- published: 25 May 2014
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Syndication exclusivity (also known as syndex) is a federal law implemented by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States that is designed to protect a local television station's rights to syndicated television programs by granting exclusive broadcast rights to the station for that program in their local market, usually defined by a station's Nielsen Designated Market Area.
As a result, any airings of the same program on cable networks and, more commonly, superstations must be blocked by the local cable provider upon request from the local station. Broadcast television stations have the option of signing programming deals with or without syndex protection, but stand to have audiences significantly diluted in markets without protection. Syndex protection is rarely enforced in regards to conventional cable networks, which (particularly since the late 1990s) often concurrently maintain rights to a particular program during the period of a broadcast syndication deal.
Meet Coraline
Seems an average girl to the wise
Soft hair, innocent eyes
Perfect lips for perfect lies
She tells them she's fine
How nice it must be
To think that they're blind or that they just don't see
Well, her ignorance flies only so far
And they're just out of reach
So look in her eyes and tell me she's fine
Her dreams come alive
Her perverted attempt at reality, a grotesque demonstration of sanity
Ignored, oh, she cries
As she lies there, so sublime
She tells them she's fine
How nice it must be
To think that they're blind or that they just don't see
Well, her ignorance flies only so far
And they're just out of reach
So look in her eyes and tell me she's fine
You're so sweet, Coraline
Breath, won't you, breath, just you, breath
Oh, you're so sweet, Coraline
All your dreams come alive
Dream
Take a breath so you won't die
Watch her dreams come alive
Oh, sweet Coraline, take a breath so you won't die
She tells them she's fine
How nice it must be
To think that they're blind or that they just don't see
Well, her ignorance flies only so far
And they're just out of reach
So look in her eyes and tell me she's fine
So look in her eyes and tell me she's fine
So look in her eyes and tell me she's fine
Oh, Coraline