TV Guide listings would be an obvious start, but what time period is this attempting to cover? If it's current, you'll see an obvious pattern with most major networks. As in the days when studios once ran major theatrical theatres, now many of the major studios have ownership of major networks. Sometimes part ownership. Sometimes total. As such, these channels tend to provide a heavier (if not total) rotation of films from their major owner, especially in their series programming. For example UPN (United Paramount Network) is obviously owned by Paramount. ABC is tied with Disney. TBS is with Time Warner and so forth. Even in Canada this rule applies with channels such as Showcase (owned by Alliance Atlantis) broadcasting a large percentage of Alliance films. In the early years it was usually films other broadcasters were not interested in buying because Showcase often didn't have the budget to buy bigger titles. In a sense it became a dumping ground for its orphan films. But that is slowly changing. Bigger titles are being bought and Showcase is now publicly branding itself as "An Alliance Atlantis Network" (a few years ago there was even an attempt to change the Showcase name to "Alliance Atlantis Television"). A study of television broadcasting today is really a study of growing corporate control of on-air programming. But these stations, and their related corporations, are not keen to share what they have in their inventory. But I guarantee, if you track the ownership of any channel, and then take a one year sampling (even one week is some cases) from any TV guide, you will see a pattern. (NOTE: The studios that release a movie in theatres or video are not always the distributors for television, which makes this research more difficult because tv rights ownership is even more difficult to track by the general public) In any case, in this environment, films are not movies. They're product. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu