HOW MANY TV LIBRARIES ARE THERE & HOW ARE THEY GIVEN OUT?

[gregg75]

All these posts about Me-TV having this library and RTV that one, just how many are there
(very few I would think)? Seems like after 7 or 8 are claimed, they'd all be covered.

Can't librarys be shared or pieced out?
Can't individual stations just pick the shows they want?
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Antenna TV to pick the 15 shows they want instead of tieing
up the whole library?

 

[mysticnitekatt]

Unlike the old days of broadcast syndication,and even cable, outfits like MeTV and AntennaTV are making exclusive or first-refusal deals for a complete distributors library of titles

It makes business sense for a network to deal with only one or two studios - it allows them to not only pick the best shows, but keep any ones they are not airing,out of the hands of a rival!

Off the top of my head, the distributors include.

CBS Television Syndication
(Includes Paramount,Desilu, Viacom, NTA/Republic,Spelling and Worldvision )

20th Television
(Includes the MTM Library)

NBC-Universal
(Universal,MCA,Revue,and Paramount Films pre-1948)

Sony Pictures Television
(Columbia Pictures,Screen Gems,Columbia Pictures Television,Embasy Television/Norman Lear,
Barry-Enright and Chuck Barris Production)

Warner Brothers Television
(Warner Brothers, MGM Titles not owned by MGM,Hanna Barbara-Ruby Spears,
Lorimar/Telepictures , Monogram-Alied Artists)

MGM Television
(MGM/UA,American International Pictures,Orion,Filmways,Ziv Television)

DL TAFFNER
(Includes U.S. Rights to Thames Television Library)

CARTLON
(THE ITC LIBRARY)

PETER ROGERS ORGANIZATION
(Various)

 

[DToTheJ]

DL TAFFNER (Includes U.S. Rights to Thames Television Library)

I did not know that. To this day, I thought they were just "Three's Company." Looks like they take care of Benny Hill and Danger Mouse, too.

 

[Bluenoser]

DL TAFFNER (Includes U.S. Rights to Thames Television Library)

I did not know that. To this day, I thought they were just "Three's Company." Looks like they take care of Benny Hill and Danger Mouse, too.

FremantleMedia must have something to do with Taffner too...on the Benny Hill reruns shown on Vision TV north of the border, the FremantleMedia logo pops up at the end after the Thames skyline ident

 

[1069_KIFR]

7. They are given out via a lottery system.

 

[mysticnitekatt]

DL TAFFNER (Includes U.S. Rights to Thames Television Library)

I did not know that. To this day, I thought they were just "Three's Company." Looks like they take care of Benny Hill and Danger Mouse, too.

FremantleMedia must have something to do with Taffner too...on the Benny Hill reruns shown on Vision TV north of the border, the FremantleMedia logo pops up at the end after the Thames skyline ident

FremantleMedia owns Thames Television now.

 

[mysticnitekatt]

7. They are given out via a lottery system.

er,No

 

[gregg75]

Well with all these libraries available, RTV should be on the phones right now trying to
grab a few of them. Even The Gong Show would be better than what they have on now.

 

[carolinaradio]

There's Classic Media, who RTV has a deal with.

 

[ansky212]

The funny thing about RTV is that if you go to their website (www.myretrotv.com) and click on 'Shows', the list is blank. They are probably too embarrassed to even list the stuff they air on their website.

 

[mysticnitekatt]

Well with all these libraries available, RTV should be on the phones right now trying to
grab a few of them. Even The Gong Show would be better than what they have on now.

Some of these libraries are already tied-up with other networks,or are not being offered to broadcast outlets.

 

[mysticnitekatt]

The funny thing about RTV is that if you go to their website (www.myretrotv.com) and click on 'Shows', the list is blank. They are probably too embarrassed to even list the stuff they air on their website.

They just haven't updated all site completely yet.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Unlike the old days of broadcast syndication,and even cable, outfits like MeTV and AntennaTV are making exclusive or first-refusal deals for a complete distributors library of titles

It makes business sense for a network to deal with only one or two studios - it allows them to not only pick the best shows, but keep any ones they are not airing,out of the hands of a rival!

I've suspected that is what TV Land did with so many shows that they had the rights to and did little or nothing with, although I've read where now they only buy the rights to a limited number of episodes for a limited time, which would explain why they keep showing the same ones over and over again.