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Passepartout

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How many years did it take for GSN?
« on: March 24, 2005, 08:27:11 PM »
I was wondering how many years did it take for you all to get the GSN on your cable company. It took me seven long but very waitful years to get GSN. How long did it take for you all to get GSN?
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Gsguy

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How many years did it take for GSN?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2005, 08:42:11 PM »
Still waiting since the day it came out.  That's cablevision for you

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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2005, 08:49:10 PM »
I had to watch it on DirecTV until August 2003.  That's when Comcast of Gadsden, AL picked it up.  What a great day that was!

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How many years did it take for GSN?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2005, 09:08:07 PM »
[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 07:27 PM\']I was wondering how many years did it take for you all to get the GSN on your cable company. It took me seven long but very waitful years to get GSN. How long did it take for you all to get GSN?
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How many years did it take for GSN?
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2005, 09:18:57 PM »
5 years 11 months and 14 days on Comcast cable here at the Jersey Shore(11/15/2000 it debuted on basic cable)

Stevek83

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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2005, 09:24:59 PM »
Close to 6 years. I got it October 2000, probably a few months after they took of TPIR and Feud 94 :(
« Last Edit: March 24, 2005, 09:25:39 PM by Stevek83 »

aaron sica

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How many years did it take for GSN?
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2005, 09:28:37 PM »
[quote name=\'Stevek83\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:24 PM\']Close to 6 years. I got it October 2000, probably a few months after they took of TPIR and Feud 94 :(
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Actually, Feud 94 was only on the GSN schedule for the duration of "The Dark Period", which ran from 10/11/97 to 4/18/98.

And, to answer your question, Shelby, I first got GSN not with cable, but with DISH Network on 11/5/96.
« Last Edit: March 24, 2005, 09:31:39 PM by aaron sica »

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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2005, 09:48:19 PM »
Exactly 5 years from GSN's launch, on December 1, 1999.

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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2005, 09:55:59 PM »
I was fortunate enough to be able to watch it from Day One on one of my school's satellite dishes.  Being the district Telecommunications Coordinator certainly helped.  In fact, I still have the original 24-hour marathon featuring what they said was one episode from every show in their library at that time.  Turned out they had a few others they didn't tell us about on that first day, and of course they added lots more since.
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Chelsea Thrasher

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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2005, 11:00:49 PM »
The cable provider here (Mediacom) started providing digital cable here on 9-July 2001, got it/GSN on same day.  [Don't ask how I remember the day].   Didn't live in a place that could accomidate satellite service [due largely to terrain] until 2003, so they were never options.

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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2005, 11:20:32 PM »
Cablevision of Raritan Valley, NJ picked it up around Spring 2003, IIRC.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2005, 11:42:09 PM »
Our cable company, was called Community Cable (now called ETC), had it when they first introduced digital cable, which was, IIRC, 1999.  However, I didn't get it until August 2000, when my parents separated and I lived with my mom and moved to a new place.
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Don Howard

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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2005, 11:44:39 PM »
Thanks to friends with satellite dishes who didn't mind recording things for me, I started gathering a collection in 1997.
It's been in my home thanks to digital cable (yes, I upgraded my monthly bill by many dollars just to get the channel) in early spring 2001.
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2005, 11:46:33 PM »
On cable since '97. I've been fortunate enough to have it on cable every place I've moved to since.

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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2005, 12:30:23 AM »
Still not on basic, but it is on Cox digital (no, it's not a porno channel), and has been since c. 1997 or 98. We got digital in May 2002, and I got to experience one of GSN's best periods in recent years (Breakfast With The Stars, the "Vertivision" block, the originals). We went back to basic in summer 2003, and uploaded to DirecTV (and more GSN) in May 2004.
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