Game Show Broadcasts On Regular TV

[TimK2003]

With the addition of OtC & Balderdash to the PAX schedule, most markets can receive 3 consecutive hours of game shows on regular TV channels 5 days a week..  

6PM ==> Weakest Link (PAX)
630 ==> Shop Til You Drop (PAX)
7PM - 8PM  ==> Wheel/Jeopardy (in most local markets) or Feud/Weakest Link reruns on PAX
8PM ==> On The Cover (PAX)
830 ==>  Balderdash (PAX)

4 Hours on Thursdays if you include

9-10P ==> Studio 7 (WB)

When was the last time this much game show programming was seen consecutively over most of the country on *regular* TV stations and not cable?  I think that one has to go back to the late 80s/early 90s daytime for the 3+ straight  hours.

(I don't count Millionaire or any of the reality shows as either a) they were weekly and not daily shows and/or b) they were nightly shows only for a short period of time a.k.a "special weeks").

[Don Howard]

I'm thinking March 24, 1989 was the last time a minimum of three straight hours were offered on network programming on a regular basis. All times Eastern:
10am on NBC $ale of the Century with a special guest appearance by President Bush
10am on CBS Family Feud
10:30am on NBC Classic Concentration
10:30am on CBS Card Sharks
11am on NBC Wheel Of Fortune
11am on CBS The Price Is Right
11:30am on NBC Win, Lose or Draw
11:30am on CBS the second half of The Price Is Right
12noon on NBC Super Password
12:30pm on NBC Scrabble

[Jimmy Owen]

I'm glad you said "most" markets.  In Flint-Sag-BC MI, we have neither a PAX or WB affil.  We also are without UPN (but it can be seen on cable from Detroit).  We can't even get WB on cable because our mid-60ish market is too large to qualify for WB100+.