The Donna Reed Show: Freeing The Housewife One Episode At A Time

Staff|Entertainment|1 Nov 2016

The Loss of Airing Rights

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Source: Daily Motion

For decades the TV series continues to air on TV. However, in 2008, Sony, the last company to own airing rights, lost them to the estates of Donna Reed and Tony Owen. While the show ran from 1985 to 1999 on Nick at Nite and from 2002 to 2004 on TV Land, it is rarely seen on TV now because of the cost to air the TV series in syndication.