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04-08-2005, 08:03 AM
From TVGameshows.net:
Bob Boden Named Program Chief for Fox Reality Channel
Bob Boden, who steered Game Show Network programming in its earliest years and through the early part of the New Millennium is going to try his hand with one of cable's most-touted new channels.
Tuesday, Boden was announced as vice president for programming for Fox Reality Channel, which hits cable systems May 24.
On the same day, Fox Reality COO David Lyle announced carriage deals for FRC with Adelphia Communications and Insight Communications.
Boden, a CBS daytime executive in the 1980s, developed Game Show Network's original programming structure into live interactive playbreaks in the morning hours and in prime time.
After a stint with the former Fox Family Channel, Boden developed Greed for Dick Clark Productions and Fox in 1999 when the Millionaire era exploded in prime time on the broadcast networks.
He returned to GSN in 2001 and developed a half-dozen prime time originals for the network and made use of the extensive Goodson-Todman classics in a two-hour Black and White Overnight block.
Boden left the network in 2004 after a difference of opinion with GSN executives over the shift in direction away from conventional game show programming to a "network for games" philosophy.
In December 2004, Boden produced Game Show Millionaires as a one-hour documentary special for The TV Guide Channel.
Bob Boden Named Program Chief for Fox Reality Channel
Bob Boden, who steered Game Show Network programming in its earliest years and through the early part of the New Millennium is going to try his hand with one of cable's most-touted new channels.
Tuesday, Boden was announced as vice president for programming for Fox Reality Channel, which hits cable systems May 24.
On the same day, Fox Reality COO David Lyle announced carriage deals for FRC with Adelphia Communications and Insight Communications.
Boden, a CBS daytime executive in the 1980s, developed Game Show Network's original programming structure into live interactive playbreaks in the morning hours and in prime time.
After a stint with the former Fox Family Channel, Boden developed Greed for Dick Clark Productions and Fox in 1999 when the Millionaire era exploded in prime time on the broadcast networks.
He returned to GSN in 2001 and developed a half-dozen prime time originals for the network and made use of the extensive Goodson-Todman classics in a two-hour Black and White Overnight block.
Boden left the network in 2004 after a difference of opinion with GSN executives over the shift in direction away from conventional game show programming to a "network for games" philosophy.
In December 2004, Boden produced Game Show Millionaires as a one-hour documentary special for The TV Guide Channel.