- Stripping (television)
Stripping is an industry term used to refer to the practice of running a syndicated television series every day of the week. It is commonly restricted to describing the airing of shows which were weekly in their first run; "The West Wing" could be stripped but not "
Jeopardy! ", as the latter is intended to be run daily.Michael Grade was responsible for introducing stripped and stranded schedules toBBC television in his role as controller ofBBC One : from18 February 1985 onwardFact|date=August 2007 the schedule has consisted entirely of half-hour or one-hour programmes starting on the hour, or half hour (the BBC channels do not carryspot advertising ). For example, Grade's new schedule provided at 19:00 theWogan chat show thrice weekly and two helpings ofEastEnders and fixed the national news at 18:00 and 21:00, regional news at 18:30.Before this date programmes would start at almost any time and programs could have different times on consecutive weeks or even days, for example [ [http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/tvheroes/michael_grade.php Michael Grade The most popular media mogul in Britain] ] :
17:40 60 Minutes (17:52 regional news, 18:15 national magazine)
18:40 Harty
19:05 Cliff!
20:05 Cockles
21:00 News
21:25 Whicker’s World
22:30 Sportsnight.Compare with a 2007 schedule for the same channel:
18:00 BBC News and Weather
18:30 Regional News Program
19:00 Watchdog
19:30 EastEnders
20:00 Holby City
21:00 Judge John Deed
22:00 BBC News
22:35 Comedy DramaStripping has also become an even more common practice on many British channels since the introduction of multi-channel cable and satellite in the 1990s.In many other countries, even new episodes of various series are aired every weekday. For example, if such a station gets the most recent season of a U.S. TV series, the episodes will air in this way for two or three weeks, after which they are replaced by another show in the same timeslot.
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