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<blockquote data-quote="bmasters9" data-source="post: 270610" data-attributes="member: 77">You bet-- back in the old days of Game Show Network (before it became known as GSN, and started focusing more on what&#039;s on now vs. what was when it came to game shows), they showed reruns of the Wink Martindale Tic Tac Dough from the early years of that 70s version of that X and O trivia game that Wink Martindale was known for, and just before the closing credits, they would have a donut segment listing what was to come next, and I would look forward to enjoying the closing credits, fee plugs and all.However, GSN, in their infinite wisdom, decided that we needed to know again that such shows were up next, so they blocked out the closing music (albeit we could still see the visuals of the closing credits) and told us again, &quot;Such-and-such-a-show is next on GSN&quot; (or words to that effect), as if we didn&#039;t already know.From there, it just got much, much worse-- as soon as one host said goodbye, down went the screen into a credit crunch, and then we were bombarded with ads for shows of now that, for one, I never did care about (like Bingo America, which was, IMO, one of the dumbest of the 2000s); it&#039;s been that way ever since.Here&#039;s an example, from a rerun of a 1979 second-season episode of Tic Tac Dough (skip to the 21:01 or 21:02 mark, and you&#039;ll see what I mean):[MEDIA=youtube]Q8AG8ObeMRE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bmasters9, post: 270610, member: 77"] You bet-- back in the old days of Game Show Network (before it became known as GSN, and started focusing more on what's on now vs. what was when it came to game shows), they showed reruns of the Wink Martindale [I]Tic Tac Dough[/I] from the early years of that 70s version of that X and O trivia game that Wink Martindale was known for, and just before the closing credits, they would have a donut segment listing what was to come next, and I would look forward to enjoying the closing credits, fee plugs and all. However, GSN, in their infinite wisdom, decided that we needed to know again that such shows were up next, so they blocked out the closing music (albeit we could still see the visuals of the closing credits) and told us again, "Such-and-such-a-show is next on GSN" (or words to that effect), as if we didn't already know. From there, it just got much, much worse-- as soon as one host said goodbye, down went the screen into a credit crunch, and then we were bombarded with ads for shows of now that, for one, I never did care about (like [I]Bingo America[/I], which was, IMO, one of the dumbest of the 2000s); it's been that way ever since. Here's an example, from a rerun of a 1979 second-season episode of [I]Tic Tac Dough[/I] (skip to the 21:01 or 21:02 mark, and you'll see what I mean): [MEDIA=youtube]Q8AG8ObeMRE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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