Greater All-Time Network of the Big 3? ABC; CBS; NBC

[L.Kizzle]

I thought long and hard about adding FOX but they just don't have the longevity and classics.
I think I came up with about 43-45 shows per network. I couldn't add everything, mostly the timeless shows.

Which network would win the all-time war? Feel free to add if you see a show that isn't here.


NBC
A Different World
A-Team
America's Got Talent
Bonanza
Bullwinkle Show
Cheers
ChiPs
Columbo
Cosby Show
Days of Our Lives
Dragnet
ER
Family Ties
Fear Factor
Flip Wilson Show
Fraiser
Fresh Prince
Friday Night Videos
Friends
Golden Girls
Hill Street Blues
Hollywood Squares
I Dream of Jeanie
I Spy
Jeopardy
Law and Order
Little House on the Prarie
Mad About You
Miami Vice
Midnight Special
NBA Inside Stuff
Night Court
Price is Right
Rockford Files
Sanford and Son
Saved by the Bell
Seinfeld
Saturday Night Live
Smurfs
Today
Tonight Show
Unsolved Mysteries
Voice
Will & Grace


CBS
60 Minutes
Andy Griffith Show
As the World Turns
Barnaby Jones
Beverly Hillbillies
Big Brother
Captain Kangaroo
Carol Burnett Show
CSI
Dallas
Designing Woman
Dick Van Dyke Show
Dukes of Hazzard
Ed Sullivan Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
Lassie
Gilligan's Island
Good Times
Guiding Light
Gunsmoke
Hawaii Five-O
I Love Lucy
Jeffersons
Knots Landing
Kojak
Magnum PI
Mannix
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mission Impossible
MASH
Maude
Murder She Wrote
Murphy Brown
NCIS
Perry Mason
Rescue 911
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Survivor
Twilight Zone
Walker Texas Ranger
Waltons
WKRP in Cincinnati
Young and the Restless


ABC
All My Children
American Bandstand
America's Funniest Home Videos
Barney Miller
Benson
Bewitched
Black-ish
Brady Bunch
Charlie's Angles
Coach
Dancing With the Stars
Diff'rent Strokes
Dougie Howser, MD
Dynasty
Desperate Housewives
General Hospital
Good Morning America
Grey's Anatomy
Family Fued
Family Matters
Fantasy Island
Flintstones
Full House
Happy Days
Home Improvement
Jetsons
Kung Fu
Laverne & Shirley
MacGyver
Mork & Mindy
Moonlighting
My Wife & Kids
NYPD Blue
One Life to Live
Patridge Family
Roots
Roseanne
Soap
Taxi
That Girl
Welcome Back Kotter
Who's Line Is It Anyway
Who's The Boss
Wonder Years

[FKAri]

Is it based on what I'd watch or cultural impact? In terms of the latter, it's between CBS and NBC.

[Jasper]

for me they all had a special place. When I was 4-6 years old NBC had a late afternoon movie... always in front of the color TV.

ABC had televised the first NBA games , and Wide world of Sports, and American Sportsman w/godey

[L.Kizzle]

Is it based on what I'd watch or cultural impact? In terms of the latter, it's between CBS and NBC.

A little bit of both. Who had the better programming throughout the years.

[FultzNationRISE]

A little bit of both. Who had the better programming throughout the years.

For my personal taste it would be:

NBC
ABC
CBS

[John8204]

Gotta go with CBS

CBS
60 Minutes
Big Brother
Carol Burnett Show
Dick Van Dyke Show
Ed Sullivan Show
Gilligan's Island
I Love Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Survivor
Twilight Zone

[ILLsmak]

It's funny cuz I loved NBA on NBC. I also loved Jay Leno. It's a nice amount of work to put all those shows up there. I suppose I am very pro NBC, but Peacock has 2 many ads. The best streams are like Reelz where you don't even have to ffwd through ads, they are just cut out.

I forgot what network had stuff like xmen on Sat morning. I think it might've been fox? That was one of the few times I switched it up. But yea... Golden girls BANGER. Seinfeld BANGER. Price is right BANGER. They held you down from sunup to down. UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. Don't hate. Dude in his trench coat. There were some OK sit coms on the other channels, but overall yea has to be da NBC. Now that stuff is irrelevant, tho. I kinda wonder if this has a lot to do with when you grew up as well, tho.

Edit: see

color TV.

-Smak

[Norcaliblunt]

MTV in its hey day was the greatest mainstream cable network channel ever.

You can talk all you want about the big basic networks and their programming but networks like MTV, CNN, and ESPN are what revolutionized television

[Thorpesaurous]

NBC.

That NBC list is missing The Office too. And their late night material is dominant, considering they also had the best of the Letterman and Conan eras.

They're almost certainly the worst of the three on the news front.

[TheMan]

NBC during the 90s was the shit, Seinfeld, SNL and the NBA on NBC

[TheMan]

MTV in its hey day was the greatest mainstream cable network channel ever.

You can talk all you want about the big basic networks and their programming but networks like MTV, CNN, and ESPN are what revolutionized television

I hate MTV with a passion. Not only did they ride and promote heavy metal (mostly glam metal TBH) during the late 80s up until it became "uncool" But they pretended like they never were into metal once grunge became the in thing. Two faced c*nts, glad they're irrelevant now

[FultzNationRISE]

A few omissions I’ll add:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a Saturday morning institution for CBS in the late 80s/early 90s.

Boy Meets World and Step by Step had long runs as TGIF classics for ABC. Not quite as iconic as Full House and Family Matters but still very popular in their heyday.

Wheel of Fortune is game show royalty and altho it’s been aired on multiple networks it originated with NBC.

[L.Kizzle]

MTV in its hey day was the greatest mainstream cable network channel ever.

You can talk all you want about the big basic networks and their programming but networks like MTV, CNN, and ESPN are what revolutionized television

MTV hasn't been relevant in two decades. CNN and ESPN will never go away from sports and news.
USA Network and TBS are probably greater stations than MTV.

[jstern]

for me they all had a special place. When I was 4-6 years old NBC had a late afternoon movie... always in front of the color TV.

ABC had televised the first NBA games , and Wide world of Sports, and American Sportsman w/godey

GTFOH. There's no way your family had a color TV when you were 4 to 6 years old. That's how we know you're an alt.

The first color tv came out in 1953-54, and cost over $10,000 when adjusted for inflation.

[dankok8]

NBC

Seinfeld, The Office, SNL, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Law and Order... I mean got dayyum!