Buzzr Q4 2024

[MSTieScott]

This week, Buzzr is featuring Halloween programming in its 12:00 noon, 1:00 p.m., and 2:00 p.m. Eastern time slots, focusing primarily on The Great Halloween Fright Fight.

Once November 1 comes around, it looks like the schedule is changing. Not only do all three of those time slots get handed over to The Great Christmas Light Fight (starting November 1, mind you), but prime time is revamped as well. 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern also become The Great Christmas Light Fight, 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Eastern become Classic Concentration (early 1988), and 12:00 midnight Eastern becomes Card Sharks (late 1987). The same titles appear in the same time slots during the weekend, although Classic Concentration and Card Sharks are from different years.

Those changes hold through at least November 8, so it looks like that's the new schedule. Hope you like watching people decorate for Christmas!

[davidhammett]

Blech.

[Matt Ottinger]

Is this the first time that The Great Christmas Light Fight has aired on Buzzr?  I was astonished to see that it's been running for eleven seasons.

[snowpeck]

Is this the first time that The Great Christmas Light Fight has aired on Buzzr?  I was astonished to see that it's been running for eleven seasons.

They ran a handful of episodes a few years ago, but this is the first time it's been on the actual schedule.

[Dbacksfan12]

Bah humbug.

[KrisW73]

I'd rather watch AstroTurf grow.

[TimK2003]

Would be a better, odder fit for GSN than Buzzr

/or The Weather Channel.

[BrandonFG]

That’s a very random pickup. Don’t hate it or anything, but I don’t get it either.

[BillCullen1]

I could understand if they scheduled this on weekends, but in prime time every night?? If I was a Buzzr exec, I would have fought to move Barker's TPIR to prime time.

[chrisholland03]

If I was a Buzzr exec, I would have fought to move Barker's TPIR to prime time.

Not worth the energy as long as CBS has a remote notion of scheduling Prime Time Price.

[rwalker]

Where's the 40000 hours of shows they claimed to have?
Wait, I bet many tape are lost or degraded to poor quality. Yeah. I think they've played their cards over 9 years and there isn't much left to run

[Allstar87]

Where's the 40000 hours of shows they claimed to have?
Wait, I bet many tape are lost or degraded to poor quality. Yeah. I think they've played their cards over 9 years and there isn't much left to run

I wonder how much of an impact Mark Deetjen's passing had on the channel...I noticed that not long after he did, they cut down on the number of shows they had on the lineup, started scheduling more shows in hour-long blocks, and haven't done Lost & Fun to the same frequency as they did before. (Definitely not complaining about what they ARE showing though, '91 Classic Concentration and '84 Barker Price are still absolute delights!)

At any rate, even if they did stick to shows they already have, there's still plenty of stuff they could show. There's still oodles of Dawson Feud they've yet to air, for one. It's just a matter of converting it.

[TLEberle]

That's a pity. Obviously someone like a Bob Boden couldn't run GSN forever, but you can certainly see a line where there's acquisitions, originals, specials and such, and what has now become Warehouse Club Brand originals and largely set-it-and-forget-it.

Buzzr doesn't have originals, and they only have one conglomerate to draw from so eventually ten years on everything is going to feel stale, but there was a time where I loved having Sale of the Century as a wind-down to my day at the office, and I wonder how much they'll do. We'll find out.