The trouble with GSN

GSN's massive schedule changes later this month have set off much chatter on the network's Internet board. Of course, I can't resist tossing in a comment or five, especially about GSN's permanent problem...

Other poster: Looks like GSN is kicking DOND to the curb. Second show that gave GSN great ratings and they are tossing it in the trash.

Welcome to commercial television. Once upon a time Deal or No Deal gave NBC really good ratings, too. The ratings went away, and DOND followed.

Pure unadulterated fantasy: GSN runs a 7:00PM-11:00PM stack of last year's Wheel of Fortune on Sunday night. It would make Harvey Feud's numbers look picayune. Check the daytime Black Friday, 2010 marathon if you don't believe me. Even further-out fantasy: a 7:00PM-11:00PM stack of last year's The Price is Right on Monday night.

But that's the problem with GSN. It's not really Game Show Network. It's Game Shows They Let Us Run Network. If GSN could only get the top-of-the-line stuff like recent Wheel and TPiR, they could rack up really good numbers and maybe get full distribution on the cable/satellite systems.

But for one reason or another, GSN doesn't have access to the top-shelf programming in the genre. Even though it's the only game show cable outlet in the country.