Editing The Jerry Springer Show (section)

==Broadcast history and release==
''Jerry Springer'' was [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2003/05/25/chicago-is-taking-a-beating-in-swinging-london-of-all-places/ |title=Chicago is taking a beating in swinging London of all places |last=Phillips |first=Michael |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=May 25, 2003 }}</ref> In the United States, it was distributed by [[Multimedia Entertainment]] and placed in first-run syndication on September 30, 1991.<ref name=airdate/> The show was later distributed by Universal and then [[Studios USA]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Fabrikant|first=Geraldine|title=Unit of MCA is Acquiring Talk Shows|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106014308/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/26/business/unit-of-mca-is-acquiring-talk-shows.html|archive-date=November 6, 2012|work=The New York Times|date=November 26, 1996|access-date=April 18, 2008}}</ref>

Episodes were available for individual purchase from Video Archives.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/03/13/hooked-on-gabfests-tune-in-this-info/|title=Hooked on Gabfests? Tune in This Info|last=Oleinick Dube|first=Lori|date=March 13, 1994|website=[[Chicago Tribune]]|language=en-US|access-date=October 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324211406/https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/03/13/hooked-on-gabfests-tune-in-this-info/|archive-date=March 24, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 13, 2018, the industry publication ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]'' reported that the series had ceased production and that the 2018–19 season forward would solely consist of reruns. The final first-run episode aired on July 26, 2018. Springer had originally intended to retire after the show ended production; instead, NBCUniversal, interested in keeping his services, convinced him into working on a new courtroom show, to be called ''[[Judge Jerry]]''.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lyle D. Solomon |title=Celebs at Law: 14 Celebrities Who Have Law Degrees |url=https://www.thewrap.com/celebrities-who-have-law-degrees-kim-kardashian/ |work=TheWrap |date=October 18, 2022}}</ref><ref name=springerinterview>{{cite web|last=Starr|first=Michael|title='Judge Jerry' Springer moves from talk show 'circus' to courtroom|url=https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/judge-jerry-springer-moves-from-talk-show-circus-to-courtroom/|work=[[New York Post]]|date=September 6, 2019|access-date=September 17, 2019}}</ref>

[[The CW]] acquired [[rerun]] rights to the show to fill an hour in their [[CW Daytime|daytime timeslot]] that previously aired ''[[The Robert Irvine Show]]''. The CW, which began airing the show on September 10, 2018, has first right to the episodes that have been produced but remain unaired, which number in the "dozens". The CW also had the right to ask that production of the series be revived in the future. Reruns continued to air on The CW until it left the network on September 10, 2021 as a reorganizing of its programming lineup (replacing its daytime block with a Saturday night lineup, which neither the CW nor its predecessors have programmed since they launched in 1995).<ref>[https://tvnewscheck.com/top-news/programming/article/cw-expands-primetime-schedule-to-saturday/ "CW Expands Primetime Schedule To Saturday,"] from ''TVNewsCheck'', May 13, 2021</ref> Reruns continued to air thereafter in broadcast syndication and on [[The CW Plus]] until September 6, 2024, when both ceased carrying the show in all markets, just nearly seventeen months after Springer’s April 2023 death from pancreatic cancer.