8:00) Last  telecast: 12 September 1957. The Lone Ranger was the only ABC  program to rank in top 15 when the A. C. Neilson Company began  compiling national ratings for network programs. In 1950, Lone  Ranger ranked #7 with a 41.2% share. Show was on ABC throughout its  run. Reruns began on CBS 0n Saturday Mornings in 1953 and continued  to September 1960 and then on NBC for another four years. ABC showed  reruns of it in late afternoons from 1958 to 1961.