Saturday, September 5, 2009

Game Show Network Lives on TV4U.Com

While the original Game Show Network has morphed into 'GSN', fans of classic TV game shows need not despair. There is now a Game Show channel as one of the 48 IPTV channels on TV4U.Com. It can be reached directly at TVS Network.Net. The folks at TVS Television Network have been busy gathering up the classic game shows for you to rnjoy and are already up to 50 different classic game shows. More classic game shows are added every week, and the fans are happy!

The shows are ad supported and free to watch. They are available on demand, so you can watch them when you want to.

To Tell The Truth is coming soon, as are about two dozen more great shows like Dotto, Country Fair, and Lingo.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Championship Bridge Was Example of Walter Schwimmer Genius

One of the forgotten icons of early TV was Chicago based producer Walter Schwimmer. It was Walter who teamed with fellow forgotten icon Frederic Ziv to bring The Cisco Kid to TV viewers in the early 1950's. Walter had the foresight to shoot it in color, and the show endures to today. Walter also created the highly successful Championship Bowling, a show that was so successful that ABC helped the bowlers form the PBA, which endures to this day! Championship Bridge, All Star Golf, All Star Racing, and Let's Go to the Races were all Walter Schwimmer creations. The Championship Bridge show was wonderfully produced, with Chicago newsman Alex Drier as the host and Bridge legend Charles Goren as the expert anylist. The show only lasted a few years, and it was never succeeded by another TV bridge show. It lives in the Arts Channel of TV4U.Com, which can be found at TVS Tele.Net, one of the TVS Television Network IPTV channels.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

60 Years of Classic Action TV

TVS Television.Com is a part of the TVS Television Network, the fourth oldest commercial network in the USA. It was founded in 1961 and for years it was the top independent broadcast TV network in the USA. In the 1960's through the 80's, TVS was the main presenter of college basketball on television. In the early days, TVS actually telecast the NCAA Basketball Championships. Later they worked with NBC for many years as the college basketball market increased in popularity. TVS also telecast auto racing, golf, tennis, college football games, the World Football League, and Ladies Pro Bowling Tour (LPBT). Non sports includsed talk shows, history based shows, even the Frank Sinatra: The Main Event spectacular from Madison Square Garden that was the stage of oneof Sinatra's many comebacks.

Monday, October 20, 2008

TVS

The Suspense show on Nostalgia TV (NTV) was originally a popular radio show. This often happened in the early days of TV. Show like Dragnet, Ozzie and Harriet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Have Gun Will Travel, and You Bet Your Life were all originally radio shows. In the early years of TV, the networks hedged their bets and ran these shows on both radio AND television. Once the coast was clear, the networks scrapped he radio version and just presented the shows on TV. If you'd like to hear the radio version of Suspense and the other shows, they'll be coming soon to RKONetwork.Com.