Simpsons Syndicater/Distriutor

Does anyone know the name and website of the company that syndiates the Simpsons?

"Travis Zdanski" wrote in message news:[email]...

No. Fix your computer's date (and time if necessary). You're not living in the future, are you?

meh.

but then again if he were, why would he ask about tonight's episode when he had already seen it? That would just make TOO MUCH SENSE wouldn't it.

S.

"Rebecca" wrote in message news:a1b1eo$soq$[email]...

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Drunk and full of pie, Travis Zdanski wrote:

"Twentieth Television". It's no more complicated than that, my friend.

No, that's the general distributor, not the syndicator. The general distributor is always associated with the network that developed it, like Rug Rats and Nickeloden Animation, or Caroline In The City and Eyemark, but they all have non-network distributors, like most non-Disney or WB animation is syndicated with DIC, who never produced a show in it's life... I'm looking for neither Twentieth Television, Gracie Films, FOX, or, for earlier episodes, Klasky Csupo.

Drunk and full of pie, Travis Zdanski wrote:

Quoting Brian Peterson, former webmaster of snpp.com, who wrote part of the syndication FAQ soon to appear on SNPP:

"Back-end syndication of The Simpsons began in 1994 and is offered to United States and select Canadian broadcasters by Twentieth Television (not to be confused with 20th Century Fox Television)."

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"Under a barter contract, all episodes are fed to stations at no charge via satellite. In exchange for the free programming, some of the available commercial time is pre-loaded by the distributor (Twentieth Television) with "built-in" commercials. All stations must follow the distributor's episode scheduling, which ensures that the built-in commercials air throughout the nation on the same dates. The amount of commercial time a distributor keeps for itself under a barter contract varies from one show to the next. During the old barter runs of The Simpsons, all built-in advertising was located in the 1 minute space between the end of the second act and the "The Simpsons will be right back" bumper.

With cash contracts, stations simply buy the broadcast rights to a series, and sell all of the available commercial time to their own sponsors. This allows stations to schedule episodes as they wish. Stations under cash contracts get episodes by either building a master tape library from the satellite feeds offered to barter contracted stations, or they can order a complete set of tapes at a charge from the distributor."

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"Back-end syndicated episodes are cut by Twentieth Television before they are distributed to the stations. Episodes in international syndication, however, are offered uncut so that the recepients may choose their own editing techniques."

There is no mention of the exact process of how the episodes reach the buyer--but, interpret the information how you will.

Chad's response, with all the quotes, is correct.  The four Newscorp units
involved with The Simpsons are:
  - 20th Century Fox Television
    http://www.newscorp.com/management/20centfoxtv.html
    Produces the series with Gracie Films.
  - Fox Broadcasting Company
    http://www.fox.com/
    Buys rights from 20th Century Fox Television to broadcast episodes in
    the United States first.
  - 20th Television
    http://www.newscorp.com/management/20tv.html
    Buys rights to re-sell episodes to individual stations in the USA (and
    to some Canadian stations) after the network's rights expire.
  - 20th Century Fox International Television
    http://www.foxintltv.com/
    Buys rights from 20th Century Fox Television to re-sell both new and
    old episodes to broadcasters in Canada and other countries.

As far as New World Entertainment, Twentieth Television had always been the domestic syndication distributor until Newscorp bought out New World and gave some of 20th TV's syndication work to it. Shortly thereafter, Murdoch fully integrated New World into 20th TV and dropped the NWE name. So syndication is once again done by "20th Television."

20th Century Fox Television supplies dubs of the masters to 20th Television and 20th Century Fox International Television, and they each have their own means of distribution.

20th Television sends its copies to third-party companies for all of the cutting and time-compression work. (I believe that a company in Hollywood called Complete Post did the 11th season episodes, at least.) Then it pays the Fox network's satellite facilities to transmit the edited versions to US and Canadian syndication stations when Fox isn't busy feeding its own programming out to network affiliates. Stations that miss the feeds either ask for re-feeds, or order copies from 20th Television by mail. (Given how terrible the domestic-syndicated episodes always look and sound, though, I think 20th Television might do some of the cutting/time compression on its own as well. Companies like Complete Post do very excellent work, yet the 11th season episodes' syndicated versions looked like they were processed with VHS VCRs -- just like all the other syndicated seasons' episodes...)

20th Century Fox International Television sends its copies (unedited) to international broadcasters by mail. The only exception is Canada, where the Global network has a special arrangement to broadcast new episodes in Canada simultaneously with Fox. So 20thCFITV pays Fox's satellite center to uplink Canada's copy to Global ahead of time -- usually about 36 hours before each episode airs on Fox/Global simultaneously.

That's about all there is to it. I'm sure everyone was dying to know...

Drunk and full of pie (probably not ;), Brian Petersen wrote:

Thanks, Brian. I feel vindicated. Of course, I was relying on your FAQ page (still not uploaded... but because I've yet to "tweak" it...)

There you have it, Travis. Now, Brian needs to say (a la the Kwik-E-Mart head master)

"I hope this has been enlightening for you."

To quote from snpp.com: "New World Entertainment, the United States syndication distributor of The Simpsons, has terminated the remaining barter run of the show."

What's that mean?

Austin

That new world entertainment is the syndicator of the Simpsons.

Kevin

LOL...I meant the "terminated the remaining barter run" part. But I read another post that explained it...

Austin

Good, because I kind of knew what it meant but not enough to explain it...so I just made a stupid joke instead.

Oh...I get it. I get jokes.