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   From: candid@dontbother.invalid   
      
   aemeijers wrote:   
   > Frank Frank wrote:   
   >> Jack Bohn wrote:   
   >>> Frank Frank wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> SFTV_troy wrote:   
   >>>>> Has Paramount put this show back in the vault?  It appears they have,   
   >>>>> and released TNG as a replacement.   
   >>>> Can they do that? Stop someone airing Star Trek AFTER having sold   
   >>>> the syndication rights to them?   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, it's not so much "sold" as "rented."  The rights to air are   
   >>> probably licensed for some time frame, and then the syndicator   
   >>> offers a new license (or not) and the stations pick it up again   
   >>> (or not).   
   >>   
   >> Why would they not, though? If you have a product to sell and there is   
   >> demand. It would be as if Wal-Mart decided to close its shops from   
   >> October until next March or something like that -- what possible kind   
   >> of business sense could that make?   
   >   
   > Ask Disney. They do the same thing with most of their 'classic' animated   
   > films. Last thing they want is for people to get bored with the product.   
   > (or in the case of videos, to be competing with their own product   
   > selling for a buck at garage sales.) About a seven-year cycle, which is   
   > the right interval for a fresh generation of their target demographic of   
   > kids, as well as for young parents to get past their snotty late-teenage   
   > and college years, and be nostalgic about the films they saw 7 or 14   
   > years ago. TV cycle isn't that long, of course. There isn't enough   
   > product out there for that.   
   >   
   > Even the digital remastering and sweetened SFX for TOS were right out of   
   > the Disney playbook. Last go-around for most of the 'name' Disney   
   > Classics, they trumpeted how they were 'restored' from original masters.   
   >   
   > Old rule of show biz- always leave them wanting more.   
      
   But it's artificial scarcity. It's evil. If someone wants it now they   
   should be able to have it now if they have the money to cover the costs   
   (parts + labour) for providing one more marginal unit.   
      
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