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Post by thekid965 on May 29, 2015 13:59:59 GMT -5
BuzzerBlog has published at least a partial list of stations and markets that will be getting Buzzr come launch day:
(Number in parentheses is that market's DMA ranking)
California
Los Angeles (2): KCOP
San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose (6): KTVU
District of Columbia
Washington/Hagerstown, MD (8): WDCA
Florida
Orlando/Daytona Beach (18): WRBW
Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg (13): WTVT
Georgia
Atlanta (9): WAGA
Illinois
Chicago (3): WPWR
Michigan
Detroit (12): WJBK
New York
New York City (1): WWOR
North Carolina
Charlotte (24): WMYT
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (4): WTXF
Texas
Austin (39): KTBC
Dallas/Ft. Worth (5): KDFI
Houston (10): KTXH
Expect more stations to eventually be added, but these are the ones that can be confirmed at this time.
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Post by phimat37 on May 29, 2015 15:01:05 GMT -5
It sucks to have to wait for them to possibly add more networks. The suspense kills me.
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Post by Mandoli on May 29, 2015 15:20:34 GMT -5
I'm really hoping that this network comes here eventually. Chances are that it won't, but hey... I can dream, right? (In all fairness, there are some good selections for the launch to start with.)
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Post by tpirrules1972 on May 29, 2015 15:32:52 GMT -5
WWOR is available on our cable lineup here, but I doubt that will help much.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on May 29, 2015 19:07:21 GMT -5
I noticed 5.3 just showed up today in my channel listings finally. Nothing right now but a duplicate of WAGA 5.1. Only two more days!  |
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Post by ladykelsey on May 29, 2015 19:24:40 GMT -5
Will BuzzrTV also make it's debut in Arizona too as well? Because it would be a wonderful channel for my aunt to see because like me she is also a game show fan too,
Is BuzzrTV gonna be shown in Arizona?,
Kelsey
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Post by Mandoli on May 29, 2015 20:21:17 GMT -5
Is BuzzrTV gonna be shown in Arizona? As of now... No. |
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Post by jean74 on May 29, 2015 20:47:26 GMT -5
Hope they will make it's way to TN or Direct TV for that matter. As really hope they would put GSN out of business.
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on May 29, 2015 21:07:21 GMT -5
Ohio and DirecTV preferably. Please make it happen.
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Post by SpeedAndStrategy on May 29, 2015 21:21:43 GMT -5
The weekend schedule has now been posted by Greg Brobeck on the Game Show Forum (and can also be found on TitanTV's listings for some affiliates). Daytime has the same shows seen on the weekday schedule, albeit with some slots moved around (the B&W shows get daytime play!), plus the inevitable E/I programming between 10 AM and noon.
Prime time is where things get interesting. Saturday nights should be a good kind of interesting, as we get "Buzzr Time Machine" blocks spotlighting five or six shows from the same decade. This should be similar to GSN's old "Game Show Saturday Night" and "Saturday Night Classics" blocks, and allow for some shows not on the regular schedule to get airtime. On the other hand, Sunday nights feature a block of the old Discovery Channel reality shows Monster Garage and Monster House. Seems awfully random to me, and not something I would watch. But hey, I'll take a tiny bit of bad/weird with a lot of good.
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Post by Mandoli on May 29, 2015 21:27:57 GMT -5
... plus the inevitable E/I programming between 10 AM and noon. Why does a channel dedicated to game shows need E/I programming? GSN doesn't do anything like that. |
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Post by SpeedAndStrategy on May 29, 2015 21:32:19 GMT -5
All over-the-air channels (including digital subchannels) are required to devote three hours a week to it, regardless of what they air for all the other hours. GSN is strictly cable and thus exempt.
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Post by WarioSajak on May 29, 2015 22:36:16 GMT -5
Okay, Fremantle can't be coincidentally doing in this schedule what GSN used to with Black & White Overnight and Game Show Saturday Night. Prime time is where things get interesting. Saturday nights should be a good kind of interesting, as we get "Buzzr Time Machine" blocks spotlighting five or six shows from the same decade. This should be similar to GSN's old "Game Show Saturday Night" and "Saturday Night Classics" blocks, and allow for some shows not on the regular schedule to get airtime. Hopefully. I know shows like Winner Take All, Number Please, Say When!!, Call My Bluff, and Mindreaders have very little known to exist, and if Fremantle has anything of Snap Judgment or By Popular Demand (two shows which seem to have pretty much nothing existing) this would be a good place to bring 'em out. Further, since Fremantle owns the Reg Grundy library, they could also pull out stuff like Time Machine, Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, Scattergories, and Small Talk. It'd also be a good way to bring out pilots. IIRC, over-the-air stations are forbidden from airing cigarette/cigar ads, so the entirety of Judge For Yourself and most of Two For The Money are out. |
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Post by caseyabell on May 30, 2015 1:02:39 GMT -5
Every one of the stations listed in the above comment has been on Wikipedia forever, along with a few others. There's one small difference in D.C. Don't ask me why. The critical question is whether the subchannel will (eventually) show up on any cable systems. That's how the overwhelming majority of people watch TV nowadays. Very few folks outside of the hardest-core hardcores will bother with buying an antenna and hooking it up to their TVs to get Buzzr over the air. As for the goofball reality stuff on Sunday, I can only assume that Buzzr wants to prove - to cable operators? - that they can program something less than eighty years old (slight exaggeration). Really, the age on Buzzr's reported schedule looks crushing compared to GSN's original 1994 lineup, which mostly ran stuff that was ten to twenty years old at the time. Match Game 90 with Ross Shafer wasn't even five years old when GSN debuted. Horrors! If Buzzr wanted a schedule roughly comparable to GSN's original lineup in age when Game Show Network launched, they'd be programming NBC Deal or No Deal, Regis Millionaire, early 2000s Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, Barker TPiR from ten to fifteen years ago, etc. Sure, most of those shows aren't Fremantle properties, but a lot of GSN's original schedule wasn't Sony stuff, either. Here's the thing. I wouldn't be amazed if some or all of the shows I mentioned turn up on Buzzr before too long. Based on published comments, it also looks like the Buzzr YouTube versions of various formats will hit the schedule one of these days. |
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Post by pzimm7778 on May 30, 2015 2:55:42 GMT -5
So I broke down and hooked up a pair of rabbit ears to my TV again just to see what the station might look like in terms of reception. Works well. However in scanning all the local channels, it's a pretty safe bet this station will not only be not available on Verizon FIOS Monday but it may be a long wait to get it. I was surprised to see the number of subchannels available OTA that we don't have yet. Saw a Decades one, something called Grit, another called Escape too. That's just 3.
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