the.com/syndication
How a show dies once on a network and lives forever on everything else.
means The practice of selling the same TV show, article, or column to many different outlets at once, rather than it living on just one.
from Comes from "syndicate," from Latin syndicus, "representative of a group," built from Greek syn- ("together") plus dikē ("justice, judgment"). A syndicate was originally a body of delegates acting for others; by the 1800s newspapers used the word for groups that bought and distributed the same content to many papers at once, and the media sense of "syndication" grew straight out of that practice.
- magic number
- 100 episodes used to be the threshold
- money machine
- seinfeld earns more in reruns than it did live
- origin
- started with newspapers sharing columns across cities
- streaming twist
- netflix basically pays rent to rerun old sitcoms