Paging Mr. Deetjen

Hadn't stopped by Game Show Forum for a while. I landed on this weird thread about Buzzr's acquisition of Classic Concentration.

Apparently the original poster intended a parody of some wrestler's comments from long, long ago. Nobody got the reference, which was understandable. But I noticed another goof in the original post...

Ron Garfield, whether he mortgaged his house one time, maybe two times, maybe three times, came up with the right figure for NBC to air Classic Concentration on his network.

Uh, no. Ron Garfield doesn't work for Buzzr any more. Check his LinkedIn page if you don't believe me. The new general manager of Buzzr is Mark Deetjen, who also plays a little poker in his spare time. Maybe the poker skills came in handy in the Classic Concentration deal.

There was an exec shakeup at Buzzr earlier this year, which seems to have strongly affected the diginet's direction. I commented before when oldies fans at Game Show Paradise didn't know about the shakeup. Now it looks like oldies fans at Game Show Forum haven't heard, either.

You'd think they would pay a little more attention to the news about a diginet they follow almost religiously.

UPDATE: While I was looking through Game Show Forum, I thought I'd stop by Game Show Paradise, too. They were chatting about Buzzr's irritating habit of breaking into shows with commercials at the wrong time. One poster had a pretty harsh remark...

It's sloppy, and it's possible that they don't realize these hard cuts are occurring, or they don't care because it's good enough for a network that no one watches to sell ad time for "normal" looking underwear you can pee in and solutions for crepe skin.

Nobody watches Buzzr? I dunno, there are some folks on oldies boards who watch the diginet a lot.