Some real news about Buzzr!

This makes three posts in a row about Buzzr, just when I was lamenting a dearth of news.

As an update to a previous post noted, Buzzr has announced on Twitter and Facebook that Classic Concentration will arrive on the diginet October 1. They came up with a cute rebus for the news. I assume it's the Alex Trebek 1987-91 show and not some other version of Concentration. Alex's mustache will be back on the air, and that's a major game show happening in itself.

This may be one of the "non-Fremantle" shows that GM Mark Deetjen was talking about. Concentration began as a Barry-Enright project, of course, and was then owned by NBC, though the Goodson bunch took over production duties for the 1987-91 version. It's complicated. See Wikipedia for the gory details.

As I sourly note in a comment on a previous post, this sounds like news that will thrill the game show Interwebs but do little to expand Buzzr's audience beyond the oldie hardcores. I don't see TV stations falling over themselves to carry the diginet just because they've added another thirty-year-old game show. In fact, Buzzr seems to have given up on regular TV carriage by giving away its live feed on its Internet site.

By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Buzzr uses its Twitch feed to preview Classic Concentration. That feed needs all the viewers it can get.

In other news a commenter notes that Game TV in Canada seems to have dropped its Buzzr-branded late night block of programming. Again, regular (or "linear") TV doesn't seem promising for Buzzr in its current form.

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