I’ve always heard about the concept of syndication and having to hit x number of episodes to “hit syndication” but I’ve never understood what it means. For example [on this day in 1994](https://twitter.com/dailysimpsons/status/1571892641889153025?t=y-ieaFcMZWeLz0vaMMbZvg&s=19) The Simpsons entered syndication:
>Local Fox stations aired repeats 5 days a week, up to 3 times a day
But this doesn’t really shed light on what syndication *is* because I don’t get why, The Simpsons being a Fox show, needed some special status to be broadcast at certain times. It also of course doesn’t explain when shows go into syndication on other networks ie Adult Swim airing Family Guy or Futurama back in the day.
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It’s selling the rights to air re-runs of shows. It’s how all those channels get the episodes of Simpsons, Friends, Brady Bunch, any old show that’s run daily or multiple times a day.
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