When they made the "exclusive contract" they were buying the reruns to
the first FOUR seasons, with the syndication rights to year 5
negotiated later. If perhaps by some fluke in the legal department
the contract for year 5 didn't have an "exclusive" stipulation, you,
or rather WB, could syndicate the season 5 reruns to local independent
stations, like ER. Difference being they'd have to run it once or
twice a week or strip it daily and have it get old after 1 month.
Of course this is all speculation. But wouldn't it be ironic if the
only B5 they couldn't keep down where the ones they originally funded?
Joe Biles
jms
(jms...@aol.com)
B5 Official Fan Club at:
http://www.thestation.com
True, but it's not likely that removing B5 reruns from TNT would kill TNT;
they've got quite a lot of other programming, after all...