> On Jul 7, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Pete Ahles <[email protected]> wrote: > > I heard that it has to do with the affiliate ownership. The Fox stations are > independent so they want the local news at 10pm no matter what. Fox will > always preempt shows, although having "The OT" as a buffer makes it less > likely. > > More CBS affiliates are "owned and operated" so CBS can push back the news.
That isn’t a factor in the differences in the way CBS and Fox handle Sunday night football overruns. There are 16 CBS affiliates that are owned-and-operated, and 17 Fox affiliates that are O&Os. Since there’s a cap on the amount of TV stations any one entity can own (basically, they can only reach 39% of the country), one would expect the networks to own about the same number of stations. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
