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* 10 PM - 11 PM: The third and last hour of Prime Time. Seldom comedy; almost always drama or (for a later decade) a news magazine.
* 11 PM - 11:30 PM: Local news.
* 11:30 PM - 1 AM: Late night. Dominated in the 1960s and 1970s by [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Tonight Show]]''; the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] news program ''[[Nightline]]'', launched in 1980, was the first serious competitor. [[CBS]] subsisted on action drama repeats and shows rejected for prime time and made-for-TV movies in this slot (notwithstanding the one season Pat Sajak hosted a talk show for them) until they poached [[David Letterman]] for ''The Late Show'' in the early 1990s. Stations that did not have a network show running in this slot would play an old cheap movie (the kind that ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' liked to riff on) after the local news, and then go dark and show the test pattern until the 5 AM farm report. In [[The Eighties]], [[infomercial]]s changed that because they were willing to temporarily pay the cost of running the station to hawk their products.
** Sometime in [[The Nineties]] and almost simultaneously, the networks moved the start of late night back 5 minutes to give affiliates more commercial time on the late local news without having to cut [[High School]] sports coverage or the [[Yet Another Baby Panda]] story.
*** This occured during the First [[Gulf War]].
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