Post by Shieldsy100 on Nov 2, 2015 4:42:43 GMT -5
With the lack of people submitting nominations for the position of admin, Tony and I have decided to prematurely end the sending of nominations. If you wanted to send in a nomination, I sincerely apologise, but it is too late.
With that being said, I'd like to announce that not only are we adding a new co-admin, to replace myself, but we are also adding two new global moderators, to join existing global moderator, John Bergman.
It is my sincerest pleasure to promote both Doug Morris and Greg Palmer to the position of Global Moderator. I asked them a few days ago to send me a few paragraphs telling me about themselves and their love for gameshows.
dougmorrisontheair
I can relate to the opening lyrics to the theme song of the MTV game show "Remote Control". To paraphrase said lyrics, I sure wasn't like any of the other kids; TV mattered, little else did.
Whereas the normal kids learned their ABCs and 123s from watching "Sesame Street", I learned my letters from watching "Wheel of Fortune" and my numbers from "The Price is Right".
When I was sick during my school days, I was likely watching game shows in my room. I specifically remember April 3, 1989, vividly because that's when "Now You See It" and "Top Card" debuted on CBS and the then TNN: The Nashville Network, respectively. I'd later learn NYSI had a previous life on CBS' daytime schedule. (I was about 3 years old when the original NYSI came and went in about one season's time.)
How did I find out about it? Through the courtesy of the young internet game show community at the alt.tv.game-shows newsgroup. Parts of my senior year of college were spent there. Fan sites on Geocities followed. Along the way, the newsgroup came up with fan-made internet adaptations of "Match Game", the aforementioned NYSI and many more.
Still later, the fun and games would populate an internet mailing list on list-serv, later evolving into Yahoo! Groups. Jay Lewis, host of Net Price is Right, started it all -- and I was humbled to take over the moderating of the list when he left to pursue other interests.
While the group's popularity was waning and is no more (the technology and look of our group was becoming a dinosaur in comparison to forums such as Golden-Road, Press Your Luck Palace and others), I took my act to BigJon's PC Game Shows bulletin board's net games section. I'd admired their work for about two years as a lurker. Near the end of 2013, as I recall, I decided to answer a call to be a panelist on Tony Lane's version of "Hollywood Squares" and, over time, a new chapter in my net game career began.
The net games I was hosting at the time would either be retired (Net Poker) or reborn (Hot Dice and Net Crag, later to be known as Crag: The Numbers Game). Along the way, Tony need a new BLANKing co-host for his rendition of the "Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour". Having done this sort of work for the better part of a decade and a half, I happily accepted the assignment.
In recent years, I'd parlayed my fandom in joining forces with Greg "Greggo" Wicker with his anime-themed game shows. I volunteered to be his announcer and, at times, run camera. The first time we crossed paths was at San Japan: Mach 5 in my former stomping grounds of San Antonio, Texas. My family and I lived in San Antonio, previously. I had not had a chance to revisit in nearly three decades. Knowing Greggo was going to be there and learning old friends from way back when had relocated to the Alamo City, I couldn't decline this chance to revisit. Nothing disappointed me that week. Nothing.
When my schedule allowed, I'd reconnect with Greggo at other conventions closer to home (two in Oxford, Mississippi; another two in Huntsville, Alabama, where my brother and his wife live).
As a former net game colleague often reminded us "back in the day", "actual reality before virtual reality". Actual reality helps pay the bills as I'm a TV newscast producer for the local NBC affiliate and host of a local weekly radio show on classic rock. I've held both jobs for nearly 20 years each -- and am just now thinking about making this my life's work.
palmer7
My name is Greg Palmer. I'm a college student from Durham, North Carolina. I grew up watching game shows on USA and other cable networks, and at first, I was frightened by them. Frightened by the screaming, the announcers, the loud music, etc. But as I grew older and matured, I grew to love them. Although I was too young to fully realize it at the time, I numbered Wink Martindale and Mike Adamle as my childhood heroes. There are numerous home videos of my family watching Wheel of Fortune, a show I host now on this very forum.
I love game shows because they're so different from the dreck we get every day on the news. I think Tom Kennedy said it best in an episode of Hardcastle and McCormick. "I think you've been watching too many cop shows...Cop shows, detective shows, soap operas, the news...have you ever noticed how the bad guys outnumber the good guys?...As a matter of fact, I firmly believe that the more you watch those shows, you start to become a little suspicious...the guy next to you in the elevator, the guy behind you in the check-out line...Most people do. And that's why I love our show. We're the good guys. There's not a bad apple in the whole barrel. You don't have to fill the television with sitcoms and detective shows to keep the viewers entertained." Ironically, he was the villain. But get a load of the speech he gives before he goes on the run from McCormick: "Come on folks, we're the good guys! The Mark McCormicks going for the brass ring...I mean, doesn't that stand for anything?...Hey, now wait a minute folks, I need your help! Get up on your feet and shout out that you don't need cop shows and you don't need those news programs on television. Tell 'em about it! You don't want the cop shows and detective shows and soap operas. You want GOOD shows! You want game shows! More game shows than ever before, huh? Listen folks...they'll listen to you. They HAVE to listen to you because you are the viewers. You're the people who make all those ratings. And you can turn that little television set right off. You people can turn off every TV set in AMERICA!!!...(Close to tears now)...Don't you understand?....Doesn't ANYBODY understand?"
