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* [[YTV]] completely adores ''[[iCarly]]'' and ''[[Mr. Young]]''.

* Ever since [[Comedy Central]] UK picked up the rights to [[Friends]], they've been using ''any'' excuse to air it as much as possible. It started out as daily double-bills that are repeated at night...and then the compilations started...

''The Best of'' '''Gunther?'''|What?! OH COME ON!!! Gunther?! Really?! '''''GUNTHER?!''''' }}

* [[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]], in a sense, at the time it was first on ABC. It's ratings, especially since it aired against ''[[Friends]]'' at the height of it's popularity, were never all that great (''any'' other show with it's ratings would have been cancelled), but it was so cheap to produce they kept it around to keep the slot filled.

* 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 [[No Hoper Repeat|only run reruns against it]] because they don't want to have to compete with the show "everyone" is watching. For that, you can blame [[wikipedia:Heidi Game|Heidi]].

** This was actually lampshaded by on the Series 16 premiere of ''[[Top Gear]]'' in January 2011:

* Football in the United States. 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 preemption? 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...

* 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 favorite 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.