My understanding with CBS is that CBS and Fox picked their policies because
of their big Sunday night shows. CBS wanted to always air 60 Minutes in its
entirety, Fox wanted to be consistent about broadcasting the first-run
episode of The Simpsons at 8:00.


On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
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