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nights, 23:30 on Friday nights, 23:00 on weekends, and at 00:30 or 01:00 on eve and actual days of public holidays. On Vasantham, prime time ends at 23:00 on Mondays to Thursdays, midnight (or later) on Friday and Saturday nights, and at 23:30 on Sunday nights. On Channel NewsAsia, prime time ends at 23:01, immediately after the news headlines, seven days a week; on Channel U, prime time ends at 23:00 seven days a week. Generally, however, prime time is considered to be from 18:00 to 00:00.
517: 1173:, prime time refers to the time period in which the most-watched shows are broadcast. Prime time in Spain starts quite late when compared to most nations as it runs from 22:30 till 01:00. Most news programmes in Spain air at 21:00 for an hour and prime time follows. However, due to fierce competition, especially among the private stations prime time has even been delayed until 23:00. Most channels are delaying prime time in order to protect their top shows from sporting events. 1294: 43: 323:) dominate majority of the programming schedules. Before 2018, daily evening newscasts would kick off primetime between 17:00 and 18:00, although some channels, notably SCTV, broadcast their daily evening newscasts earlier, usually at 16:00 or 16:30. The practice of airing news at primetime ended in 2018 in favor of adding more sinetrons to the schedule, except for TVRI, NET. and Trans7, which have kept their newscasts, 869:, which is also simulcast on most of its other specialist and regional channels (The Third). The conclusion of the bulletin 15 minutes later marks the beginning of prime time, as it has since the 1950s. In consequence, most other channels—public and private alike—also choose to start their prime time at 20:15. In the 1990s, the commercial channel 1425:
broadcast only from 8:00–10:00 p.m., a time period known as "common prime". Most networks air primetime programming nightly, but the smaller MyNetworkTV has programmed only on weekday evenings since its 2009 retreat towards a programming service. The CW returned to Sunday broadcasting in 2019,
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Prime time is commonly defined as 8:00–11:00 p.m. Eastern/Pacific and 7:00–10:00 p.m. Central/Mountain. On Sundays, the major broadcast television networks traditionally begin their primetime programming at 7:00 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific, 6:00 p.m. Central/Mountain). Some networks,
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On Channel 8, prime time ends at midnight or 0:15 on weekdays, at 0:30 on Saturday nights, and at 23:30 on Sunday nights. On Channel 5, prime time ends at 0:00 on weekdays, at 1:30 (or later) on Saturday nights, and at 0:30 on Sunday nights. On Suria, prime time ends at 22:30 on Monday to Thursday
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prime time starts with the main news from 20:00 to 20:30 (now 20:00 to 21:00) and ends either at 23:00 or 1:00, or possibly later. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, foreign drama series (mostly American), films, and entertainment programmes. Programmes classified as 18 are
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In Mexico, central time normally starts at 7:30 p.m. and periodically ends at 10:30 p.m. The main networks, such as Las Estrellas, Azteca Uno, and Imagen Televisión, broadcast telenovelas produced by themselves or productions acquired from other countries such as Turkey and Brazil, among others.
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For the minor networks, prime time consists of American television series on weekdays, with encores of those shows on weekends. Prime time originally started earlier at around 19:00, but the evening newscasts were lengthened to 90 minutes and now start at 18:30, instead of the original one-hour
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broadcasts a daily newscast from 19:00 to 20:00. Also, many private broadcasters have daily newscasts either before or after the HTY newscast, at around 20.05, followed by the start of their own prime time. Many broadcasters without daily newscasts start their prime time at 20:00. Prime time
247:, the broadcasters also air special religious and cooking shows starting from 14:00 to 20:00. affecting the primetime hours. Late-night talk shows are also aired from 01:00 to 04:00, except during Ramadan. Religious shows are also broadcast simultaneously from 01:00, along with 1706:(a block of a day's programming schedule) with the most viewers and is generally where television networks and local stations reap much of their advertising revenues. In recent years, television advertising expenditure in the US has been highest during prime-time drama shows. 479:, the broadcasters also air special religious and cooking shows starting from 14:00 to 19:00/19:30 with "Ramadan" special programs airing from 19:30/20:00 to 21:30/22:00 affecting the primetime hours for some channels. There is also a "midnight prime time" during 913:, which follows at 21:30. American and other series, movies, talk-shows, and magazines run until 23:30. The prime-time lineup is preceded by daily news programmes at 18:30. At weekends, prime time begins at 19:00, with blockbuster movies and television shows. 1080:
television prime time is between 19:00 and 23:00 on working days and from 15:00 to 01:00 on holidays. On radio stations there are morning, day and evening prime times. The most common division: morning—6:30 to 10:00; day—~12:00 to 14:00; evening—16:00 to 21:00.
