csim

I use to love watching press your luck, scrabble, lets make a deal everyday on tv. Why are they no longer on tv. I know they are on the gameshow network but i do not have that. So why did they stopped making them. They were great shows.

freedexter

Ratings. Not enough means you can't sell ads, which means the distributior (assuming these are syndicated) cancels them. Many have been revived, though.

There are still syndicated game shows, like "The Price is Right", "To Tell the Truth", "Pyramid", "Family Feud", "The Weakest Link", "Street Smarts", "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy", and "Hollywood Squares". Wheter they air on daytime or not isn't really the distributor's fault.

calhoun07

Price is Right isn't syndicated.

Beat the Geeks was my favorite game show, but it is no more, sadly.

clemente

Oprah happened to daytime gameshows.

big whoppa

Daytime talk shows and the court TV shows did the game shows in.

FlashStash

Actually, it started with the network's handing over the noon hour to the local affiliates for news, which pre-empted the game shows shown at that time...then they gradually handed back more and more time...

So, I don't think you'll ever see networks filling this AM hours with game shows, but there are plenty of syndicated shows and cable shows filling these hours with game shows now...(Millionaire, Pyramid, Family Feud, etc.)

Actually, I haven't calculated it out, but I'd be willing to bet there are more first-run game shows on the air now then there were in the 70's...anyone care to start a list?

FS

clemente

Most of those shows run on local non-affiliated shows....and at least here in Chicago, they run in the evening hours.

calhoun07

Day time soaps, court shows and talk shows rule day time TV in Kansas City. Family Feud and Pyramid and Millionare and others are aired either in early to mid afternoon (starting at 4pm) or late at night after Letterman.

nightwing82

In my area Family Feud, Pyramid, Millionare, and Weakest Link all air in the morning (before noon)

Timber

The court shows and the game shows used to coexist peacefully on daytime TV. I used to love the fake court shows from back in the day like Divorce court and Supieror court....

Morf

Price is Right, baby! Do you need anything more?

El Scorcho

Classic Concentration
Card Sharks
Price is Right
Scrabble

Hell, I even remember when what was effectively "Wheel of Fortune Lite" aired in the daytime and "Wheel of Fortune Regular" aired at nighttime.

All these stupid court shows took over. Judge Mills Lane. Judge Joe Brown. Judge Judy. Some big sassy black chick in a robe (can't remember her name). And so on. They're all lame now.

bretski

You can still find lots of your old favorites on Game Show Network.

I love to watch the old Match Game reruns. Charles Nelson Reilley is da man!!

CharlesC

Sassy!