re: Before HBO and VCRs?

By the way, the way that syndicated movies worked, one station would air the film (actual film) and then put the film reels on a bus for the next town. So we could see movies play in Baton Rouge one weekend, then see the same movie on a Lafayette station the next weekend. It got to the point where we could predict which movies would get played on both stations. It was the first example of repeat TV viewing that I experienced.

For a while, KATC in Lafayette would show a film after their 10pm news, then show it again in the morning before shipping it to the next station. So if there was a great movie you saw at night, you could get up the next morning and watch it again.