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Don Howard

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« Reply #90 on: August 28, 2004, 02:53:42 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 01:46 PM\'] I stopped watching GMA after Jim Peck wrapped up his week as guest host. [/quote]
 Peck left GMA?

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« Reply #91 on: August 28, 2004, 03:01:22 PM »
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:53 PM\'] Peck left GMA? [/quote]
 Yeah, Don, he did! Where have *you* been? :)

Don Howard

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« Reply #92 on: August 28, 2004, 03:30:31 PM »
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:53 PM\'] Peck left GMA? [/quote]
Yeah, Don, he did! Where have *you* been? :) [/quote]
 Did they change the set after he left?

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« Reply #93 on: August 28, 2004, 03:38:06 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 01:46 PM\'] I stopped watching GMA after Jim Peck wrapped up his week as guest host. [/quote]
 I stopped watching after GMA was renamed GMFM, or good morning fall man
(ducks)

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« Reply #94 on: August 28, 2004, 03:54:30 PM »
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 03:38 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 01:46 PM\'] I stopped watching GMA after Jim Peck wrapped up his week as guest host. [/quote]
I stopped watching after GMA was renamed GMFM, or good morning fall man
(ducks) [/quote]
 I heard that TV stations and/or networks may be only a year or two away from airing different ads in different homes.  I could just imagine ABC renaming the show for each potential viewer.  "Next on WLAJ ABC53, it's Good Morning Matt Ottinger", or "Next on WOKR ABC13, it's Good Morning David Zinkin", or something like that.

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« Reply #95 on: August 28, 2004, 04:10:58 PM »
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:30 PM\'] [quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 02:53 PM\'] Peck left GMA? [/quote]
Yeah, Don, he did! Where have *you* been? :) [/quote]
Did they change the set after he left? [/quote]
That they did.  It's now called AMERICA!:  The All-New Good Morning.

Brandon Brooks
« Last Edit: August 28, 2004, 04:11:22 PM by Brandon Brooks »

adamjk

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« Reply #96 on: August 28, 2004, 04:20:25 PM »
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Peck left GMA?

Yep, he left about the same time that Woolery left Wheel.

Don Howard

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« Reply #97 on: August 28, 2004, 04:24:48 PM »
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 03:20 PM\']
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Peck left GMA?

Yep, he left about the same time that Woolery left Wheel. [/quote]
 Woolery left Wheel? You mean that weatherman is staying?

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« Reply #98 on: August 28, 2004, 07:46:33 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 01:46 PM\'] I stopped watching GMA after Jim Peck wrapped up his week as guest host. [/quote]
 You didn't watch the week in August 1994 where Trebek guest hosted. He had a segment with Peter Marshall, Jim Lange, and Gene Rayburn as guests.

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« Reply #99 on: August 28, 2004, 10:39:20 PM »
[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'Aug 28 2004, 12:38 PM\'] I stopped watching after GMA was renamed GMFM, or good morning fall man
(ducks) [/quote]
 Wow.
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CaseyAbell

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« Reply #100 on: August 29, 2004, 10:49:13 AM »
Just saw a puff piece about Bil Dwyer that referred to Extreme Dodgeball as a "game show/sporting event." Guess the writer hasn't been reading these threads, or she would have known about the Badlands of Endless Dispute:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazett...ing/9522973.htm

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« Reply #101 on: August 29, 2004, 11:00:05 AM »
There is more than just that error in the piece. The writer also calls the network "Game Show Network," not GSN.  This is tantamount to calling Spike "The National Network."
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Let's Make a Deal was the first show to air on Buzzr. 6/1/15 8PM.

Casey Buck

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« Reply #102 on: August 29, 2004, 02:44:48 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Aug 29 2004, 08:00 AM\'] This is tantamount to calling Spike "The National Network." [/quote]
 Or worse, "The Nashville Network". :)

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« Reply #103 on: August 29, 2004, 10:10:28 PM »
Well, actually she does use "GSN" later in the story. The point is that most people couldn't care less about our endless disputes over what is and is not a game show. Kinda depressing and reassuring at the same time. Depressing because we spend a lot of time splitting hairs over something most people would just laugh over if they knew about it at all. Reassuring because most people don't care to split this hair so fine.
« Last Edit: August 29, 2004, 10:14:37 PM by CaseyAbell »

michaellinn

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« Reply #104 on: August 29, 2004, 10:21:57 PM »
I wonder what GSN's definition of "game show" is. After all, the folks at GSN are the ones who changed the name of their channel from Game Show Network to GSN - the Network for Games. Anyway, I could care less myself, LOL. This dispute reminds me of those Viva paper towel commercials from years ago. Viva: is it a paper towel or isn't it? There would be a huge question mark on the packaging. Maybe GSN should put a question mark in its logo.