When and how many times do Simpsons reruns air in your area?

[nomadcowatbk]

Some places show it twice a day/night where others only air it once during the weekend. I've heard the current deal is OTA exclusive unlike the Adult Swim deals with King of the Hill and the Seth McFarlane(sp) toons.

KCMI (Ind) in Kansas City airs it once in the weekday evening before Family Guy reruns, used to be twice a day
KOMU (NBC) in Columbia MO airs it once a week on Sunday evenings
KTTV LA (Fox O&O) and WNYW NYC(Fox O&O) air it twice weekdays

 

[Iowan]

I don't think The Simpsons have ever been on cable.

Here in the Quad Cities, KGCW airs The Simpsons Monday thru Friday at 6pm.

Maybe repeats should air on My Network TV...

 

[Mario500]

WJTC-TV in the designated market area of Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida usually schedules "The Simpsons" for broadcast on Monday through Thursday at 8:30 PM and I assume the station will have the program scheduled for broadcast on Fridays after the end of the high school football season, when the station usually broadcasts local high school football games live on Friday evenings.

 

[Markxxx]

WFLD FOX Chicago runs them at 5pm, 6pm and 10:30pm (Mon - Fri)

 

[nomadcowatbk]

http://www.snpp.com/guides/stations.html Don't know how update that site is

Simpsons is cash show, stations can show it as little or as much as they want. Could a station create a Simpsons subchannel?

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Do the stations in your area have a preference for certain seasons or episodes?

 

[Mario500]

http://www.snpp.com/guides/stations.html Don't know how update that site is

Simpsons is cash show, stations can show it as little or as much as they want. Could a station create a Simpsons subchannel?

The site was last updated on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006, according to the text near the bottom of the page.

 

[The Outsider]

KFXA Cedar Rapids ran 2 episodes weekdays in the 5 o'clock hour for at least the past ten years or so. This year they changed it by running an episode at 5 and another at 6:30, with back to back Family Guy in between.

 

[FreddyE1977]

WPMY-TV 22 in Pittsburgh, 6PM and again at 7 with an episode of Family Guy sandwiched in between.

 

[Markxxx]

http://www.snpp.com/guides/stations.html Don't know how update that site is

Simpsons is cash show, stations can show it as little or as much as they want. Could a station create a Simpsons subchannel?

The site was last updated on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006, according to the text near the bottom of the page.

Actually that was the last time that page was updated. The main page says "Last updated on October 13, 2011 by Don Del Grande"

That site was generally a place to repost the capsules posted on Usenet when it was still being used for something other than filesharing

 

[Mario500]

http://www.snpp.com/guides/stations.html Don't know how update that site is

Simpsons is cash show, stations can show it as little or as much as they want. Could a station create a Simpsons subchannel?

The site was last updated on Tuesday, February 21st, 2006, according to the text near the bottom of the page.

Actually that was the last time that page was updated. The main page says "Last updated on October 13, 2011 by Don Del Grande"

That site was generally a place to repost the capsules posted on Usenet when it was still being used for something other than filesharing

When I typed "site", I was referring to the linked page.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

Do the stations in your area have a preference for certain seasons or episodes?

In SF, where the show airs on KBCW (Ch. 44/ Cable 12), they basically show the most recent 3 seasons over and over, except for sweeps months (when they show "classic" older episodes) and holidays like Halloween and Xmas. I assumed this was dictated by the syndicator -- are you saying each local station has leeway as to which episodes they show? It's very annoying to see the same episodes repeated -- sometimes multiple times a month -- when there are 20+ seasons available, and some episodes never get shown. A couple of years ago I saw the "Evita" parody (Lisa runs for class president) 5 times in one month.

This is why I'm partial to the Me-TV model of showing the enitre run of a show, no matter how many seasons, in chronological order.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Simpsons is cash only show, stations pay cash for it unlike most syndicated shows with are barter deals. Some places only show it once a week while others show it three times a day.

 

[Markieo]

Fox says they make a Simpsons channel, after the 500th episode, or if it doesn't get cancelled sooner, the end of the 25th season. At least 11 24 hour days with no repeats!

 

[TexasTom]

In SF, where the show airs on KBCW (Ch. 44/ Cable 12), they basically show the most recent 3 seasons over and over, except for sweeps months (when they show "classic" older episodes) and holidays like Halloween and Xmas. I assumed this was dictated by the syndicator -- are you saying each local station has leeway as to which episodes they show?

There's a limit to the freedom that the stations have -- yes, they can choose which episodes to show, and when to show those episodes. However, I think that the way cash deals work in syndication is that you get to run each episode "x" times, so I suspect it is simply the case that stations have used up most (or all) of their allotted runs of the older episodes, and thus have to be more sparing in showing those older episodes.

My understanding (someone in the industry please correct me as needed) is that "The Simpsons" is still in it's first syndication cycle, which means that these are the deals that were negotiated way back in the mid-nineties, when no one really expected the show to still be in first run a decade and a half later. I assume that the longer it stays in the first cycle, the more runs of each episode the stations get...but I have no idea as to how the mechanics of that would actually work.

 

[Mario500]

My understanding (someone in the industry please correct me as needed) is that "The Simpsons" is still in it's first syndication cycle, which means that these are the deals that were negotiated way back in the mid-nineties, when no one really expected the show to still be in first run a decade and a half later. I assume that the longer it stays in the first cycle, the more runs of each episode the stations get...but I have no idea as to how the mechanics of that would actually work.

The first syndication cycle was a national cycle from 1994 to 1999, according to the Simpsons Archive.

http://www.snpp.com/guides/lisa-5.html