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* E4 airs {{Friends}} on a regular basis, (as much as 7 or 8 times a day) and at Christmas time will usually run a marathon of all the {{ChristmasEpisode}}s from the show. It was nicknamed "E-Friends" and "The Friends Channel" as a result. This seems to be wearing off however, as it was recently announced that Channel 4 had lost the rights to the show, the repeats ending sometime around 2011.

* E4 airs {{Friends}} on a regular basis, (as much as 7 or 8 times a day) and at Christmas time will usually run a marathon of all the {{ChristmasEpisode Christmas Episodes}} from the show. It was nicknamed "E-Friends" and "The Friends Channel" as a result. This seems to be wearing off however, as it was recently announced that Channel 4 had lost the rights to the show, the repeats ending sometime around 2011.

* Remember when G4TV actually aired other shows besides ''Cops'' and ''Campus PD''?

**** Lets Not Forget the Simpsons from the Late 90s to the Early 2000s It got 2 spots every weeknight, Three if you were willing to switch to the other Fox Station and a New episode every Sunday, Not to mention all the commercial bumps about What Homer was up to tonight Seriously this Troper can't remember a dinner of my Childhood that did not feature us watching The Simpsons

* TBS has an annual 24-hour marathon of ''AChristmasStory'', Christmas Eve night to Christmas Day night. Granted, it's a beloved holiday classic. But like the Iron Giant example pointed out, why show one movie for 24 hours?

* AdultSwim ran CowboyBebop every night for something like six years. It's only twenty-four episodes long.

So you're curling up on the armchair to watch your favorite show — but the schedule has been changed and yet another airing of the network's most popular (or just favored by execs) show is airing in its place. Your blood boils, but's there's nothing you can do -- it's the network's pet program.

** Then later, the network began to shill its CNReal block. The scheduling wasn't so bad; the live-action shows mainly stayed within the block. However, they were promoted over every cartoon and the kicker was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwlb2gGEk54 a video featuring Andrew W.K.]] proudly proclaiming that Cartoon Network was more than just cartoons.

** For CN Asia viewers, it's ''TomAndJerry'' or ''ThePinkPanther''. The entire afternoon is nothing but episodes of both, and all CN Originals (with the exception of Network Darlings ''Ben10'', ''Chowder'' and ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'') are scheduled after ''midnight''; ie. way past the bedtime of their target audience.

** Before ''[=SpongeBob=]'', it was ''{{Rugrats}}''. The show was {{uncanceled}} due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''[=SpongeBob=]'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio beind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' SpinOff ''AllGrownUp'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright.

** On Australia's Nickelodeon, until recenty atleast (mid-2010), they had Spongebob running from 12AM-6AM every night, for ''atleast'' a year. I bet they cycled through the same episodes every week.

* There is one Russian RealityShow called ''House-2''. Its plot involves a bunch of people locked in a big house and "trying to build love". It is very succesful (licenses are sold to several countries) has a huge fanbase and HypeBacklash-caused hatedom. There was a time when it was aired almost 24/7 until they lost a big lawsuit concerning sexual content. Now they have to air it only in late evenings.

* Professional sports. Immensely popular, sure, but try to imagine what it's like for people who don't like sports to have a program you have no interest in that can pre-empt the shows you DO want to watch seemingly at any time, rarely ends at the scheduled time (sometimes causing the next show to begin "in progress" or be skipped entirely), and when it does end and you think your show is about to start... here comes the ''post game show.'' And then the other networks [[NoHoperRepeat only run reruns against it]] because they don't want to have to compete with the show "everyone" is watching.
** In-universe example when it comes to sports: Football. If it's autumn and your network carries the NFL, expect a pop-up ad or commercial every five minutes reminding you when the next game is and who's playing. Even when it's a sports station like ESPN, the NFL will be promoted far more than anything else it carries. Those above problems with pre-emption? Baseball fans have the same problem when they're waiting for the World Series and Fox won't cut away from James Brown and Terry Bradshaw yukking it up...
* Chilean network Canal 13 just '''loves''' ''TheSimpsons'', to the point they will fill any spot they need with it. During the summer, the channel plays ''Simpsons'' blocks 2-3 hours long at morning, afternoon and evening. This roughly sums up eight hours a day of a single show, nevermind that they often skip episode credits to save time for adding an extra episode per block. In other words, they can air an entire season in a single day, the only reason they don't being that the episodes are randomly picked for the day. Sometimes, a small block of ''{{Futurama}}'' episodes airs before the morning ''Simpsons'' block.
** Still, it's not like they actually [[SarcasmMode cut in half all the episodes just to accommmodate for the prime time soaps]].

