[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 01:12 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 08:52 AM\']Each of the traditional networks has had at least one "megahit," three or four average performers and a few outright flops. ...
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[/quote]A few? That's an understatement.
[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 09:34 AM\']Well, how hard is it just to make NEW game shows?
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[/quote]It's been said before: we're not their target audience. Never have been, and as long as money drives this country, we never will be.
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Well, we were, back when they were on very few systems, Nielsen wasn't rating them and they were just biding their time until technology caught up with them and they would need to appeal to advertisers.
In fact, we should be lucky that the reformatting didn't occur sooner than March 2004, that Rich Cronin had at least some hope that a purer (not 100% pure, but purer) game show channel could work with the Nielsens and advertisers and that he got 2 1/2 years to give it a try before Sony came closing in on him. There are reasons why it took 15 years after ESPN and Nickelodeon started the era of specialized cable channels to get a cable game show channel going--and the genre being a hard sell with advertisers was one of them.