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Do 0nly big companies syndicate programing now?

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mississippi fan

I have been a fan of syndication since the Jackson, Miss. market got its first independent station back in 1984. Even now I still like to see what stations pick up locally & regionally come September of each year. In the 80's to get a specific show from a company, did the station have to do a blind bid against the other market stations to get the specific program they wanted. The one with the highest bid won the rights for so many years or so many repeats. But the station also had to purchase a lesser program from same company as part of the deal. To get a good one, you had to buy a not so popular program. Getting back to today's era, I saw where Houston's KUBE 57 dropped its Spanish language program and went back to an independent format in 2010 (?) I think. Some of that programing included Hunter, Magnum PI, Rockford Files, Quincy, A Team as well as comedies as Family Ties, Happy Days Again, Laverne & Shirley & Co. and Mork n Mindy. If I remember right, didn't MCA market those hour long shows and Paramount the sitcoms back in the 80's? I was wondering who syndicates these shows now. Like where MeTV & Antenna get their programing from. A Denver independent had Star Trek & Next Generation, Charlie's Angels, Starksy & Hutch and Fantasy Island the past couple of years. Are these program now purchased in package deals the same as the for sunchannel's as over-the-air channels? Any info would be appreciated.
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MCA-TV is now Comcast/NBC-Universal, and Paramount is now CBS-Paramount, but they still syndicate their old shows, along with those of formerly independent companies they have taken over (like Viacom, Worldvision, and Republic/NTA.) Same goes for Time-Warner (including Turner, MGM, Hanna-Barbera and Gawd knows what else) and 20th Century Fox. I suspect though that a lot of the smaller syndicators of the old days have been either squeezed out or gobbled up by the too-big-to-fail companies.
 
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