Talk:Graveyard slot

This article is incredibly US-centric! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.83.163.140 (talk) 12:12, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

TiVo (possibly other DVR usage for content)

I do not believe this is the case any longer, but somebody finding some citable sources for the era when DVRs (I know TiVo did this) used Graveyard hours to transmit keyed video to the units for things like ads and other video content would add a fairly novel use of these hours. 74.240.193.18 (talk) 06:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Friday night death slot

Notable or not, this topic is solely US-centric. Well... the introduction explains it, but the fact that the topic is US-centric makes the article vulnerable to unreferenced examples and original research. Remove all examples, and you get a short entry about the topic. I don't think UK has problems with Friday TV scheduling as much as US. The US Friday programming may be adequately explained in "graveyard slot" article. George Ho (talk) 23:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't see how being US-centric makes it less notable, since we have many many notable US-centric articles. The graveyard slot is also generally any day between 2:00 AM and 6:00 AM (as opposed to Friday only between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM) and does not lead to cancellation as suggested with Friday night death slot. We also multiple secondary and tertiary sources for "Friday night death slot" so there is no issue with original research. — Hasdi Bravo • 18:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

How is it not? I don't see which non-primary sources are used to verify the examples. --George Ho (talk) 19:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Wait. Your issue is that the examples are unsourced? That's going to mess how Wikipedia been citing episode airing dates for its TV articles. :/ — Hasdi Bravo • 19:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Sources that connect the topic and examples must be found. We can't give readers an idea that one specific show fell victim to the "Friday night death slot". See Arab Winter (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for example. George Ho (talk) 19:39, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Never mind; I am rescinding this proposal. --George Ho (talk) 20:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Lower-tier networks

I hear there's an editing conflict in regards to The CW, MyNetworkTV, and defunct networks UPN and The WB in the 7 p.m. Sunday slot. Would it be better to list all of them but MyNetworkTV like this?

For example:

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• The CW (and in the past UPN and The WB) has had varied scheduling strategies involving Sunday evenings:
  • From 1995 to 2002, The WB aired new programming (usually sitcoms) in the 7 p.m. slot, and then from 2002 to 2006, aired encore programming (7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls and Reba) under the secondary titles Beginnings and Easy View, a scheduling format inherited by The CW for its inaugural season.
  • By contrast, UPN generally never programmed Sunday nights throughout its existence, with its only contribution to the night being in early 2001, when it aired lower-tier XFL football games on Sunday evenings during the league's only season in its first iteration. Instead, UPN offered to its affiliates a syndicated package of movies from sister studio Paramount Pictures until 2000, then a two-hour block of same-week repeats of its original programming until 2006.
  • In the 2007–08 season, The CW filled the slot with advertorial entertainment programs (CW Now and Online Nation) that were widely considered a failure, with sitcom repeats taking over the slot mid-season. In the 2008–09 season, the slot carried In Harm's Way, a reality series from the timeslot's lessee (Media Rights Capital) also considered a failure, and after that season, the CW returned Sunday evenings to their affiliates, leaving the night completely until returning in 2018–19. It decided in that schedule form to not program the 7 p.m. slot, starting their programming at 8 p.m. Eastern to avert programming around football.

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Lamp301 (talk) 04:23, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Weekdays, 4-5 pm

The article claims that weekdays from 4 to 5 pm became a death slot in the 1980s, with the major networks ceasing to program the time period. But if the time slot was so bad, how did Oprah Winfrey become a billionaire hosting a talk show which aired in many markets at 4 pm? The problem with the 4-5 pm timeslot was not that people weren't watching television, but that local stations found that they could make more money by airing syndicated talk shows and other syndicated programs during that time slot, rather than what the networks were offering (when the networks still offered programs for 4 pm). There are no citations in the paragraph about this time slot, so I think better sourcing is needed as to whether this time slot should be covered in this article at all. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:48, 8 November 2023 (UTC)