[quote name=\'toddyo\' date=\'Jul 3 2004, 11:27 PM\']Music clearance?
Gimme a break. GSN probably pays the normal ASCAP/BMI license. With that, they could play anything. The songs used were used with permission of the composer.[/quote]
It's my understanding that the music clearance issues are the obligation of the production company. MGP took care of all music clearance issues before the G-T/MGP library was shipped to GSN--and the original music on those shows is almost entirely owned by Fremantle in the first place.
As stated many times before, the reason for the credits squeezebacks is purely and simply to promo programming and catch the viewers' eye before they reach for the remote and change the channel. That's the reason for all squeezebacks and split screens in the first place, and it's just a more intrusive version of the network booth announcer reading promos over the credits music, as they did for years and years on the broadcast networks. Most people don't give a flying fig about credits, unfortunately.
When it's bad is when GSN zips into the squeezeback before we get the outtakes at the end of "Squares" or on "Street Smarts." They don't notice that, but they don't squeezeback on "Kenny vs. Spenny" because the humiliation plays out over the credits. Strange.
Which leads me to something else--shouldn't the production companies on originals expect that their logos are shown full-screen? If I were Mark Cronin, I wouldn't be happy that the Mindless logo is down there in the corner on "Extreme Dodgeball"'s crawl--although, personally, not having to hear that musical signature (the work of Jon "Piano Boy" Ernst, I assume) is OK by me.