How many years did it take for GSN?

[mrcity]

Paragon Cable in Grapevine, TX (now Comcast) started carrying GSN on the digital lineup around March 2000--right before they took TPIR off the schedule, but as of a few months ago, GSN is on basic cable.

[cacLA8383]

it took 7 years and almost 4 months for GSN to debut on my cable system. Ironically though, exactly three years ago on this date (3/25) GSN was added to the Charter basic lineup here, and has been in the same channel slot (99) since then.

[Craig Karlberg]

My first experience with GSN came in 1998 on cable in the form of 2-week trial previews.  Then in 1999, on the same day that TechTV came on the systen, GSN debuted.  Boy, I was in game show heaven back then.  Now, it seems that heaven is getting dimmer untill at least April when GSN starts rolling out those classics in daytime again in full tilt.

[koolguy105]

[quote name=\'Gsguy\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 08:42 PM\']Still waiting since the day it came out.  That's cablevision for you

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I'm surprised you don't have GSN. I have Cablevision and have had it since December 1st, 1999 in part time form (3AM-3PM). Then on December 17, 2002 they made GSN 24 hours a day. The reason this surprises me is Cablevision usually likes to keep the channel lineups the same in all there areas.

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:48 PM\']Exactly 5 years from GSN's launch, on December 1, 1999.

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You don't happen to live in Wappingers Falls, New York do you?

[DYosua]

I had it from day 1, since it was carried on C-Band satellite.  Unfortunately, they left a while ago to move to a digital Ku-Band station.

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'koolguy105\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 06:39 AM\'][quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:48 PM\']Exactly 5 years from GSN's launch, on December 1, 1999.
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You don't happen to live in Wappingers Falls, New York do you?
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No.  Mapquest says I live about 400 miles west of Wappingers Falls.

[JayDLewis]

GSN is not available on basic cable here in New Brunswick. Only those areas where you can get digital cable have it. OF course, it is on any dish system you might have.

So 10 years and almost 4 months later...no GSN

[uncamark]

July 1998 (although what was then TCI had begun to make digital service available in Chicago in June of that year).

[bclark71]

I first got GSN in March 1997 on a free preview of the new channels Primestar was adding in May of that year.  I've had it ever since.

Since then, Primestar was swallered (as they say around these here parts) by DirecTV.

[ChuckNet]

I've had it since we got DirecTV in May 2002...a few yrs earlier would've been nice, but given the seemingly endless goodies they had back in, say, 96-97, I prolly never would've left the house...LOL

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Winkfan]

My first true exposure to GSN was through tape trades. But then in March of 2001, GSN came to my apartment, and it's still there. Although the only thing I tape now is The Name's the Same and the occasional Blockbusters on the weekend. (I'm waiting for John Hatten's return.) The channel of my choice is now Boomerang!

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the Sarah Purcell of the Big Board!'

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'Winkfan\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 11:32 PM\']... The channel of my choice is now Boomerang!

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You and me both, Tam.

When I was living in SW Michigan, my cable company had been Cablevision, which in late 1999 promised a doubling of its lineup to some 80 channels.  During that time, Cablevision sold its Michigan division to Charter, who eventually finished the job in December 2000.  Now I have DirecTV, and I still have GSN, so I'm not missing any hands of blackjack.  And yes, I watched cartoons like Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, and Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch when they were on USA.  Those were the days, game shows and cartoons on USA.  That era is long gone, but some of GSN and Boomerang's lineups do help me relive my childhood.

[Jay Temple]

March 2002.  Prior to that, I couldn't even have gotten it by paying extra.

[trainman]

I was one of the first subscribers on the TCI system in the South Hills region of Pittsburgh to get digital cable, because I called and ordered the upgrade the minute I got the postcard announcing its availability -- a postcard which mentioned Game Show Network.  I had the new cable box installed about a week before the end of the Dark Period...I know it was in the spring of 1998, but can't recall the exact date.

I "lost" GSN for a year from March 1999 to March 2000 when I moved to the Los Angeles area, because silly me, I assumed my new apartment complex would have the local franchised cable system, not their own crappy private cable system that didn't carry GSN.

[kurtinrod62]

Not until December of '03, when Comcast moved it from Digital to basic, shortly before GSN started to "Jump the Shark."