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During the 1950s and 1960s , these stations would fill their broadcast hours with programming such as movies, sports, cartoons, Newsreels , filmed Travelogues , and some locally-produced programs, including newscasts. Independents on the air during this period would begin their broadcasting day (sign-on) at times later than network-affiliated stations, some in the middle of the morning. A newer source of programming became available to independent stations by the middle and hour-long dramas, in the early evening (while network stations aired local and national news), and movies during primetime and late-night hours. In some areas, independents would carry network programs that were not aired on a local affiliate. In larger markets (such as New York City , Chicago , Los Angeles and others), independent stations benefited from a Federal Communications Commission ruling barring network-affiliated stations within the top fifty television markets from airing off-network programs in the two hours preceding primetime. Known as the "Prime Time Access Rule", this guideline was in effect from 1975 until 1995 , and as a result, syndicated reruns became more readily available to independents. In the and Mountain time zones. Network stations aired their late newscasts an hour later. The independent station roster in the United States once numbered close to three-hundred in the mid-1980s. Many of these stations belonged to the Association of Independent Television Stations (INTV), a group similar to the National Association Of Broadcasters , and which lobbied the FCC on behalf of the cause of the independent. In the United States, several independent stations were commonly-owned. Companies that operated three or more independents included:
In (program-length commercials) and Christian religious programs. Several stations which are currently affiliated with WB and UPN will become independent again when those services merge to form the CW Television Network , which is scheduled to launch in September 2006, although some of the newly-independent stations may find a network home with another new venture launched by Fox called My Network TV . While independent stations were not as common in Canada , there were several notable examples of such (see listing below). A LIST OF NOTABLE U.S. INDEPENDENT STATIONS, PAST AND PRESENT (a partial listing, arranged on current Nielsen DMA data)
A LIST OF NOTABLE CANADIAN INDEPENDENT STATIONS, PAST AND PRESENT
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