I think I would be a great moderator because I am here everyday. I spend a lot of time here, so I know how things happen. I'm already working closely with Doug and Tony, and I think we'd work well together. I think I'm fair and balanced. Thank you.
I'm sure that you all agree that Greg and Doug will be very valued additions to the moderating team here at NGC. They are already great hosts and people here on the site, not only now, but way back in the BigJon days
And now, without further ado, it is my sincerest honour, to promote Mark Liotta to the position of co-admin, alongside myself (until December) and Tony Lane!
GameShowNetwork
I am 28 years old and hail from Toronto, Canada. My interest in game shows first started when I was about two or three years old. At that time, my mom would drive me to her parents' house for the day while she went to work. It was during this same time that my mom's father (who is no longer alive, unfortunately) would have me watch TV with him in the mornings. These viewings would usually include the daytime game shows that were airing on CBS at the time, those being the Ray Combs version of Family Feud, the Bob Goen version of daytime Wheel, and of course, the long running staple of CBS daytime game shows, The Price Is Right. Ever since then, I have had a strong love for game shows. However, it wasn't just the CBS daytime games I watched. This particular point of my life also saw me begin regular viewing of the syndicated versions of Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy.
After watching a lot of these shows on a regular basis and seeing the various styles each host used, I decided to give it a try myself with hosting my own net game versions of some of these shows. So in May 2003, I joined the now defunct forums at our old home on BigJon's and hosted various net game editions of the same shows I had grown up with, along with other classics such as Match Game and Password. I continued doing this at BigJon's on a regular basis until the forums over there got shut down early last year. When our current home opened for business shortly after BigJon's forums were shuttered permanently, I continued on with hosting net games. This is a hobby that I enjoy very much and hope to continue doing for many more years.
As of this writing, I have hosted net games for 12.5 years. If you ask me, that is quite a long time. And I have no intention of stopping any time soon. I also own some of these various game shows as video games for the Wii, 360, N64 and so on. I no longer watch The Price Is Right as often as I used to, but I still watch Wheel and Jeopardy! when I can. I also watch the Feud on occasion as well. It is very likely that my love of game shows will continue for a very long time, and if not for my grandfather, I would never have fallen in love with game shows.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I appreciate you and Tony giving me an opportunity to take over as a co-admin of this wonderful site.
I wish Mark, Doug and Greg all the best in their new positions, and I hope, that you, as the members of Net Game Central, will go out of your way to make their time in these positions as smooth and easy as possible.
With that being said, I'd like to announce that not only are we adding a new co-admin, to replace myself, but we are also adding two new global moderators, to join existing global moderator, John Bergman.
It is my sincerest pleasure to promote both Doug Morris and Greg Palmer to the position of Global Moderator. I asked them a few days ago to send me a few paragraphs telling me about themselves and their love for gameshows.
dougmorrisontheair
I can relate to the opening lyrics to the theme song of the MTV game show "Remote Control". To paraphrase said lyrics, I sure wasn't like any of the other kids; TV mattered, little else did.
Whereas the normal kids learned their ABCs and 123s from watching "Sesame Street", I learned my letters from watching "Wheel of Fortune" and my numbers from "The Price is Right".
When I was sick during my school days, I was likely watching game shows in my room. I specifically remember April 3, 1989, vividly because that's when "Now You See It" and "Top Card" debuted on CBS and the then TNN: The Nashville Network, respectively. I'd later learn NYSI had a previous life on CBS' daytime schedule. (I was about 3 years old when the original NYSI came and went in about one season's time.)
How did I find out about it? Through the courtesy of the young internet game show community at the alt.tv.game-shows newsgroup. Parts of my senior year of college were spent there. Fan sites on Geocities followed. Along the way, the newsgroup came up with fan-made internet adaptations of "Match Game", the aforementioned NYSI and many more.
Still later, the fun and games would populate an internet mailing list on list-serv, later evolving into Yahoo! Groups. Jay Lewis, host of Net Price is Right, started it all -- and I was humbled to take over the moderating of the list when he left to pursue other interests.
While the group's popularity was waning and is no more (the technology and look of our group was becoming a dinosaur in comparison to forums such as Golden-Road, Press Your Luck Palace and others), I took my act to BigJon's PC Game Shows bulletin board's net games section. I'd admired their work for about two years as a lurker. Near the end of 2013, as I recall, I decided to answer a call to be a panelist on Tony Lane's version of "Hollywood Squares" and, over time, a new chapter in my net game career began.
The net games I was hosting at the time would either be retired (Net Poker) or reborn (Hot Dice and Net Crag, later to be known as Crag: The Numbers Game). Along the way, Tony need a new BLANKing co-host for his rendition of the "Match Game - Hollywood Squares Hour". Having done this sort of work for the better part of a decade and a half, I happily accepted the assignment.
