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DIFFERENT KINDA TOPIC... How does TV Syndication work? Local + Network?

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thatradioguy

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Hello!

Just curious... and maybe someone who reads this forum can help explain...

I'll use FOX Broadcasting for example.

Here in my market, normal fox television station... news at 5/6/10p... ect... primetime shows... american idol... house... ect...

How do they do it all? The local station that is? Switching back and forth from local content to syndicated network? ect? Is it anything like we do in News/Talk radio?

I imagine the network feed comes from Satellite... but when hitting local spots then getting back into the network... timing...ect... what kinda automation system and equipment do that?

I've searched my hardest to even find network show "clocks" like we have in radio... nothing I can come up with... though radio show clocks are readily available.

Just looking to learn as much as possible...

Thanks.
 
Not knowing exactly, but I imagine its the nearly same in television as in radio. The network sends out a pulse tone to cue the local station's automated switcher to drop the local spot in, though some stations still do it manually (like WTVA-9-Tupelo, which sometimes is absolutely unable to hit their marks on-time. I've seen them come out of a late-starting commercial break 5 or 10 seconds after the network cuts back to a show). Same for syndicated programming, like Wheel of Fortune...the tape has a pulse tone to automatically cue the switcher (or the master control operator to hit his switch)to drop the spot in.
 
haven't never worked master control in a station, just relaying what friends have said/what i've seen...if its network programming its done much the same way a live sporting event is on radio (Live and you push a button for the commercials). As for the syndicated stuff....in radio (usually the case with the countdown shows) each segment is it's own track on a CD or download but on TV it's one long 30 or 60 minute tape and you put a button (or its automated) for the commercials that play over the tape (which is why you still sometimes see commercials clip the return of a taped program). However I have seen programming that is like the radio countdown shows where you have to stop the tape and re-cue it to the next segment.
 
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