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.
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. 
