Syndication...

A note on syndication (for non-USA readers): The term means the shows are offered to individual local stations, rather than through a broadcast network.

Generally, syndicated shows were weekly offerings (with some more popular shows airing twice weekly) until the very late ‘70s, with “Family Feud” being one of the first to go to 5 days/week. Since the ‘80s, the majority of syndicated shows aired 5 days/week.

A syndicator is a firm which acquires the rights to programs for purposes of marketing them to additional customers. The syndication
marketplace in fact provides the bulk of programming seen by the public.

Increasingly, syndication is part of the worldwide television marketplace and here the producers are not always part of the U.S. industry. Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Mexican telenovelas (soap operas) are programmed throughout the Spanish-speaking world and even in less predictable contexts such as India and Russia.

British programming is seen in the United States and throughout Europe and the rest of the world. In these cases and many others, syndication is seen as an economic benefit.

Because of Syndication our Game Show will be in every Market and in your home town. As of now we have a contract for “Link Five, the War of Passions Television Game Show” (“Link Five, la Guerra de Pasiones”) to air twice a day in prime time in the following locations and cable systems...