The Random Thread and the Royal Family of Canadia, the USA, and Great Britain

[MickeyisBeast]

Who will the Yankees be playing Friday night?...
*crosses fingers*
PLEASELETITBETHERANGERSPLEASE

The game's at 8:00... come on Rangers!
BEAT TAMPA BAY!

 

[DisneyRockstar]

Yay Jets!

3-1

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Ahhhhh, my siggy makes me so happy

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Yay Jets!

3-1

I love the Jets!
When does the game come on? 8:30?

 

[AmandaSparks730]

DONE!

And Sair-a, I met the PERFECT boy for you today

 

[DisneyRockstar]

I love the Jets!
When does the game come on? 8:30?

Yep. We're all watching.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

DONE!

And Sair-a, I met the PERFECT boy for you today

I already have the perfect boy, thankyouverymuch!

...
WHO? TELL ME!

 

[AmandaSparks730]

GSN (formerly known on-air as Game Show Network) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and casino game shows. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994. Its slogan is "Play Every Day".[1] The network is currently available in approximately 72 million homes, and is jointly-owned by DirecTV[2] and Sony Pictures Television.[2]

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Yep. We're all watching.

Oh yay

 

[AmandaSparks730]

I already have the perfect boy, thankyouverymuch!

...
WHO? TELL ME!

Met him today at a college Open House. He's from New York, and he's a fan of...*lowers voice to stage whisper* the Yankees!

He was kinda cute. Amazing blue eyes, though, light blue. His name was Jack.

 

[wdwllamadancer]

Mark Sanchez<3

 

[AmandaSparks730]

[edit] 1994–1997
Game Show Network went live at 7:00 PM on December 1, 1994.[3] The first aired game show was Match Game '73. From 1994 until about 1997, the network aired pre-1972 classics as well as post-1972 game shows, most from the Mark Goodson–Bill Todman library. The network aired game shows in a 24-hour cycle, and also used live interstitial programming to wrap around the shows. In the first few months, GSN's commercials consisted of public service announcements (PSAs), GSN promos and commercials related to Sony, the parent company of the network. Once the network became bigger, traditional commercials were added to the network as they gained new sponsors.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

From October 11, 1997 to April 18, 1998 the network's Goodson-Todman library rights expired, with the exceptions of The Price Is Right and the 1994-1995 season of Family Feud, which were both on a separate contract. This was known to many fans as the "Dark Period".[citation needed]

With the other Goodson-Todman shows gone, lesser-known Sony properties such as Juvenile Jury, The Diamond Head Game, the 1976-1977 version of Break the Bank, and the Bill Cullen-hosted games Chain Reaction and Pass the Buck all found their ways onto the schedule.

Game Show Network also aired a children's game show block at this time, highlighted by Joker! Joker! Joker!, Jep!, and Wheel 2000—adaptations of The Joker's Wild, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune, respectively.

 

[DisneyRockstar]

I watched GSN when i was 8.

Very true.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

When I was your age, Josh was fat.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

On April 18, 1998, Game Show Network bought back the rights to the Goodson-Todman library. In late 1998, GSN eliminated all of its Live programming. GSN replaced the live shows with in-show ads like Win TV. In 1999, the network began a slate of original programming, including Inquizition, All New 3's a Crowd and Hollywood Showdown. They also created original shows Extreme Gong (a remake of the classic Gong Show) and Burt Luddin's Love Buffet.

In 2000, the network faced another setback when they lost the rights to air The Price Is Right. In 2001, a massive change in both leadership and programming to the network took place. Liberty Media acquired half of the network and changed the leadership. President Michael Fleming and Vice President Jake Tauber were both fired and former FOX Family president Rich Cronin was hired to head the network. He and incoming Vice President Bob Boden began the biggest original programming venture since the network's inception.

 

[wdwllamadancer]

I love GSN!

 

[AmandaSparks730]

I watched GSN when i was 8.

Very true.

I watched it when I was like, 5, XD.

2003-2008
In Fall 2003, Game Show Network began airing GSN Video Games, the first program to air on the network that had nothing to do with traditional game shows. Although the show - a repackaging of somewhat dated British video game review shows (mostly Gamer.tv) - was short-lived, it was a sign of the network's change of format from Game Show Network's "all game shows, all the time" to what eventually became "GSN: The Network for Games".

On March 15, 2004 at 10:00 PM, GSN stopped using the name "Game Show Network" on-air and introduced the tagline "The Network for Games", a move in line with the network expanding its programming to include the genre of reality television and various other competitions. (However, the entity's corporate name remained Game Show Network, LLC.)

The newly-renamed GSN also introduced the original series World Series of Blackjack, Celebrity Blackjack, Extreme Dodgeball, Poker Royale, and the short-lived Fake-a-Date, Vegas Weddings Unveiled, and Ballbreakers. GSN also added reruns of The Mole, Average Joe, Arsenio Hall's Star Search, Kenny vs. Spenny, and Spy TV - all of which were eventually removed from the schedule (though Kenny vs. Spenny was picked up for new episodes by Comedy Central in 2007).

Traditional game shows Win Ben Stein's Money and Street Smarts were also acquired around this time and aired in various time slots, though neither was regularly programmed as of mid-March 2008.

Blackjack and Poker Royale signified the beginnings of GSN's attempts to cash in on the TV poker-craze at the time. In 2006, GSN introduced High Stakes Poker, a poker show with a private-game format among professional players, and also programmed additional series of World Series of Blackjack and a spinoff, Celebrity Blackjack. One of the most popular shows from the initial TV poker boom, the World Poker Tour, was slated to move from the Travel Channel to GSN on March 24, 2008.

Within a year after GSN's revamp, GSN has primarily began returning its focus to studio-based game shows.

 

[DisneyRockstar]

Who ever seen Press Your Luck?

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Met him today at a college Open House. He's from New York, and he's a fan of...*lowers voice to stage whisper* the Yankees!

He was kinda cute. Amazing blue eyes, though, light blue. His name was Jack.

Hahaa