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began broadcasting all of the entertainment programming transferred to it from that date from M1, meaning that prime time on Duna now begins at 18:00, starting with the simulcast of the 18:00 edition of Híradó from the newly re-launched news channel, M1.
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in its entirety after the conclusion of coverage, and the rest of the prime-time schedule on the East Coast is shifted to compensate. For example, if game coverage were to end at 7:30 p.m., prime time would end at 11:30 p.m.
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system is explicitly designed for the optimum measurement of audience viewership by dayparts, with prime time being of most interest. Television viewership is, in general, highest on weekday evenings, as most Americans are
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and have largely abandoned scheduling of new scripted programming on that night. The major networks still maintain a prime-time programming schedule on Saturdays, with a mix of live sporting events (most commonly
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p.m. The difference between peak radio listenership and television viewership times is due to the fact that people listen to their radios most often while driving to and from work (hence the name "drive time").
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in the 1971–1972 season, networks began programming at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific/6:30 p.m. Central and Mountain on weeknights. The change helped instigate what is colloquially known as the
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both follow the same model as the larger U.S. networks (although both may occasionally air programming in the 7:00 p.m. hour in the event of scheduling conflicts with other U.S. imports), while
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previously scheduled repeats of its animated series in the 7:00 hour, allowing themselves to simply pre-empt the reruns if a game ran long. This was later replaced by a half-hour-long wrap-up show,
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at 20:05 (Monday to Thursday) or 20:00 (Friday to Sunday), various movies on Fridays, serials or films (winter and summer) on Saturdays, and programmes or films (winter and summer) on Sundays. On
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during daytime, asleep during the overnights, and out taking part in social events on weekends; thus, television has its highest audience at times when people are unlikely to be away from home.
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Prime time usually takes place from 19:00 until 22:00. After that, programs classified as "PG" (Parental Guidance) are allowed to be broadcast. Frontline dramas appear during this time slot in
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in Malay and literally General Viewing or General Audiences in English) throughout the whole day. However, programmes broadcast after 23:00 are still considered prime time. As of 2019,
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mandates that all games be broadcast in their entirety in the markets of the teams involved. Due to this rule, game telecasts may sometimes overrun into the 7:00 p.m. ET hour.
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culture. Spanish people generally work from 09:00–14:00 and then from 17:00–20:00 as opposed to the 09:00–17:00 which is common in other countries. The popular late-night show
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football game on the east coast in order to show a movie (and, in the process, causing viewers to miss an unexpected comeback by the Raiders to win the game), the present-day
772:, prime time starts at 20:00 every day (including weekends). Usually, the programmes aired are Bulgarian or Turkish series and reality shows, followed by a late newscast. The 468:. During this time the majority of the local channels broadcast their most popular shows. However, state channels broadcast Khabarnama (New Bulletin) from past many decades. 924:
at 19:30. After the news, the channel broadcast American and other series, talk shows, magazines, and news programmes until 22:00, after which came the daily news magazine
1984: 2267: 1607: 847:, prime time starts between 18:45 and 20:00 and generally ends at midnight. However, on Friday night / Saturday morning, prime time usually continues until 1:00. 1614:
in prime time; these quotas indicate at least half of Canadian prime-time programs must be Canadian in origin, but the majority of this is served by national and
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during the late 1990s–2000 also helped to extend prime time well into the early hours with the show being watched by a share of 40%, despite finishing at 02:00.
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zones are either on their own to delay broadcast by an hour or two, or collectively form a small, regional network feed with others in the same time zone.
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has its news from 19:30 to 20:00, they also start broadcasting prime time content at 20:15. The same applies for nearly all channels seated in Austria or
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In the 1990s, prime time in Spain began at 21:00, moving to 21:30 in the latter half of the 1990s and 22:00 in the early 2000s. Commercial broadcaster
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series played then are called 8 o'clock series and are expected to have high viewer ratings. Also, the evening news usually start from 18:00 or 19:00.
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The vast majority of prime-time programming in English-speaking North America comes from the United States, with only a limited amount produced in
243:, most of the television stations broadcast their specially-produced shows and world television premieres starting from 15:00 to midnight. During 1397:, there is no change in the interpretation or usage of "prime time", as the concept is not attached to time zones in any way. Affiliates in the 2122: 1554: 2014: 441:'s prime time continues until 12:00 a.m. Programmes during prime time may have longer commercial breaks due to the number of viewers. 1184:
have attempted to shift prime time back to 21:30 in 2006 and Spring 2007, but these attempts have been unsuccessful. Fellow public channel
307:, prime time occurs between 20:00 and 23:30. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, talent shows and reality shows. 239:, Gazi TV, Channel 9, and Channel i, broadcast their prime-time shows from 20:00 to 23:00 after their primetime news at 19:00. During 358:
call, which varies in timing between 04:30 and 05:00. The time slot is usually filled with entertainment and religious programming.
