>You and Charles both mentioned syndication. Is that a TV term or just US TV term, cos I've no idea what it means? I've heard it before, mind.
Well, you see, in non-socialist countries where there are more than 2 government controlled TV stations <bg> there are a lot of stations that fill most of their day with content previously run on the big networks. To buy the rights to a show for running re-runs ( Friends each night at 6 pm for example ) they by the program in syndication at which point they pay a fee every time they run the show, but are assured others in their market can't buy those rights as long as their contract is in effect.
Right now I get roughly 300 channels ( and there is nothing on ... <s> ) if you don't count all-musics channels ( get about 100 of those ) or foreign language or weird sports channels to which I don't subscribe.
Charles Hankey
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