Schedule Changes June 6th

[MMM717]

Instead of adding PYRAMID episodes, it gets an airing removed. It's pretty annoying (and I like BAGGAGE). Would be great if a Classics centric subchannel of GSN could be created, and actually air the stuff in the vaults (instead of a season or two only of a given show).

[xibit777]

Two more notes.
2) Also $25,000 Pyramid is gone from week nights, Baggage will be replacing it at 1:30AM. Lingo at 2AM and Improv at 2:30AM. That leaves only 1 hour of classics in late night with Card Sharks at 3-4AM.

And that leaves 1 less viewer here. Granted, I haven't been viewing for quite a few years now, but hey, keep driving the nail in. I keep hoping it'll get better, but it just gets worse and worse. Can't wait to see those ratings. Heaven forbid we actually remove the show that was really expensive to make and gets terrible ratings. Noooo, let's remove the show that's probably dirt cheap, and gets pretty good ratings for a classic.

[GregSumner]

Heaven forbid we actually remove the show that was really expensive to make

Business 101 says you take the action that's either going to make you the most money, or cost you the least money. If GSN hasn't pulled the show despite ratings that are honestly more hilarious than the show itself, there's some other reason at play that cost-justifies the decision.

It's not always a linear relationship with ratings. Somewhere along the way to make the show, GSN may well have signed a deal guaranteeing a certain number of airplays, a certain level of station clearance, or some other thing that causes them to continue running the show.

For all the questionable things this network's management has done, they've never struck me as the type to do something patently stupid. Which means there's probably something else going on here.

[CardSharks8689]

2) Also $25,000 Pyramid is gone from week nights, Baggage will be replacing it at 1:30AM. Lingo at 2AM and Improv at 2:30AM. That leaves only 1 hour of classics in late night with Card Sharks at 3-4AM.

Looks like the countdown to removing $25,000 Pyramid completely has now begun.

If $25,000 Pyramid leaves completely, the quartet of classics that GSN currently airs will be down to just a trio. It's days like this that I wish GSN could get more classics, but knowing Kelly Goode or David Goldhill, that likely won't happen.

I remember back in 2008 there were a lot of classics GSN aired. Soon, there may only be 3 remaining. Sad.

[robwest]

as more digital subchannels are launched, classic game shows will end up one of theses digital subchannels and possibly on free over the air antenna tv! and i don't mean the channel antenna tv!