Reruns/syndication
All episodes of AFHV are currently in syndication though for unknown reasons, the 1989–1994 Saget episodes, the 1994–97 Saget episodes, the 1998–99 Fugelsang/Fuentes episodes and the current Tom Bergeron episodes of AFV have virtually never been aired together in off-network broadcast or cable syndication; instead each era of the series has aired separately, with a minor exception for the 1994–97 Saget episodes and the Fugelsang-Fuentes episodes, which have never been aired in broadcast syndication. Until 2001, the Saget version was syndicated by 20th Television, who assumed syndication rights from their purchase of MTM Enterprises, which had syndicated the show from 1995–1998. Currently, Disney-ABC Domestic Television (formerly Buena Vista Television), the corporate cousin of one of the show's production companies ABC Productions, distributes all versions of the series.
The 1989–1994 Bob Saget episodes have aired in off-network syndication starting in September 1995, and also on TBS from October 2, 1995 to September 1998, USA Network from 1998 to 2001, and the Hallmark Channel from August 5, 2001 to 2003 and January 4 to February 25, 2010, PAX TV (now Ion Television) on Monday–Thursday nights (Fridays were later added) from 2003 to 2005, and Nick at Nite from April to October 2007.
The 1998–99 Fugelsang-Fuentes episodes aired on ABC Family from the fall of 1999 (known as Fox Family and owned by News Corporation at the time), until the fall of 2003; the 1994–97 Saget episodes also aired on the network from the fall of 2003 to September 2007, usually on Monday–Saturday nights, and occasionally Sundays if a movie ended before 11 p.m. ET. The Tom Bergeron episodes began airing on ABC Family on October 1, 2007, and usually airs 3–6 nights a week with episodes regularly airing at 6 p.m. ET (depending upon the night's schedule), and a four-hour block on Fridays from 6–11 p.m. ET (as of September 2010, these episodes are misidentified by DirecTV as episodes from the Saget era). The Tom Bergeron and Daisy Fuentes/John Fugelsang episodes have aired on WGN America since 2004, although the channel mostly shows the Tom Bergeron run, which airs weeknights at 7 p.m. ET, along with Saturday primetime and Sunday afternoon blocks; the Fugelsang-Fuentes episodes air on occasions (more frequently from 2004 to 2010, due to primetime movie overruns) when a sporting event airing on WGN-TV Chicago not cleared to air on WGN America forces the preemption of its simulcast of WGN-TV's 9 p.m. newscast outside of Chicago. Atlanta independent station WPCH-TV (channel 17, known as "PeachtreeTV"; formerly the local Atlanta feed of TBS) aired the entire Saget run, the first (and so far, the only) channel ever to do so since the original ABC run, from 2007 to 2009. The Tom Bergeron episodes of AFV, with some minor editing for suggestive content (generally blurring backside nudity of babies and toddlers, which is usually permissible on television), began airing in off-network syndication on September 14, 2009; WGN America also aired the off-network syndicated episodes in late night until September 2011, while alternate versions of the Bergeron (and sometimes the Fugelsang-Fuentes) episodes with the Buena Vista Television tag before the end credits aired in the evening.
Outside the United States, family-oriented Canadian cable channel YTV has aired AFV on Saturday nights since September 2009. Canadian broadcaster Citytv also began airing a simulcast of AFV episodes from the current or previous season on Sundays at 7 p.m. ET, as it airs on ABC in the United States (but factoring simultaneous substitution), starting in the Spring of 2010. ABC Spark, a channel that borrows original programming and some syndicated programs from ABC Family in the U.S., began carrying the series upon the channel's March 2012 launch.
In Pax airings of the Saget run, when back-to-back episodes aired, the opening titles of the second episode was cut and replaced with an announcer saying "Now don't go away, here's more of America's Funniest Home Videos" before cutting to Ernie Anderson introducing Bob Saget. Some airings of the Saget run on Pax TV, Hallmark, and Nick at Nite cut the interviews with the winners, due to time constraints because of the longer ad breaks that were not seen on U.S. broadcast television at the period the episodes originally aired on ABC. Also because of time constraints, some of the Hallmark episodes have the opening titles (as well as various portions of the show) sped up.
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