User blog:RRabbit42/Simpsons TV channel

The L.A. Times reports that there's a possiblity of creating a TV channel exclusively for The Simpsons. This couldn't take place until after the show ends because of existing rerun deals and new contracts can't be written until the show ends.

FOX is already advertising that the 500th episode will air in February 2012, so there's a lot of episodes to use for it, but I wonder how practical an all-Simpsons TV channel could be. There's 48 half-hours in a day. That means you would go through the first 22 seasons in ten days. The movie's 87 minutes, so when you add in commercials, it takes up two hours (or they could run it in a 1 hour 45 minute section and fill out the last 15 minutes with promos or something else).

With season 23 coming up, that's still only about 11 days of continuous programming. I guess you could shuffle the episodes around so you're not just doing a straight repeat all the time, but it still doesn't seem like enough content to warrant a channel devoted to the show.