Claim: Baton Broadcast System, owned by a Canadian media conglomerate, did not broadcast a complete primetime schedule during its years as a cooperative but later on broadcasted 80 hours of common programming each week during the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
Evidence: During the late 1980s and early 1990s, it broadcast 60 hours of common programming each week, with a few gaps in primetime for affiliates to schedule locally; in some cases stations could even pick when to air network programs.