*** As previously stated, the entire station is dominated by their Tween Coms. Say what you will about {{Nickelodeon}} or CartoonNetwork, but with the sole exception of Phineas and Ferb, all that is ever played on Disney is aforementioned Tween Coms..

* The {{Nicktoons}} network currently (as of summer 2010) has ''DragonBallZKai'' and ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' as their frequently airing shows. In July, they'll start airing on weekdays along with [[InvaderZim a third show requested by popular demand]]. AndTheFandomRejoiced.

* Fox8, the Australian Fox channel, shows the Simpsons several times a day and airs nothing but the Simpsons on Saturday and Sunday mornings. During the 2006 Commonwealth Games they shouwed nothing but the Simpsons for 10 DAYS!

* Peachtree TV, the international version of TBS, appears to have a particular fetish for certain films which are played over and over and over on a regular basis, and this has been going on for years. Examples include ''The Hunt for Red October'', ''A Few Good Men'', and the Lethal Weapon movies.

* Before it was turned into ''TeenNick'', ''Nick GUTS'' would air almost nothing but ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'', ''NickArcade'' and the 'Dare shows.

** For CN Asia viewers, it's ''TomAndJerry'' or ''ThePinkPantherShow''. The entire afternoon is nothing but episodes of both, and all CN Originals (with the exception of Network Darlings ''Ben10'', ''{Chowder}'' and ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'') are scheduled after ''midnight''; ie. way past the bedtime of their target audience.

** For CN Asia viewers, it's ''[[TomAndJerry]]'' or ''[[ThePinkPantherShow]]''. The entire afternoon is nothing but episodes of both, and all CN Originals (with the exception of Network Darlings ''Ben10'', ''[[Chowder]]'' and ''TheMarvelousMisadventursOfFlapjack'') are scheduled after ''midnight''; ie. way past the bedtime of their target audience.

* Adult Swim ran CowboyBebop every night for something like six years. It's only twenty-four episodes long.

* In a cross-over with NetworkDecay, the Sci-Fi Channel does this a lot. For awhile, the fixation was ''GhostHunters''. No matter the time of day, chances are that 4.5 out of 5 times they'll be airing an episode of either it or it's spinoff ''GhostHuntersInternational''. Consider that Sci-Fi has a stable of shows that it show (the ''Stargates'', ''Farscape'', etc.), but you have to actually HUNT those down.

* Adult Swim ran CowboyBebop every night for something like six years. It's only twenty-four episodes long.

*** What about those 24 hours marathon of ''TheIronGiant'', which happen like 2 or 3 times? It's an animated masterpiece, but why show it for a whole day?

** Whoa am gonna sound old, but in 99-2003 you could not go one day without seeing either ''{{Dexters Laboratory}}'' or ''{{Powerpuff Girls}}'' playing on the network. Both of these shows were practically CN's mascots during that time.

* Professional sports. Immensely popular, sure, but try to imagine what it's like for people who don't like sports to have a program you have no interest in that can pre-empt the shows you DO want to watch seemingly at any time, rarely ends at the scheduled time (sometimes causing the next show to begin "in progress" or be skipped entirely), and when it does end and you think your show is about to start... here comes the ''post game show.'' And then the other networks only run reruns against it because they don't want to have to compete with the show "everyone" is watching.

* The work of FreshTV for both CartoonNetwork and Teletoon.

** In-universe example when it comes to sports: Football. If it's autumn and your network carries the NFL, expect a pop-up ad or commercial every five minutes reminding you when the next game is and who's playing. Even when it's a sports station like ESPN, the NFL will be promoted far more than anything else it carries.