Game,