Help for GSN to air Classic WOF eps. with old puzzle board

A petition wouldn't do anything. GSN airs what they want. Besides, they're becoming much more modern lately, so if they ever do pick up WOF reruns again, it would most likely be a recent season.

They could still turn the petition down.

GSN has apparently become part of the corporate world. My definition of the current corporate world is that they do whatever they want and do not care about what anyone else has to say. As long as they're happy with what they've got, they could care less about anything else. I took a Russian history course last year, and I'm telling you right now, folks that's pretty much how Stalin and Lenin did things.

And if GSN's excuse is that they don't have the money, get the money! Pay whoever has some Woolery episodes for example, put them on the schedule, and watch even more money come in from every direction! Yeah, GSN, you may be in a bit of debt at first, but you'll be out of it before you know it, but if you want to spin up a Bankrupt, you've done an awfully good job of doing it so far.

In fact, I feel that GSN's going the same way G4 did. Ten years ago, G4 had a lot of good stuff on. In fact, I even dubbed them the video game channel. Look at where they are now - nowhere!

Are you kidding me?! Bankrott, GSN!

I'm partially with WarioSajak as regards why we won't see Woolery-era Wheel of Fortune on the regular schedule. While I see his point that Pat and Vanna are the faces of Wheel these days, what GSN CAN air plays a factor, too: the reason I wouldn't fault GSN if Wheel pops back up and Pat and Vanna are on is that there are few known Woolery episodes that exist in the first place. Unless we have a hidden vault of Woolery-era Wheel episodes somewhere—such treasure troves have been found for other shows in the past, and there are people that question that the first decade of daytime Wheel has been wiped—we're probably not going to see Woolery hosting Wheel on GSN on any sort of regular basis.

I have my own list of shows/eras I'd like to see on the GSN schedule (either for the first time or brought back), and I have my complaints about what's there (if you like Family Feud so much, then why the hell are you relegating Richard Dawson to Match Game?), but realistically, GSN's more hit-and-miss than the lost cause that gradyz033 makes them out to be.

Going a little off-topic here, but there is a Christian television station here in Canada called CTS. They too air Harvey Feud.

I could care less about what GSN does nowadays. They've been doing a lot of things over the last 4-5 years that appears as though they only care about themselves. I still watch GSN some, but nowhere near as much as I used to.

You would think that Sony would want their own shows on their own network, but why they don't air either Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy is beyond me. If they're excuse is that they don't want them to come on GSN at the same time as in syndication, that's ridiculous. Ever since GSN started showing reruns of Steve Harvey's Family Feud, viewership has doubled in syndication. I don't think Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy will double their viewership, but I think the numbers could easily go up a ways.

Even with the programming GSN does have right now, they're still lacking variety in many ways. Take a look at their schedule right now, and you'll see only a few shows worth watching. If GSN doesn't clean themselves up, then I could see the network going the way of Nick GAS in the next few years.

Come on GSN, put some old school Wheel of Fortune on in the mornings.

GSN is a business, always has been and always will be. Their goal is to make money, not to cater to fans like some may think. No money, no business, no GSN.

It is up to them to choose properties that they feel will give them the greatest return on their investments. Right now, they don't feel like that is classic Wheel.


If they thought that would happen, they would have done it.  Apparently they don't believe there is as much value there as you do.


You've got it!


And they've still got you as a viewer without paying a dime for classic Wheel! See how that works?

Nick GAS was rather doomed since there wasn't as large of a library to choose from, and although it lasted enough years to get a good run at reliving my childhood, Nick themselves owned their own shows; it simply died due to a lack of new game shows to supplant it. There were maybe 1500 episodes of different Nick shows that they could have ran.

What GSN can run is tens of thousands of episodes, and that's only counting Wheel, J!, all Family Feud versions, Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, and Match Game. Wheel was for over two decades the number-one rated show in syndication, and pairing it with classic Jeopardy! will surely work like it did during the network's golden years. Unfortunately, they aren't very open toward the audience and simply decide what works best for them and not us. Its a shame since it takes enough work just to remove episodes from Youtube; if there is no outlet toward making money off of classic episodes via advertisers (which sadly is unfavorable for classic game shows just like what doomed most classic oldies radio stations), then it wouldn't be viable toward airing some episodes. While Crackle is one such service that aired select classic Jeopardy! episodes, why not it or another streamer like Netflix or Hulu (its not like they are small startups anymore) provide a special channel for preserving such content, and Sony/GSN could make their ends meet? Since Game Shows aren't known for DVD releases (and a slowly dying medium), forget those. Another factor is as long as Pat/Vanna are the host, they (much the reason why GSN took off Price in 2000) probably don't want classic content competing with current shows, a strategy I feel worked out with TPIR. But its 2014 now and video streaming is a given online along with more TVs that can hook up and stream. My dream plan would be for Wheel to air a Daytime episode during the actual daytime, and a primetime (preferably the seasons the network hasn't ran up through around season 20 since the late '90s/early '00s have some nostalgia value nowadays) episode around 8PM, after the first-run episodes have aired. That said, until it happens, I'll keep checking old tapes to find more than just a few promos. I'd be willing to pay $10 a month just to watch a season's worth of material in if such a service was provided; 100,000 views would mean a Million Dollar Wedge there.

That said, I only watch GSN when it happens to be airing either a new segment of a lease that either hasn't been aired in at least a decade (I'm ready for spring 1984 PYL even though I have lots of them on some VHS tapes) or if its a new show that's good like The Chase or American Bible Challenge. It still bothers me that GSN hasn't aired any 1983-85 $25,000 Pyramid or the 1991 John Davidson episodes which is a lot of gold they've been missing out on. I'm still fortunate to have the memories of watching Seasons 2, 6, part of 7, 11, 13, and most of 14 on the network, and while all except two were revisiting my childhood, it was still nice to get the then-old school look. Heck, I'd be happy to get anything that predates the Prize Puzzle era.