In Los Angeles, it's I Love Lucy! Between 3 stations; KNXT (now KCBS), KTTV and KCOP, the show has been consistently on LA TV since 1951!! For a few years, it was only on Weekends, but for the most part, it's been somewhere on the M-F Schedule! Any others out there that have seem to be rerun forever? (I'm sure Andy Griffith in North Carolina has come a close second)
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Longest Running Re-Run in OTA Markets
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In the 90's KDSM FOX 17 aired Bewitched, Little House on the Prarie and The Andy Griffith Show for along time. Jump to 2021 the longest syndicated shows on broadcast television in Des Moines is Seinfeld (which started on WHO 13 then moved to KDSM and is still airing on that channel today) The Simpsons which began in reruns in the fall of 1994 is still currently airing but the episodes they air are more newer and hardly show the older episodes for some reason. The other shows are more newer like the big bang theory (since 2011) Two and a half men (since 2009) other than them it's more newer shows like the Goldbergs modern family and Mike & Molly.
WPVI has aired Wheel of Fortune (at the same timeslot of 7:30p) since its syndication premiere in 1983. However, Jeopardy! aired on KYW for its first season (Tic Tac Dough aired at 7p).
Not counting first-run syndicated shows, the oldest would probably be Seinfeld. It has aired here since its 1995 syndication debut; originally on WTXF at 7:30p, but now it airs on WPHL at 12:30a and 1a.
Not counting first-run syndicated shows, the oldest would probably be Seinfeld. It has aired here since its 1995 syndication debut; originally on WTXF at 7:30p, but now it airs on WPHL at 12:30a and 1a.
I believe "The King of Queens" has been in off-network syndication since 2003.
As for the longest-running rerun on the same station, KAZT still airs "The Andy Griffith Show," (two episodes weekly, it looks like, excluding the MeTV airings) and they have had the rights to the copyrighted episodes since 2002. Prior to that, it was on KPHO for many years.
The last time I saw older Black and White programs still running on OTA stations where I grew up was years ago - you could catch those types of shows on a few UHF channels which were run as independent, somewhat lower budget operations (I remember some of their "graphics" were so old-school and outdated compared to the VHF stations that were affiliated with major networks). Aside from broadcasts of NHL hockey games, they carried mostly classic TV series during the day and some older, lesser-known movies in the evenings. They also showed "thriller" movies on Saturday evenings, hosted live. One of them also carried cartoon programming in the afternoons through the week that was also hosted locally.
Those lower-budget independent UHF stations eventually became Fox and WB affiliates and with that, their programming changed completely. The one that became a Fox station did so at a really opportune time - just before popular programs like Married with Children and In Living Color went on the air.
Those lower-budget independent UHF stations eventually became Fox and WB affiliates and with that, their programming changed completely. The one that became a Fox station did so at a really opportune time - just before popular programs like Married with Children and In Living Color went on the air.
Part of that is KCOP has been simulcasting Decades programming in the middays (9am-1pm) for the last couple of months, and I Love Lucy is included in a block of sitcom classics that include The Lucy Show, Mary Tyler Moore, and Dick Van Dyke; I Love Lucy airs in the 10am hour. However, KCOP has broke from the Decades simulcast on certain days (today [8/16] being one of them) to air a mini-marathon of whatever shows Decades has rights to--today, they aired the Simon Baker early 2000s series, The Guardian, which also aired this past weekend as part of Decades' Weekend Binge marathon.
I don't think this KCOP-Decades daytime simulcast will last beyond early or mid-September, when the new fall schedules start to take hold. It's been nice counter-programming to what the other stations have been airing as of late.
I guess this will count: WBBJ in Jackson, TN uses Me TV for filler during non-network times on their CBS subchannel on 7.3, mostly 9-10 AM and 3-5 PM on weekdays and various non-sports times and late night on weekends. This may change with the fall schedule, but as it stands now the oldest show would be The Honeymooners on Sunday late nights.
I think it all depends on what sort of ratings these classic sitcoms are getting compared to the rebroadcasts from the FOX 11 Schedule they replaced. I do think The Tammi Mac Late Show from FOX Soul is a placeholder for Nick Cannon which begins on Sept. 27. Other than that, the only new show the Fox stations has in the wings is the You Bet Your Life reboot with Jay Leno.
WRAL/WRAZ in Raleigh has had Andy Griffith rights for decades. Up until fall 2006, WRAL was running an hour of Andy every morning at 10am. Nowadays I think it's used more for filler and rain-delay programming.
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