There has been a trend in the past few years toward networks owning a piece of some shows, but most still only buy first-run rights. For instance from your list, Scrubs wasn't put on the fall schedule because NBC/U didn't own any of the show and they replaced it with The Office which is mostly an in-house production. Johnny Carson owned all of his shows and the network was brought-in on the transition to Leno.
Other examples of how incestuous this relationship can end-up being can be found from looking at one of the websites for Touchstone Television. Touchstone is part of ABC Television and both are divisions of Disney. In addition to several shows that air on ABC, they also own parts of Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer which both air on CBS and the aforementioned Scrubs, which is under contract to NBC. And, while most of the NBC/U shows broadcast on one of their parent company's channels, they also produce House for Fox and something called Complete Savages for ABC.
All told and excluding late night or news programming; NBC/U owns seven shows that are on the current NBC schedule. Touchstone owns nine that are on ABC, though I'm not seeing a listing for their reality programming. Viacom/Paramount appears to produce only four for airing on the current CBS schedule, plus a handful for their UPN network, along with Charmed for the WB and Medium for NBC. I haven't done an actual count, but my instincts say that Warner Brothers owns the most shows with them producing four each for ABC, NBC and CBS, along with three for Fox and several shows for both of the lesser networks.
Just googling in a circle, but here's some background on television programming ownership and judging from my lists above, the idea of each network partially owning a majority of their schedule still holds true, but the financial risks of production still spreads the productions around.
Other examples of how incestuous this relationship can end-up being can be found from looking at one of the websites for Touchstone Television. Touchstone is part of ABC Television and both are divisions of Disney. In addition to several shows that air on ABC, they also own parts of Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer which both air on CBS and the aforementioned Scrubs, which is under contract to NBC. And, while most of the NBC/U shows broadcast on one of their parent company's channels, they also produce House for Fox and something called Complete Savages for ABC.
All told and excluding late night or news programming; NBC/U owns seven shows that are on the current NBC schedule. Touchstone owns nine that are on ABC, though I'm not seeing a listing for their reality programming. Viacom/Paramount appears to produce only four for airing on the current CBS schedule, plus a handful for their UPN network, along with Charmed for the WB and Medium for NBC. I haven't done an actual count, but my instincts say that Warner Brothers owns the most shows with them producing four each for ABC, NBC and CBS, along with three for Fox and several shows for both of the lesser networks.
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