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What's the deal with syndication?

  • 27-05-2009 4:04am
    #1
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
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    Can anyone explain what syndication means? I couldn't understand the wikipedia explanation, so was wondering if someone could explain in simple terms what syndication is.


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  • #2
    Brimmy
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    When a tv series is sold after its run for repeats on other networks where it wasn't first shown. You need to have a minimum of 100 episodes as this allows roughly a 5 month schedule minimum with one episode shown per day (Monday through Friday).


  • #3
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Thank you - that makes a lot more sense than anything I've seen online.


  • #4
    armada104
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    Except it's not really right. Syndication is when a series is sold to a individual local stations for broadcast outside of network broadcast hours.

    Syndicated programmes can take the form of repeats of programmes that were originally broadcast on the networks or programming produced specifically for syndication. A good example of this is Oprah, which doesn't air on any specific network in the US, but on a variety of local stations.

    If all of the above is nonsense to you, this might explain it. From Wikipedia:

    The United States has a decentralized, market-oriented television system. Unlike many other countries, the United States has no national broadcast programming services. Instead, local media markets have their own television stations, which may be affiliated or owned and operated by a TV network. Stations may sign affiliation agreements with one of the national networks. Except in very small markets with few stations, affiliation agreements are usually exclusive: If a station is an NBC affiliate, the station would not air programs from ABC, CBS or other networks.

    However, to ensure local presences in television broadcasting, federal law restricts the amount of network programming local stations can run. Until the 1970s and '80s, local stations supplemented network programming with a good deal of their own produced shows. Today, however, many stations produce only local news shows. They fill the rest of their schedule with syndicated shows, or material produced independently and sold to individual stations in each local market.


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