How come?

[EJL]

How come shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, The Steve Harvey Show, Malcolm and Eddie, Dharma and Greg, and The Nanny waited an extra year to hit synication. A shows usually hits synication after it's fourth season, but all of thease show hit synication afther it's fifth season how come?

[Sean Snow]

Well, I always thought it was the 5th season. Anyway, that's not long considering FOL went into syndication in it's 7th season and "Three's Company" went into it in it's 6th

[Lance Link]

Look at The Weakest Link . It's been on several months and it's already in syndication on Pax TV .

[PPatters]

Syndication means that affiliate stations and independant stations have a choice to pick up the show. "Weakest Link" is not in syndication. It is on the PAX network (an NBC owned station) in re-runs.

[Pavan]

Originally posted by Sean Snow:
Well, I always thought it was the 5th season. Anyway, that's not long considering FOL went into syndication in it's 7th season and "Three's Company" went into it in it's 6th

Three's Company went into syndication during the 5th season.

[Sean Snow]

Originally posted by pavanbadal:
Three's Company went into syndication during the 5th season.



But The TC Offical Site Lists It At 1982, the shows sixth season

[TV Guy]

"Three's Company" started in syndication in the fall of 1982, it's sixth season. During its fifth season, ABC reran earlier episodes weekdays at 11:00 am.

Networks used to strip (run five days a week) their own hits before they went into syndication pretty frequently in the 60s and 70s, but by the late 80s, the practice had pretty much stopped. I remember "All in the Family", "M*A*S*H", and "Alice" running on CBS daytime; "The Brady Bunch", "Happy Days", and "Laverne & Shirley" on ABC daytime; "CHiPs", "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" on NBC daytime. I remember that NBC showed daytime reruns of "Full House" while it was still in primetime on ABC, which was extremely unusual. It was only for a few months, and the next fall it went into syndication.

There really aren't any hard and fast rules for a show going into syndication, other than that local stations prefer packages with at least 100 episodes. Whether a show goes into syndication during its fifth or sixth year often depends on market conditions. If there's a glut of shows entering the syndication market during a certain year, syndicators will sometimes hold a show back a year if they think they can get a higher price by waiting.

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[factsoflife]

A show hits syndication after 100 episodes, some shows take four years to get htere, some five years. But four yeas is the standard for a show to go into syndication if you don't have at least four years then you probrally won't get syndicated.

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