There’s no place like broadcast tv! Beginning in 1959, The Wizard of Oz was a broadcast TV staple, airing as a tv particular annually (aside from 1963, for no matter cause) on CBS. In 1998, nevertheless, CBS aired the movie for the final time—Ted Turner, who owned the IP, moved the movie solely over to his Time-Warner cable stations. Since then, it’s aired on TNT and TBS a number of occasions (it additionally, controversially, performed on the Sphere in Las Vegas), however not on a free broadcast community… till now.

In response to The Hollywood Reporter, MeTV has bought the unique broadcast rights for The Wizard of Oz. The community, which focuses on traditional TV, will air the movie a number of occasions in October 2026 as a part of its Halloween BOO-Nanza marketing campaign, twenty-eight or so years after its final broadcast in 1998.

“The Wizard of Oz is greater than a film, it’s a shared American expertise that was outlined by the annual custom of gathering across the tv set,” Neal Sabin, vice chairman of Weigel Broadcasting, which owns MeTV, stated in a press release to THR. “We’re thrilled to deliver the movie again to broadcast tv this October on MeTV. It is going to be offered with none edits and shall be surrounded by surprises we’ll announce later….”

MeTV is on the market on broadcast tv over the air for many of the U.S. if you wish to get out your TV rabbit ears. It’s additionally out there by way of Frndly TV, Philo, Fubo, DirecTV Stream and Sling TV.