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Out In Left Field / Re: College Hoops 2022-2023
« Last post by SeaBreeze341 on Yesterday at 08:39:09 PM »
March Madness is happening 6 weeks in advance!


To be more specific, College Hoops saw the top 2 teams fall this week.  Three days after No 2 Tennessee fell to former back-to-back national champion Florida, Purdue lost on the road to No 21 Indiana (last school to go undefeated throughout).  As mentioned by a lot of people, mainly the experts, there are no dominant teams in the sport.  Which isn't really accurate; there are, but just not someone that's a clear favorite.  Both the Vols and Boilermakers were facing conference foes, with the latter actually losing to a ranked opponent.  One who could actually do well.  I don't think Indiana will win out but it's possible.

Alabama should be Number one, but I imagine that it'll be Houston (unless they lose to Temple on Sunday).

Meanwhile, in a rare case of a battle off non-ranked teams featuring Duke & North Carolina, Duke wins their first game in the rivalry post Coach K
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by SteveGavazzi on Yesterday at 07:14:21 PM »
Quote from: Madskills2 on Yesterday at 06:51:27 PM
You are all free to disagree with me. It would be hypocritical of all of you if I wasn't afforded the same opportunity to offer counterpoints to your points. I did not say anything offensive or call anyone names or was a jerk to anyone. This is a discussion board with various opinions and views are allowed.

Counterpoint:  You're being oblivious on purpose, and I'm locking the thread.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by TPIRfan#9821 on Yesterday at 07:11:17 PM »
Quote from: Madskills2 on Yesterday at 06:43:02 PM
Which leads to the point that a fun gameshow like this that gets a million dollar prize to give away and proper promotion (I don't believe the advertising for the daytime edition promised a million) could give this strong ratings than what tpir at night is pulling in

That's factually incorrect.


At least you accept that we're allowed to disagree with you. However, you never addressed any of my points; you instead created another hypothetical scenario with no real-life basis. By the virtue of the show giving away cars, what you proposed is impossible.

Would ratings be lower if they actually did that? Yes. That's not the practical baseline though; that baseline is the daytime show. There are diminishing returns to offering "cheaper" prizes on the show. The daytime show still has two cash games that offer only $10,000, because the show believes that is a good enough amount for people to be excited. Looking at the landscape of daytime game shows, from 25 Words or Less to runners up on Wheel of Fortune, I'd say that's an accurate assessment. They raised the prize of those games to $25,000 and $30,000 in this batch of primetime shows. There is some level of excitement for elevated stakes, but the show knows that after a certain point, it won't lead to significant viewership. After a certain level, it doesn't matter, which is why Tris made the claim

Quote from: OneBidTris on Yesterday at 06:10:20 PM
Even if they stuck to what the normal daytime show did with one or two nicer cars (like they've done before), I think the audience would still be into the show. The Price is Right is an institution people love and we've experience a game show boom.

I agree with that. From experience and the spinny star under my username, it's awesome just to be called on down. As long as it feels like The Price is Right, people will watch, and I haven't heard any outcry from the general public about bringing back the MDSes except from hardcore Price fans, who probably are watching the At Night specials as well.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: Looking for Video from 1962 Episode
« Last post by SteveGavazzi on Yesterday at 07:02:58 PM »
I'm assuming the blank post was another attempt to link to the article.

I'm not sure what issue you're having, but if you e-mail me the link, I'll be glad to post it for you.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by Madskills2 on Yesterday at 06:51:27 PM »
Quote from: Casey on Yesterday at 06:47:19 PM
Several of us now have explained to you in varying ways why we believe your hypothesis is wrong.  You've made it abundantly clear you don't agree with us and are just spinning words now to try to convince us that you are correct and all of the rest of us are wrong.  Somehow, I don't think that tactic is going to convince anyone.

You are all free to disagree with me. It would be hypocritical of all of you if I wasn't afforded the same opportunity to offer counterpoints to your points. I did not say anything offensive or call anyone names or was a jerk to anyone. This is a discussion board with various opinions and views are allowed.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by Casey on Yesterday at 06:47:19 PM »
Several of us now have explained to you in varying ways why we believe your hypothesis is wrong.  You've made it abundantly clear you don't agree with us and are just spinning words now to try to convince us that you are correct and all of the rest of us are wrong.  Somehow, I don't think that tactic is going to convince anyone.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by Madskills2 on Yesterday at 06:43:02 PM »
Quote from: GRWHAMMY the 2nd on Yesterday at 06:35:59 PM
this kinda thing is why daytime Wheel of Fortune eventually died out (that and possibly the exit of Pat, leading eventually to the CBS run with Bob Goen)

Which leads to the point that a fun gameshow like this that gets a million dollar prize to give away and proper promotion (I don't believe the advertising for the daytime edition promised a million) could give this strong ratings than what tpir at night is pulling in
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by GRWHAMMY the 2nd on Yesterday at 06:35:59 PM »
this kinda thing is why daytime Wheel of Fortune eventually died out (that and possibly the exit of Pat, leading eventually to the CBS run with Bob Goen)
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by Madskills2 on Yesterday at 06:14:10 PM »
Quote from: OneBidTris on Yesterday at 06:10:20 PM
Mostly echoing the point that there was a point where it was trendy to have the Million Dollars be the big draw of these shows 15 years ago, and those specials were all pretty much from that point. We didn't even have them for a while outside those trio of primetime specials and those showed that people still have the appetite for regular old Price at Night. Whether it works better with celebrities or alone, they've shown in the last few years that they don't need to offer a mega prize to get people to watch. People just like to watch the show and the fact that it can still pull 5 million a week in when ratings for all of TV is down is nothing short of incredible.

Perhaps it's not everything you want from it, but they are willing to go higher budget and have shown in even this past batch of shows that they are fine with upping the prizes on the show. Whether it's raising cash amounts or offering nicer cars, they've got a winning format on their hands and they know what they're doing.

I'm not sure this two person discussion is helping the topic at hand. It's not an either or situation and it doesn't seem relevant to dwell on past eras of game shows when it's changed quite a bit.

EDIT: Even if they stuck to what the normal daytime show did with one or two nicer cars (like they've done before), I think the audience would still be into the show. People just like watching the shows and we've experience a game show boom.

Kind of brings me to my next question. Would people be happy if they went in the opposite direction and made the prizes cheaper at less than $1000? After all, it's still the same game show so why complain?
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The TALK Is Right / Re: How come the nighttime episodes aren't million dollar spectacular anymore?
« Last post by OneBidTris on Yesterday at 06:10:20 PM »
Mostly echoing the point that there was a point where it was trendy to have the Million Dollars be the big draw of these shows 15 years ago, and those specials were all pretty much from that point. We didn't even have them for a while outside those trio of primetime specials and those showed that people still have the appetite for regular old Price at Night. Whether it works better with celebrities or alone, they've shown in the last few years that they don't need to offer a mega prize to get people to watch. People just like to watch the show and the fact that it can still pull 5 million a week in when ratings for all of TV is down is nothing short of incredible.

Perhaps it's not everything you want from it, but they are willing to go higher budget and have shown in even this past batch of shows that they are fine with upping the prizes on the show. Whether it's raising cash amounts or offering nicer cars, they've got a winning format on their hands and they know what they're doing.

I'm not sure this two person discussion is helping the topic at hand. It's not an either or situation and it doesn't seem relevant to dwell on past eras of game shows when it's changed quite a bit.

EDIT: Even if they stuck to what the normal daytime show did with one or two nicer cars (like they've done before), I think the audience would still be into the show. The Price is Right is an institution people love and we've experience a game show boom.
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