NBCUniversal is exiting the syndicated planet

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Reruns of "Friends" would get a higher audience level.

In fairness, so would a test pattern.

 

[PTBoardOp93]

I would assume many stations will keep running Karamo and Wilkos in re-runs. Better programming probably doesn't exist.

There's still stations running Judge Judy, and there hasn't had a new episode (under that title) in 5 years. There's still stations running Maury re-runs, and Mr. Povich retired 4 years ago. It was only last year that NBCU stopped distributing Jerry Springer reruns, and that show had ended in 2018.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I would assume many stations will keep running Karamo and Wilkos in re-runs.

I doubt they have the legal right to. Syndication agreements spell things like that out, and Comcast has good lawyers, so "but you didn't send us any new shows" isn't going to be a useful argument.

There's still stations running Judge Judy, and there hasn't had a new episode (under that title) in 5 years. There's still stations running Maury re-runs, and Mr. Povich retired 4 years ago. It was only last year that NBCU stopped distributing Jerry Springer reruns, and that show had ended in 2018.

Because those reruns are still being syndicated.

Judge Judy is still distributed by CBS Media Ventures.
Maury Povich is distributed by NBCUniversal, and is likely going to remain so, since the announcement cancelling first-run shows also clearly said they would continue to distribute library shows.

You are correct that NBCUniversal stopped syndicating Jerry Springer reruns, but it was longer back than you remembered ... September 2024.

In any event, we have not heard anything about Wilkos' and Karamo's shows continuing to be distributed in reruns. I suppose it will depend on whether or not NBCUniversal thinks there are enough of them "in the can" to make it feasible. Until an announcement is made, we're just going to have to wait and see, and not presume anything.

 

[Megatron]

Wilko's has 19 years of content like Maury and you're not badies daddy. Access Hollywood was cleared in year 4 on WOTV at 5:30PM, as I don't remember it in 96-98 maybe it was aired in late night on WXMI FOX17 or WZZM will never know as no one that works for the local TV stations don't know or care and would have to find an old TV Guide or newpaper to find out.

Access Hollywood was larely aired in 7:30PM from 2001-2016 WZZM 2001-2004 aired in at 10:30AM in 2000-2001 season WZZM went with ET's spinoff The Insider in fall of 2004, WOTV/WOOD TV 7:30PM 2004-2016 when WOOD TV lost Friends to FOX17 in June 2006 took Access Hollywood and then moved back to sister station WOTV in 2016 when WOOD TV decided to air a 7PM newscast and Access Hollywood moved to 7PM 2016-2019 and was downgraded to 5:30PM 2019-2022 & final season 2022-2023 4PM. And Scripps returned Access Hollywood to 7:30PM 2023-Present. Access Hollywood had a pretty good run for 30 years from 1996-2026.

I'm guessing FOX17 puts Modern Family to a full hour come fall in my opinion I could be wrong on that I don't know if they could get Extra which has been with LIN/Media General/Nexstar since day 1 in 1994 or TMZ also been on LIN/MG/Nexstar as well since 2007. TMZ makes sense for FOX17 since FOX airs TMZ specials every few months in primetime.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Wilko's has 19 years of content like Maury and you're not badies daddy.

Well, you just proved how little time I spend tracking daytime television! You're absolutely correct ... now that I had a reason to look it up, his show did start way back in 2007.

So there are enough shows in the library for NBCUniversal to keep selling it to stations that want to carry it in reruns. Unfortunately, Karamo Brown isn't as lucky; he only got four seasons after succeeding Maury.

Access Hollywood had a pretty good run for 30 years from 1996-2026.

What I still wish we knew is what kind of affiliate station pushback there might be to the cancellation. If the stations still believe there is value in it, they could (maybe, who knows) enable that scenario I suggested earlier, in the posts Lance had to delete to defuse the whole argumentative part of this thread.

Someone -- be it the NBC Owned Stations divisions or a third party -- could acquire the intellectual property and continue it in production. But any such move will have to happen relatively quickly as the new season is now less than six months away.

 

[Megatron]

I had an old TV Guide from Dec, 5-11 1998 WOTV did air Access Hollywood at 5:30PM in 1998-99 season lead-in was the last season of Hard Copy at 5PM.

 

[408listener]

Wilko's has 19 years of content like Maury and you're not badies daddy. Access Hollywood was cleared in year 4 on WOTV at 5:30PM, as I don't remember it in 96-98 maybe it was aired in late night on WXMI FOX17 or WZZM will never know as no one that works for the local TV stations don't know or care and would have to find an old TV Guide or newpaper to find out.

Access Hollywood was larely aired in 7:30PM from 2001-2016 WZZM 2001-2004 aired in at 10:30AM in 2000-2001 season WZZM went with ET's spinoff The Insider in fall of 2004, WOTV/WOOD TV 7:30PM 2004-2016 when WOOD TV lost Friends to FOX17 in June 2006 took Access Hollywood and then moved back to sister station WOTV in 2016 when WOOD TV decided to air a 7PM newscast and Access Hollywood moved to 7PM 2016-2019 and was downgraded to 5:30PM 2019-2022 & final season 2022-2023 4PM. And Scripps returned Access Hollywood to 7:30PM 2023-Present. Access Hollywood had a pretty good run for 30 years from 1996-2026.

I'm guessing FOX17 puts Modern Family to a full hour come fall in my opinion I could be wrong on that I don't know if they could get Extra which has been with LIN/Media General/Nexstar since day 1 in 1994 or TMZ also been on LIN/MG/Nexstar as well since 2007. TMZ makes sense for FOX17 since FOX airs TMZ specials every few months in primetime.

Having obsessively watched the first 3 seasons of Wilkos (owing to way too much free time as I finished high school/started college around the great recession), I'm sad to say, "ain't happening".

Why? Soon after Wilkos and Springer moved to Connecticut in 2009, the Chicago era has been taken off reruns, with very few episodes (to my recollection) available on the Nosey streaming platform/FAST channel. NBC has aggressively been making copyright claims with YouTube on videos no matter how long or short. And even the 10th anniversary specials from 2017 largely skipped over the Chicago era. Given how much different Steve Wilkos did his show prior to the move East (a lot more yelling and in-your-face), these are all signs he's distancing himself from that time. (One likely reason, the firing of executive producer Richard Dominick after Season 1.)