TVLand's Monoply

It's really sad how greedy stations get when it comes to fleecing the viewers of the programs they show. Take for example TVLand who just aired an episode of Leave It To Beaver called "Wally Buys A Car." By the time they got done with it it had been trimmed no less than seven minutes to make time for commercial breaks. If they do that to every episode over the period of an entire season that's 1638 minutes or 27.3 hours!. Imagine the money made on commercials run during this time while the viewing public misses key scenes. And now missing is the entire ending of each episode as they air their inane babble and then voiceover the final scene and credits.
This is just one series. Now imagine the amount of time when you add up all the series that they have a monopoly on. The commercial airtime is staggering . And if that isn't enough, the original actors, who starred in many of the shows that we hold dear, see absolutely zero in residuals.
I think it's time that TVLand give up Leave It To Beaver, and all the other shows that they are monopolizing, and give the smaller, independent stations a chance to air these shows, and maybe, just maybe the local stations won't butcher these programs by paring them down to practically nothing.

BTW: if you don't think TVLand is shaving major time off the shows just wait a couple weeks until they begin rerunning the Leave It To Beaver series and get out your DVD of the first season. Compare the episodes. You will see that there are MAJOR chunks missing. This is happening with all the series they show.

Marcus Tee