In recent years, I'd parlayed my fandom in joining forces with Greg "Greggo" Wicker with his anime-themed game shows. I volunteered to be his announcer and, at times, run camera. The first time we crossed paths was at San Japan: Mach 5 in my former stomping grounds of San Antonio, Texas. My family and I lived in San Antonio, previously. I had not had a chance to revisit in nearly three decades. Knowing Greggo was going to be there and learning old friends from way back when had relocated to the Alamo City, I couldn't decline this chance to revisit. Nothing disappointed me that week. Nothing.
When my schedule allowed, I'd reconnect with Greggo at other conventions closer to home (two in Oxford, Mississippi; another two in Huntsville, Alabama, where my brother and his wife live).
As a former net game colleague often reminded us "back in the day", "actual reality before virtual reality". Actual reality helps pay the bills as I'm a TV newscast producer for the local NBC affiliate and host of a local weekly radio show on classic rock. I've held both jobs for nearly 20 years each -- and am just now thinking about making this my life's work.
palmer7
My name is Greg Palmer. I'm a college student from Durham, North Carolina. I grew up watching game shows on USA and other cable networks, and at first, I was frightened by them. Frightened by the screaming, the announcers, the loud music, etc. But as I grew older and matured, I grew to love them. Although I was too young to fully realize it at the time, I numbered Wink Martindale and Mike Adamle as my childhood heroes. There are numerous home videos of my family watching Wheel of Fortune, a show I host now on this very forum.
I love game shows because they're so different from the dreck we get every day on the news. I think Tom Kennedy said it best in an episode of Hardcastle and McCormick. "I think you've been watching too many cop shows...Cop shows, detective shows, soap operas, the news...have you ever noticed how the bad guys outnumber the good guys?...As a matter of fact, I firmly believe that the more you watch those shows, you start to become a little suspicious...the guy next to you in the elevator, the guy behind you in the check-out line...Most people do. And that's why I love our show. We're the good guys. There's not a bad apple in the whole barrel. You don't have to fill the television with sitcoms and detective shows to keep the viewers entertained." Ironically, he was the villain. But get a load of the speech he gives before he goes on the run from McCormick: "Come on folks, we're the good guys! The Mark McCormicks going for the brass ring...I mean, doesn't that stand for anything?...Hey, now wait a minute folks, I need your help! Get up on your feet and shout out that you don't need cop shows and you don't need those news programs on television. Tell 'em about it! You don't want the cop shows and detective shows and soap operas. You want GOOD shows! You want game shows! More game shows than ever before, huh? Listen folks...they'll listen to you. They HAVE to listen to you because you are the viewers. You're the people who make all those ratings. And you can turn that little television set right off. You people can turn off every TV set in AMERICA!!!...(Close to tears now)...Don't you understand?....Doesn't ANYBODY understand?"
I think I would be a great moderator because I am here everyday. I spend a lot of time here, so I know how things happen. I'm already working closely with Doug and Tony, and I think we'd work well together. I think I'm fair and balanced. Thank you.
I'm sure that you all agree that Greg and Doug will be very valued additions to the moderating team here at NGC. They are already great hosts and people here on the site, not only now, but way back in the BigJon days
And now, without further ado, it is my sincerest honour, to promote Mark Liotta to the position of co-admin, alongside myself (until December) and Tony Lane!
GameShowNetwork
I am 28 years old and hail from Toronto, Canada. My interest in game shows first started when I was about two or three years old. At that time, my mom would drive me to her parents' house for the day while she went to work. It was during this same time that my mom's father (who is no longer alive, unfortunately) would have me watch TV with him in the mornings. These viewings would usually include the daytime game shows that were airing on CBS at the time, those being the Ray Combs version of Family Feud, the Bob Goen version of daytime Wheel, and of course, the long running staple of CBS daytime game shows, The Price Is Right. Ever since then, I have had a strong love for game shows. However, it wasn't just the CBS daytime games I watched. This particular point of my life also saw me begin regular viewing of the syndicated versions of Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy.
After watching a lot of these shows on a regular basis and seeing the various styles each host used, I decided to give it a try myself with hosting my own net game versions of some of these shows. So in May 2003, I joined the now defunct forums at our old home on BigJon's and hosted various net game editions of the same shows I had grown up with, along with other classics such as Match Game and Password. I continued doing this at BigJon's on a regular basis until the forums over there got shut down early last year. When our current home opened for business shortly after BigJon's forums were shuttered permanently, I continued on with hosting net games. This is a hobby that I enjoy very much and hope to continue doing for many more years.
As of this writing, I have hosted net games for 12.5 years. If you ask me, that is quite a long time. And I have no intention of stopping any time soon. I also own some of these various game shows as video games for the Wii, 360, N64 and so on. I no longer watch The Price Is Right as often as I used to, but I still watch Wheel and Jeopardy! when I can. I also watch the Feud on occasion as well. It is very likely that my love of game shows will continue for a very long time, and if not for my grandfather, I would never have fallen in love with game shows.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I appreciate you and Tony giving me an opportunity to take over as a co-admin of this wonderful site.
I wish Mark, Doug and Greg all the best in their new positions, and I hope, that you, as the members of Net Game Central, will go out of your way to make their time in these positions as smooth and easy as possible.
