you mean they reran it during said hiatus

Yes.

Doctor Who has been on Iowa Public Television's weekly schedule continuously (excepting the occasional interruption for special events) since 1974.

The hiatus years were actually IPT's heyday, when they were airing it along side Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker's Guide, Neverwhere, and Blake's 7 as a friday night block.

They were the station that prevented Sci-Fi channel from getting exclusive rights to Doctor Who back in the 00's. They'd been paying for Doctor Who for so long that BBC didn't want to cut them out, and Sci-Fi wanted a monopoly on US distribution.

you mean they reran it during said hiatus

Yes.

Doctor Who has been on Iowa Public Television's weekly schedule continuously (excepting the occasional interruption for special events) since 1974.

The hiatus years were actually IPT's heyday, when they were airing it along side Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker's Guide, Neverwhere, and Blake's 7 as a friday night block.

They were the station that prevented Sci-Fi channel from getting exclusive rights to Doctor Who back in the 00's. They'd been paying for Doctor Who so long that BBC didn't want to cut them out, and Sci-Fi wanted a monopoly on US distribution.

you mean they reran it during said hiatus

Yes.

Doctor Who has been on Iowa Public Television's weekly schedule continuously (excepting the occasional interruption for special events) since 1974.

The hiatus years were actually IPT's heyday, when they were airing it along side Red Dwarf, Hitchhiker's Guide, Neverwhere, and Blake's 7 as a friday night block.