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Three possible reasons:

1) The owners to the rights to those films don't want to sell them to TV stations for broadcast, perhaps because they figure there's more money in DVD sales.

2) The physical quality of the films has deteriorated so badly over the decades that they wouldn't look good on TV. Sadly, a lot of films made prior to 1950 simply do not exist in any usable form.

3) The heads of TV stations have concluded that they can sell more advertising -- ie, make more money -- by broadcasting other types of shows. That one person might like to see Autry on TV is irrelevent; a TV station must have 100s of thousands -- if not millions -- of viewers to turn a profit. In the free enterprise system that Autry loved, this is an obvious fact.

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