I’ve got USA on right now and they are showing a House episode from less then two weeks ago. They have on ‘Risky Business’ which first aired on October 31.
I thought that they waited a year or so to have new episodes in syndication. Is this just something they do for House, or are they doing this with a lot of shows now a days?
I know its been done with House for the last couple of seasons - and it’s regularly scheduled, so that Monday’s new episode on Fox is shown on USA 11 days later. I think there were a couple of other network shows that did the same thing, but I can’t think of which. I don’t think it’s really syndication (which usually involves episodes being offered to multiple stations) but more of an attempt to imitate cable scheduling, where a new episode of a cable series is broadcast multiple times.
That’s not syndication, that’s a rebroadcasting agreement.
Syndication is when your local CBS affiliate is airing House at 4 in the afternoon.
Nowadays, there are agreements with cable networks to rebroadcast the show a few days after it originally airs. It’s a way to increase audience and have live viewers instead of people DVRing the show.
Syndication is usually involved in creating a package of shows. In general, about 100 is the goal, and once a show hits four seasons, the package is sold (sometimes, before). But a syndicated show doesn’t air until after all network reruns of the season have aired.
Not necessarily. There are lots of first-run syndicated shows out there. Star Trek: The Next Generation was syndicated from day one, and its success led to a number of other such shows. The infamous “Baywatch” was cancelled by NBC after one season but ran another 9 years in first-run syndication.
You’re right; I was referring to the OP, which was about the syndication of network shows. There are hundreds of first-run syndicated shows out there, though most are reality shows like Judge Judy. The days of first-run syndicated dramas, though, seem to be past, since there are few stations willing to air them.