I have seen this wording before.what is a syndicated print please?

Tom my my understanding is that it is 16mm prints made from a 35mm original print to be run say for tv.
Something like the “Mash”tv series that you see turn up quite often.A lot of these prints are syndicated as they are shown on different tv stations.The original owners of the film give rights to others to show the copy of the original hence the term syndicate to others.
Theses syndicated prints could have been passed from one company to another over time.
Anyway that’s as I see it ,I stand to be corrected and I’m sure someone else may explain it better or put me right.
Gwyn

Thanks Gwyn. I wondered what it meant.ive seen that term used a few times.

gwyn,
correct, shuffling a print to other stations

If I may post a follow up question to Tom's question:

Would a syndicated print have the "Place the commercials here" bits?

Would a network print have the commercials already selected and in place?

In other words, is a "network" print different than a "syndicated print"?

Greg,
Good question and i guess in my opinion they are one of the same.
As to where the commercials are placed is down to the TV station because if memory serves me well in the UK when we had a US hour long episode of a serial then there were three commercial breaks,where as in the states there were more.
But again I am not sure if the adverts in the USA were already in those prints but again I would suggest as different countries had different ads each one did there own thing with
their copies of the film.
My thoughts anyway.
Anyone else please with there ideas.

My experience is that a syndicated print is one that has been multiliscenced by different releaseing or publishing companies. I have multiple prints of M.A.S.H., Lavern and Shirley, Happy Days and others that are considered 'syndicated' since they are still broadcast by different broadcast networks. None of my films have the original commercials since I got most of them from the networks spliced back together without the commercials. In my opinion "syndicated' means the films are still being shown on broadcast television. They aren't too worried about copies.

Also, Syndicated prints were often cut shorter to allow for more commercials. The Danny Thomas Show was renamed "Make Room For Daddy" in syndication (I collect them). When I was a kid, UHF TV stations would show syndicated shows all day of Dennis the Menace, The Munsters, Etc. Most of the surviving 16mm copies are the syndicated prints on older shows. I know that the syndicators would rent or sell groups of shows to TV stations to show. So they might acquire 80-100 episodes of a particular show at a time.

Al,
So a syndicated print would be shorter to accomodate more commercials as part of a "re-run" package offered to other TV networks? And a "network print" would likely be the show that was originally aired on the network that produced the show in the first place?