I have Verizon fios. They have a channel called Z Living. It's morphed from a health and fitness channel to a rerun channel.

It does still have a bunch of Yoga programs in the mornings. They had other health focused programs. I think on Friday early evening they have a live talk show. Looks like a local quality show.

The morphing started with the addition of public domain content. Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Bonanza, those still run at midnight. Also Ozzie and Harriet ran overnight but now runs in the morning. The episodes look like the new transfers that are now available on DVD and streaming.

They picked up Laugh-in, The Carol Burnett Show, and Red Skelton Show. Those run early evening.

One odd entry is The Real McCoys. That show not only runs weekdays after Ozzie and Harriet but for hours and hours on Saturday and Sunday.

There's other programs including Space 1999 which runs on Sunday mornings.

Have you seen this channel and what do you think about it?

It used to be owned by Essel Group that owns Zee TV (a major TV channel from India). I believe Dish Network was the primary supporter of this channel originally, when Dish was the large distributor for Zee TV programming in the US for its international customers. However, after a fallout between Dish and Zee TV (when the Zee channels were removed) and Zee started its own streaming service, Z Living was removed from Dish Network and Sling streaming.

It made it onto Fios and other platforms but now it is owned by another company, NIA Broadcasting, after it was sold from Essel Group.

I'm kind of surprised it is still on the air as it has become a public domain rerun channel, but maybe it is free.

Normally (I think) a channel would get in legal trouble running PD programming from copyrighted DVD sources. With Ozzie & H, particularly if they're not cutting out the music.

I know only early seasons of the Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Bonanza lapsed into PD. And with Hillbillies and Bonanza, at least, the themes are not PD.

I suspected the entire Real MoCoys series lapsed into PD; this seems to confirm it.

Normally (I think) a channel would get in legal trouble running PD programming from copyrighted DVD sources. With Ozzie & H, particularly if they're not cutting out the music.

I know only early seasons of the Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Bonanza lapsed into PD. And with Hillbillies and Bonanza, at least, the themes are not PD.

I suspected the entire Real MoCoys series lapsed into PD; this seems to confirm it.

With Ozzie and Harriet it's possible they have a deal with who ever distributes it. Now that many streaming services are running the DVD quality episodes. With The Real McCoys the episodes always start with a FilmRise logo. There there must be a deal with FilmRise. There's only a few public domain shows on the channel. They generally run at midnight (eastern time).

It used to be owned by Essel Group that owns Zee TV (a major TV channel from India). I believe Dish Network was the primary supporter of this channel originally, when Dish was the large distributor for Zee TV programming in the US for its international customers. However, after a fallout between Dish and Zee TV (when the Zee channels were removed) and Zee started its own streaming service, Z Living was removed from Dish Network and Sling streaming.

It made it onto Fios and other platforms but now it is owned by another company, NIA Broadcasting, after it was sold from Essel Group.

I'm kind of surprised it is still on the air as it has become a public domain rerun channel, but maybe it is free.

Thanks for the history lesson on Z Living!

With Ozzie and Harriet it's possible they have a deal with who ever distributes it. Now that many streaming services are running the DVD quality episodes. With The Real McCoys the episodes always start with a FilmRise logo. There there must be a deal with FilmRise. There's only a few public domain shows on the channel. They generally run at midnight (eastern time).

Locally when the McCoys ran locally last year, I saw that FilmRise logo. The quality looked too to be PD, so the ownership must have bounced around and eventually landed with them.

Whatever entity remastered the episodes, it appears they were kept in 4:3; at least they were shown here that way.