Other poster: I'm not an economic expert, but something tells me that the state of our economy would have minimal to no effect on the asking price of decades old episodes of game shows.
Something tells me that supply and demand rules the world. I really doubt Fremantle is charging "outrageous" prices for shows that nobody - except GSN to a very limited extent - wants.
Sorry to be blunt, but GSN is just covering some off-hours in the morning with cheap programming. Why should they spend a penny more than necessary on small, advertiser-unfriendly audiences? They could probably buy more eps of Press Your Luck for a song, but why sing the song? In the latest published week, February 18-24, PYL averaged 181K viewers with a median age of 102 (slight exaggeration). If GSN bought more eps, that viewership number might leap to...185K.
In the same week Chain Reaction - a show that has endured 88 gazillion rerun cycles, far more than the latest lease of PYL - averaged 369K viewers for its weekday hour. Now there's a show GSN might actually consider making more episodes of. But I'm not holding my breath on that one, either.
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