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* Affiliate syndication is likely to do this with either the darling network show of the moment (watch out for ''HowIMetYourMother'' in the fall 2010 syndication blocks) or court shows (since there are plenty of them out there). Likely justified, as local affiliates - and especially their sister stations - don't have the same budget as the major networks and need material that they can air on the cheap. The big network like NBC or CBS doesn't directly own the local station but won't have a problem with an affiliate run its own syndicated reruns.

* Affiliate syndication is likely to do this with either the darling network show of the moment (watch out for ''HowIMetYourMother'' in the fall 2010 syndication blocks) or court shows (since there are plenty of them out there).

** {{Adult Swim}} absolutely loves {{Fox}} reruns, specifically {{King of the Hill}}, {{Family Guy}}, {{American Dad}}. When Adult Swim gets 9PM weekdays will be 6 out of 9 hours these three shows (including repeats). In one week, there is going to be 14 hours of {{King of the Hill}}, 12.5 hours of {{Family Guy}}, and 10 hours of {{American Dad}} for a total of 36.5 hours.

* Channel One airs five episodes of ''StarTrek'' on a typical day. Monday to Friday they air, in sequence, one each from ''[[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', ''[[StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'', ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' and ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'', with ''Voyager'' having an evening repeat. On Saturdays, all the week's ''Voyager'' episodes are repeated again, and ''TNG'' does the same on Sundays.

* Virgin 1 shows StarTrek throughout the week, with TNG/Enterprise getting two showings a week per episode, DS9 getting two showings a week per episode, and Voyager getting... WHAT? 4 showings a week per episode?
** To be honest, that means 5 new episodes a week, thus 20 voyagers a week.
** No TOS?

* HowIt'sMade and variations thereupon for TheScienceChannel

* The Ion network shows ''Ghost Whisperer'', ''Without a Trace'' and ''Criminal Minds'' on weekdays. That's it. Nothing but those three shows between 3 pm and midnight ET, which is the network's ''entire weekday schedule'' - your local affiliate likely stocks the remaining hours with paid or religious programming. Granted, this likely means they are the only shows they can afford...

* 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 preempt 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.

** And then there's {{Distraction}}, a 16-epsiode live action game show (one of the first signs of the channel's NetworkDecay), which, to this day, is still airing there despite the short amount of episodes.

** Phineas and Ferb is quickly becoming incredibly overexposed due to the fact that it has performed well over expectations and is gaining a massive fanbase. It's gotten to the point where Disney is [[DuelingShows trying to compare]] ''PhineasAndFerb'' to ''[=~SpongeBob SquarePants~=]'' ([[CashCowFranchise Still got a long way to go, chump...]]).

** It's just ''Phineas and Ferb'' (no love lost for the show though) in the Netherlands.
*** Disney is [[DuelingShows trying to compare]] ''PhineasAndFerb'' to ''[=~SpongeBob SquarePants~=]'' ([[CashCowFranchise Still got a long way to go, chump...]]). Expect P&F to explode on Disney Channel and DisneyXD soon.

** You say that like it's a bad thing...

* Animax Latin America was criticized towards it's anime-only run because of this. Between 2005 to 2007, shows such as FullMetalAlchemist and GetBackers (and to a lesser extent, HunterxHunter and PitaTen, although the latter was removed from the schedule in 2007). To be fair though, both series did have 52 episodes.
** When TheTwelveKingdoms premeired, it pretty much cluttered most of the schedule in the past few years (It had 47 episodes).
** And then there's {{Distraction}}, a 16-epsiode live action game show (one of the first signs of the channel's NetworkDecay), which, to this day, is still airing there despite the short amount of episodes.

* TheHistoryChannel always runs a {{BandofBrothers}} marathon about every four months or so.

** You say that like it was a bad thing.

** Unfortunately.

* ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' (U.S. Edition) was a massive hit for {{ABC}} in a time when the network was struggling. They quickly capitalized on the popularity of the show, giving it multiple airings per week (up to ''four'' days a week) in order to keep the ratings up. Eventually the fervor of the show died down, but it still enjoys success in the syndication format.

* For the longest time, TheHistoryChannel was The Modern Marvels Channel: Guaranteed No Historical Documentaries (or we'll give you a free DVD set of Modern Marvels!)

** ''AdventureTime''.

** {{Toonami}} was obviously head-over-heals for [[DragonBall Dragon Ball Z,]] which, up until it ended in 2003, (then up until the uncut version stopped airing in 2005) was shown as many times as possible. To be fair, it was highly acclaimed, very popular, and the biggest ratings whore ever at the time. And then came [[{{Naruto}} a certain show about an orange-wearing ninja...]] (pictured above)

* Tennis on Eurosport. Go to any forum of a particular sport that isn't Association Football (or Tennis obviously) and you are guaranteed to find that most european fans there absolutely despise Tennis for the sole reason that they've spent large chunks of the last 20 years wanting to watch their favourite sport but not able to, as Eurosport was preempting it with an overtimed Tennis match, usually from the lower rounds of some unimportant tournament. Cycling and Basketball fans are especially prone to fly into a rage from this.

** The original ''Ben10'' used to be like this. The sequels, on the other hand, tend to only be shown a couple times a week.

** 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''; i.e. way past the bedtime of their target audience.

* ITV and it's reality programming, specifically, TheXFactor and BritainsGotTalent. Both shows are repeated frequently, have their own spin-off shows (The Xtra Factor and Britain's Got More Talent) aired on the sister channel, ITV2, and have so much advertising and promotional material it's hard not to go anywhere in the UK without seeing something to do with The X Factor. Not to mention the numerous specials and reality shows based on prominent faces of either programme (Cheryl Cole, Dannii Minogue and Piers Morgan in particular).