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'''Strip programming''' or '''stripping''' is a technique used for [[scheduling]] [[terrestrial television|television]] and [[radio broadcasting|radio]] [[broadcast programming|programming]] to ensure consistency and coherency. [[Television program|Television]] or [[radio program]]s of a particular style (such as a [[television series]]) are given a regular time slot during the week, so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. For example, radio and television [[broadcasting|broadcasters]] may program a [[news]] program at [[rush hour]]s every day, or at least every weekday.
Strip programming is used to
==Overview==
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For much of the 1960s and into the early 1990s, stripping for syndication was one of, if not ''the'' primary profit component of the studio production model in American television. A show became far more profitable if it succeeded in getting three full U.S. seasons (about 75 [[episode]]s) or more, as then it was possible to strip it for fifteen weeks (15×5=75) before needing to repeat episodes. Once a series attained five seasons (which would push the show over the [[100 episodes]] threshold), it would be a full six months before it would repeat. For ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', in particular, this was relevant. Only due to an unprecedented letter-writing campaign was the show renewed for its third season, and it did not begin to attain wider popularity until appearing in syndication for a number of years. If it had failed to be renewed for a third season, it would not have been syndicated, and its subsequent popularity and influence would likely not have occurred. Many other shows with lukewarm response in their initial runs became widely appreciated cult favorites as a result of syndication, or helped keep cultural memes associated with them far more widely known than if the shows had only been viewable during their initial time frame.
[[Michael Grade]] was responsible for introducing '''stripped and stranded''' schedules to the [[BBC]]'s television service in the [[United Kingdom]] in his role as controller of [[BBC1]]: from February 18, 1985, onward,{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} the weekday evening schedule has consisted almost entirely of half-hour or hour-long programs starting on the hour, or half-hour (the BBC channels do not carry spot advertising). For example, Grade's new schedule provided at 19:00, the talk show ''[[Wogan]]'' thrice weekly and two episodes of ''[[EastEnders]]'' and fixed the national news at 18:00 and 21:00, and regional news at 18:30. Before this date, programs
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