Seinfeld... You Can Go Home Again!

[DToTheJ]

WPIX, which originally landed rights to air reruns of "Seinfeld" when the show first went into off-network syndication, will once again retain the show, after the current deal with WNYW expires in March 2011, at which point "Seinfeld" would have aired on WNYW for thirteen years.

Full story:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/452049-WPIX_New_York_Nabs_Seinfeld_.php

 

[MarcB]

What a horrible show. It just needs to go away.

 

[Capemill]

I guess this means WNYW's getting The Big Bang Theory.

 

[kms575]

What a horrible show. It just needs to go away.

Are you serious?? That show is genius! Name another show since then that has even come close to Seinfeld.

 

[DToTheJ]

Interestingly - very interestingly - this morning, at a subway station, I saw for the first time, advertising for "Seinfeld" on Fox 5. Very interesting considering this recent development that they will no longer be airing this show in about a year from now.

 

[Gregg]

And I noticed there's a big Seinfeld illuminated sign inside a bus shelter on Columbus Ave. and 59th Street.

But I also wondered about the air times... 11:30pm and 12:30am? I thought the show was more popular than that, especially among New Yorkers. OK, maybe Channel 5 is trying to counter-program against Leno and Letterman at 11:30. Let's remember that this is why the Conan/Fox deal fell through. Local Fox stations around the country buy expensive sitcoms to run at 11 and 11:30, but get to keep the revenue from all the commercials. If Fox started airing Conan from 11-Midnight, local Fox stations would lose that revenue.

But another airing at 12:30am? How many viewers are awake at that hour? And no airing in early evening?


Gregg
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[DToTheJ]

11:30pm and 12:30am? I thought the show was more popular than that, especially among New Yorkers...

I don't understand why they don't go full-out and just air "Seinfeld" back-to-back. Move "The Simpsons" (or whatever airs at midnight) to after "Seinfeld."

 

[MarcB]

I don't understand why they don't go full-out and just air "Seinfeld" back-to-back. Move "The Simpsons" (or whatever airs at midnight) to after "Seinfeld."

WTXX aka The CT in Hartford does something similar. At 11PM it's Raymond. Then 11:30-12:30 it's Seinfeld. Then at 12:30AM it's Raymond.