Back in 1968 it was NBC which couldn't make up its mind. The show in question was Let's Make a Deal, and NBC didn't want to give producers Monty Hall and Stefan Hatos much more money to keep the show on the Peacock net. Curt Alliaume tells the story on his LMAD page.
After negotiations broke down, Monty took his wheeling and dealing to ABC on December 30, 1968, much to the profit of the Alphabet net. (Yeah, I'm indulging in too much Variety speak here.) NBC lost a ton of revenue and daytime ratings.
I know it's pretty ridiculous to compare a long-lived classic like Let's Make a Deal to a struggling Take Me Out. But sometimes networks really don't know what they have until it's gone. So I can understand why Fox seems to be giving another chance to its Dating Game times ten.
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