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p.m. is preempted, with the West Coast and eastern markets airing only an early afternoon game usually receiving a repeat of the 10
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generally ends between 22:00 and 23:00, followed by the late night edition of the network newscast and adult-oriented programming.
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at 20:00 and shows cultural and political programmes from 21:00 to 22:00, with series and late-night news following at 23:00.
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Prime time can be extended or truncated if coverage of sporting events run past their allotted end time. Since the "
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p.m. series instead. In an extreme case, CBS's prime time can be extended past midnight during broadcasts of the
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has traditionally aired as close to 7:00 p.m. ET as possible. Even if a game runs past that hour, CBS shows
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Spain might also be unique in that it has a second prime time, running from 14:30–17:00 which coincides with the
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and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of programmes that are aired on television between 8:00
1406: 865: 863:'s oldest public television network, airs the country's most-watched news broadcast, the main edition of the 773: 576: 272: 93: 1624: 997: 984:), a slot called "access prime time". Shows, movies, and sport events are usually shown during prime time. 715:
Hours of start or end for peak times in selected European countries (notice lateness of Southern countries)
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suffered a significant loss of audience share when it tried moving the start of its prime time to 20:00.
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Some domestic prime-time productions may be affected because of certain major sporting events such as
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A survey by Nielsen revealed that viewers watched almost two hours' worth of TV during prime time.
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prime time starts at 21:10 (20:35 in the 1980s, 20:50 in the 1990s and 2000s, 21:05 in the 2010s).
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in Canada), encores of programs aired earlier in the week, films, non-scripted reality programs,
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began its prime time with a game show at 18:30, which was followed by the daily news programme
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hour became a lucrative timeslot for syndicated programming in the years that followed, with
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game went into double overtime, causing a 45-minute delay of a highly promoted episode of
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Since the early 2000s, the major networks have come to consider Saturday prime time as a
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Likewise, the vast majority of Spanish-language programming in North America comes from
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programs are broadcast at 20:00 and the highest-rated television program airs at 21:00.
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is commencing. It takes place from 02:00 (or 01:45 in some channels) and ends at the
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is commencing. It takes place from 02:00 (or 02:30 in some channels) and ends at the
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Genre breakdown of primetime TV advertising expenditure in the United States in 2011
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a.m., including the most successful series and telenovelas in the country (such as
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a.m., including the most successful series and telenovelas in the country (such as
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Block of television programming occurring during peak viewing time in the evening
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schedule prime-time programs only within the common prime period (with the 10:00
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The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present
1824: 675:, prime time dramas (ละคร; lakhon) air from 20:30 to 22:30. Most dramas are 1969: 1715: 1596: 1588: 1210: 1105:). Generally, however, prime time is considered to be from 20:00 to 23:00. 952:, prime time starts at 19:30. It is preceded by a daily newscast at 19:00. 823:, prime time starts at 21:00. It is preceded by a daily newscast at 20:30. 564: 2260:[In Paraguay, TV is preferred for information and entertainment]. 1937:
pm, but it can be extended to cover the entire evening of television (5:00
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call, which varies in timing between 04:30 and 05:00. Also, during other
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do not affect the domestic prime-time programmes but only during daytime.
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also tried to pull prime time back to 21:00 in early 2015, to no avail.
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However, in the rare case where the NFL game runs excessively late (8
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is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the
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p.m. hour given over to a network newscast or a nightly talk show.
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at 19:50 (weekdays) or 19:45 (weekends), and then the soap opera
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The lateness in the start of prime time in Spain is also due to
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programs produced by their news divisions, and, occasionally,
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List of longest-running American primetime television series
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then added Saturday for the first time in 2021. In Canada,
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pm. It is preceded by daily newscasts; Dnevnik RTV SLO (7:00
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not allowed to be broadcast before 10:00 p.m., but on
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to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term
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is officially from 6:00 p.m. to midnight, following
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on Citytv and CTV 2, and CBC airing its news program
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usually begins at 20:30 in order to not compete with
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Effects of time zones on North American broadcasting
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and the second channel from the Public broadcasting
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Before 15 March 2015, the public television station
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