Where I live COX Channel 74 is all infomercials. They air 30 minute infomercials in 3 hour blocks. (Same infomercial 6 times in a row). Anyway lately after Midnight they've been showing classic TV shows - The Dick Van Dyke Show, Petticoat Junction, and The Lucy Show. These are the actual shows {and not infomercials to buy the shows on DVD). It's good that these old shows are on, but they're being shown in the wrong resolution. The picture fills the screen and everyone looks short and fat. I have no idea what the source of these shows are as there is no network logo on the screen during the shows. And just like the infomercials the shows are being listed on the program guide in 2 three hour blocks 12AM-3AM and 3AM-6AM. Anyone else seeing such a thing in other parts of the country or on other providers?
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The Dick Van Dyke Show, Petticoat Junction, and The Lucy Show
- Thread starter MarcB
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An observation: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was definitely an 18-49 show. I'm not sure how I'd classify the others.
Decades TV airs those three shows. Maybe they have an agreement with Decades to air them.
Another thought, i think some episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Lucy Show are in the public domain. Don't know about Petticoat Junction. Maybe they are just showing the public domain episodes that they don't have to pay royalties to air.
Another thought, i think some episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Lucy Show are in the public domain. Don't know about Petticoat Junction. Maybe they are just showing the public domain episodes that they don't have to pay royalties to air.
Petticoat Junction has some episodes that are in public domain as well. The Andy Griffith Show and The Beverly Hillbillies also have PD episodes, so I'm surprised those don't show up.
That's a strange thought though of a station where they fill time with no infomercials with actual TV shows, even if they are PD. Does that mean that they consider PD shows, even thugh they may have been considered classics, to be the absolute bottom of the barrel in programming, even below infomercials?
I'm sure it works about like Christian stations that are primarily preaching/teaching stations that fill unsold slots with music. I guess they could run bonus plays but I suppose the thinking is if they play these shows and you like them, you'll be back and perhaps you'll get hooked in to one of their informercial advertisers and call that toll free number.
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