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The Game Show Network (now known as GSN - The Network for Games) is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite channel dedicated to game shows and interactive television games. The channel was launched on December 1, 1994.

GSN is received by about 58 million homes, and is jointly-owned by Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

GSN licenses the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman game show library, which includes such shows as Match Game
, Password
, To Tell The Truth, Card Sharks
, Blockbusters
, and Family Feud
.

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GSN, in addition to its Goodson-Todman library, features other classics such as Jeopardy!
, Press Your Luck
, The Newlywed Game
, Love Connection
and the classic Dick Clark-hosted versions of Pyramid
, along with more recent fare like Greed
, The Weakest Link
, Dog Eat Dog and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
.

The late night programming block, known as "Black & White Overnight," features game and panel shows from the 1950s and 1960s. Currently showing in this block are What's My Line?
and Beat the Clock
. In the past it has featured Password
, I've Got a Secret
, To Tell the Truth
, The Name's the Same
and other black-and-white classics. The black-and-white shows made up much of the channel's weeknight lineup in the mid-'90s, moving solely to Sunday nights in the late '90s and finally to overnights.

Among the most well-known classic shows previously aired on the network: Wheel of Fortune
, The Joker's Wild
, Tic Tac Dough, the original version of The Hollywood Squares, The Gong Show
, The Dating Game
and The Price is Right.

GSN has also produced several original series. In the channel's early days, club a.m. was a three-hour block consisting of five shows, surrounded by thirty minutes' worth of interstitial trivia, interviews with game show producers, personalities, contestants and fans, and interactive call-in games, all hosted by Laura Chambers and Steve Day. Prime Games was a similarly formatted show aired weeknights and hosted by Peter Tomarken. Wide World of Games was a Saturday night marathon of shows built around a common theme.

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