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Administrator: Does GSN still air game shows? I never noticed. (Sarcasm)
Other poster: By traditional definition of game shows, yes. Though not very many...So yeah, while GSN doesn't have as many game shows to offer like they did ten years ago, they do devote the majority of the weekly schedule to game shows, even if it's overkill of Family Feud.
That's true, if by "majority" you mean 100%. That's how much of GSN's programming schedule is currently occupied by traditional game shows. (To give the posters some credit, Window Whatever was running when this thread happened, but it quickly vanished.)
As for the "not very many" comment, today GSN is running thirteen different game shows, and that's not counting different versions of Family Feud and Chain Reaction as separate shows. And while there is a lot of Feud on today, other shows take 60% of the programming hours.
Compare that schedule to Buzzr, which is running ten different shows today - less than GSN, obviously - with a whopping 12 hours of Match Game and Family Feud. In fact, the MG-Feud "overkill" has become so obvious that TV News Check even asked a Fremantle exec about it. Of course, these are the shows that get the most responses for the ads on Buzzr. Just like Harvey Feud is the show that gets the best ratings for GSN. Sorry to state the obvious, but any cable network runs its most successful shows a lot.
Don't worry, though, the two posters I quoted aren't about to complain about the Buzzr schedule. That's because they're older-is-better guys, and every show on Buzzr is really old.
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