off-network syndication 的解釋?

不在網絡上的企業聯合組織化

這裡的意思是某公司製作了這個電視劇，任何想播放的電視台都可以購買版權來放映，並且不管你是屬於哪個電視網絡或關係企業，都可以獨自購買播放。

按理說，企業聯合組織化是一個很好的方式，在獨立電視媒體系統下，既能夠保護版權，又能最大限度讓好的節目被更多的人所欣賞。但是很多人可能記得，正是這個企業聯合組織化，七、八十年代是被中共所痛加撻伐的一種「資本主義的商業形式」，是一種「萬惡的、壟斷的、沒落的」社會系統。

Syndication refers to the sale or distribution of television programs that are offered to multiple markets for non-network exhibition. As a practice, syndication stands opposed to network broadcasting where content and schedule are determined nationally for all affiliated stations. Syndication includes a variety of program types including movies, first-run series, re-runs of network programming, talk shows, game shows, foreign programs, and children's series. While syndication may resemble network distribution in that the same programs air over many separate outlets, the timing (day of the week as well as time of day) may vary from location to location. Serving as a counterbalance to network control, syndication has developed from the simple sale of off-network programming in the early 1950s, into a number of complex and varied business practices including off-net, first run, re-run, and barter syndication.

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One way of classifying television programs in the syndication marketplace is by the first national run of the program. If the first run of a program was as part of a national network schedule, then as the program is marketed for subsequent runs to other programmers, it is referred to as "off-network syndication." Thus a cable programmer who buys the rights to presentation of a situation comedy presented by NBC is buying off-network syndication.