It’s 2026 and YouTube routinely tops Nielsen charts of highest performing distributors on television. Video podcasters are storming streaming platforms. Successful TV creators are beginning to dabble in microdramas. And yet, as the old world of network television continues to fall away, CBS is doubling down on a very linear phenomenon: syndicated television.
Just last month, the company’s broadcast syndication subsidiary, CBS Media Ventures, announced a slate of shows old and new that felt like a throwback. We’re talking game shows (The Perfect Line, Flip Side), courtroom shows (Hot Bench and the upcoming Adam’s Law, featuring the son of Judge Judy Sheindlin herself), a clip show (American Mayhem, from the producers of America’s Funniest Home Videos), an entertainment news show (Entertainment Tonight) and one of the last buzzy syndicated daytime talk shows left (The Drew Barrymore Show).
CBS isn’t the only company still hanging on to the syndication
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