On (07 Jul 97) Victoria Mackey wrote to Stephen Adams...
 SA> I noticed that you didn't include any from V...
 VM> None worth including.
 SA> As an aside, how come we don't get to see much of the original series on
 SA> broadcast television any more?  Is that simply a matter of choice among 
my
 SA> local stations, or are the rights to the series tied up by someone else?
 VM> I think it's more of a choice of the stations involved.  Our local
 VM> station was showing them again for awhile, but I think they just don't
 VM> pull in the ratings anymore.
   My local station runs TOS somewhat irregularly around here as well.
They tend to run it on Sunday afternoons at 12:00 and 5:00 (different
eps), as somewhat of a "time filler" around sporting events, which they
also tend to do with Night Court (which I've said for years was
separated from Trek at birth ;).  This past weekend, however, TOS ran at
noon, but at 5 they ran DS9"In the Cards," followed by "The Begotten" at
6 (DS9's regular time slot), then the previous week's re-run at 10.  The
scheduling's been a bit strange lately, as I seem to recall they ran the
one about the Bajoran poet claiming to be the Emissary (the title of
which elludes me at the moment) in place of the re-run of "A Call to
Arms."
   However, on a slight tangent, another reason TOS might not be getting
the air time it used to is the recent flood of first-run syndicated
series (which, ironically, was quite possibly spurred by TNG's success
in syndication) that tend to hog up all available air time.  Oh well...
... It's just the IDEA of an inflatable rubber starship that bothers me.
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