Whatever happened to clearly defined schedules?

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I've noticed, over the last few years, the gradual loss of clearly defined TV schedules. Now, I know the writer's strike did mess things up a bit. However, even last year, you were lucky to get 3-5 new episodes of any one show before it was interrupted by American Idol, football, basketball, or whatever. I think long gone are the days where you tv shows ran 26 episodes per season. We're lucky to get 10 it seems. You would think, with all the technological advances in the TV/movie industry (cameras, post-production software, etc), one could churn out episodes even faster than, say, 10 years ago. Because of all the re-runs, I rarely watch tv anymore. There are only a small handful of shows I watch to begin with: Law & Order franchise, CSI franchise, Criminal Minds, House, Smallville, Moonlight (where did that one go!?), Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, and New Amsterdam. The majority of those have been mostly repeats for the last 2 years (again, writer's strike aside). I know TV is free and I shouldn't complain. However, I am sure they are losing viewers due to this. I can only see re-runs so many times, especially recent repeats. I'm probably just whining and most may not agree with me. But I just want to see new episodes .... several in a row ... not one or two in a row before it's either pre-empted or gone back to re-runs. Grrrrr! LOL