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Definition: Prime Time |
Prime TimeNoun1. The hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Prime time n. [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or network. Back in the days of big timesharing machines `prime time' was when lots of people were competing for limited cycles, usually the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for night mode hacking. The term fell into disuse during the early PC era, but has been revived to refer to times of day or evening at which the Internet tends to be heavily loaded, making Web access slow. The hackish tendency to late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit. Source: Jargon File. |
Fine Arts | Programs aired in -- are limited to 10 minutes of commercial material. . . in any 60-minutes period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Broadcast periods viewed or listened to by the greatest number of persons and for which a station charges the most for air time. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prime time refers to the block of programming on American television during the late evening. In the United States, television networks broadcast their prime time programming in two blocks one for the Eastern half of the United States and one for the Western half of the United States. Prime time broadcasting is therefore viewed between 8:00 P.M. and 11:00 P.M. Eastern time and between 7:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M. Central. The Western block of programming is broadcast with a time delay of two hours which results in it being viewed between 8:00 and 11:00 P.M. Mountain and 7:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M. Pacific.Sometimes the hour before the times mentioned is also considered prime time, especially on Sunday.
Prime time is the block of time with the most viewers and is generally where television networks and local stations spend most of their programming budgets and reap much of their advertising revenues. The existence of prime time in the United States is largely an artifact of now repealled regulations of the Federal Communications Commission which limited the number of hours that a network can require its affiliates to broadcast. As a result, networks generally require their affiliates to broadcast expensive network programming at the hours which have the highest viewing audience.
Other blocks of programming include the evening news, daytime soap operas, and overnight, Sunday morning talkshows.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prime time."
Crosswords: Prime Time |
| Non-English Usage: "Prime Time" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (prime time). |
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Lyrics | Stop! Prime Time! (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tom Smothers' Organic Prime Time Space Ride (1971) Once Upon a Prime Time (1966) The Prime Time (1960) Prime Time (1996) Go-Go's: Prime Time (1985) | |
Song Titles | 3 Wishes (performing artist: Ornette and Prime Time Coleman) | |
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Civil Liberties | Colombia | In late January, RCN prime time journalist and host of RCN top-ranking opinion show La Noche Claudia Gurisatti left the country for 3 months, following an alert from the authorities of a plot to kill her. (references) |
Bangladesh | The activities of the Prime Minister occupy the bulk of prime time news bulletins on both television and radio, followed by the activities of members of the Cabinet. (references) | |
Economic History | Yemen | The maximum ad rate on Channel One for imported brand products during prime time (from 8:55 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.) is $500 per 30 seconds between programs and $650 per 30 seconds during programs, plus a commercial agency commission. (references) |
Political Economy | Costa Rica | US networks ABC and NBC recently withdrew their prime time programming from cable providers due to the lack of an acceptable licensing and royalty arrangement. (references) |
ITALY | The Italian law exceeds the EU Directive by making 51 percent European content mandatory during prime time, and by excluding talk shows from the programming that may be counted towards fulfilling the quota. (references) | |
Trade | France | The prime time rules go beyond the requirements of the EU Broadcast Directive and limit the access of U.S. programs to the lucrative French prime time market. (references) |
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Expression using "prime time": not ready for prime time. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "prime time"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ساعة الإستماع القصوي. (various references) | |
French | heure de grande écoute. (various references) | |
German | Prime Time, Hauptsendezeit. (various references) | |
Hungarian | főműsoridő. (various references) | |
Italian | prima serata, periodo di diffusione principale, fascia di massimo ascolto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | プッシュプル増幅器 (placard, plaza, plug, plug compatible, plywood, PO, practical, practice, pragmatism, Prague, Pravda, price, price leadership, pride, primal, primary, primary care, primary health care, prime rate, priori, priority, privacy, private, private brand, private offering, private room, prize money, Puccini, pudding, push lock, push-button phone, pushing, push-pull amplifier, put), コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, traffic light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プライ タイ , ゴールデンアワー (golden hour). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imepray imetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | horário nobre. (various references) | |
Spanish | horas de audiencia, hora de mayor audiencia. (various references) | |
Swedish | bästa sändningstid. (various references) | |
Turkish | prime time, izlenme oranının en yüksek olduğu zaman. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-m-m-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: emeriti, emptier. | |
-3 letters: empire, epimer, metier, mitier, permit, pitier, premie, reemit, retime, temper. | |
-4 letters: emmer, emmet, merit, meter, metre, mimer, miter, mitre, peter, prime, primi, remet, remit, retem, retie, tempi, timer, tripe. | |
-5 letters: emir, emit, impi, item, meet, meme, mere, mete, mime, mire, miri, mite, peer, peri, perm, pert, pier, pree, prim, rete, rime. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-m-m-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: imperilment. | |
+3 letters: imperilments. | |
+4 letters: epigrammatize, pyrimethamine. | |
+5 letters: epigrammatized, epigrammatizer, epigrammatizes, impermeability, impoverishment, pyrimethamines. | |
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