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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] How about a comprehensive answer? There are (for presumably obvious reasons) no UPN stations in Canada, just as there are no ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX or WB stations. Canadian rights to all new shows get essentially dumped on the two Canadian networks at pretty ridiculously low prices. [This has a major effect on the whole battle to keep Canadian content on TV, but I digress.] So, the two major Canadian networks (CTV and Global) fill out their schedules relatively quickly with stuff from the four major American networks. That leaves the shows on the American netlets (UPN and WB) to be picked up by the CHUM/CITY media conglomerate, a smaller player with only a handful of affiliates that collectively reach only two markets: Southern Ontario and Southwestern BC. They airing it at the moment at the usual UPN time on its two CityTV stations in Toronto and Vancouver, and then on their nation-wide specialty cable station "Space!" on the weekends. Now, just as in the states, if there isn't a nearby UPN affiliate in a particular area, any TV station can make a pitch to grab the show and show it in first-run syndication, which usually means slotting it in at some time on the weekend after its already aired on UPN. A-Channel, which is in fact three locally-oriented stations owned by Craig Broadcasting (a rising specialty cable player) reaches the cities of Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, and it has first-run syndication rights to Enterprise. For whatever reason, they've managed to slot time for Enterprise in Calgary and Edmonton shortly after the satellite wildfeed so that it can be seen on the Tuesday evenings before it airs everywhere else. Winnipeg is still the normal Wednesday time, I think. And on the East Coast some other station has syndication rights to Enterprise but it doesn't air it at a particularly exotic time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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