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* Fictional example: in ''[[Network]]'', the network president (Ned Beatty) refuses to cancel ''The Howard Beale Show'' despite tanking ratings, because Beale is basically acting as his mouthpiece.

* The US version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' is perhaps the [[Trope Codifier]] and poster boy of this. The show 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. Unfortunately Millionaire's overplay escalated the show's downfall and cancellation. On the bright side, it still enjoys success in the syndication format.

** During summer 2010, ''[[Big Time Rush]]'' and ''[[Victorious]]'' were both big ones for Nickelodeon. They would rerun ''at least two'' episodes of both ''every single day''. Not counting Friday and Saturday night blocks. ''Big Time Rush'' had just enough episodes to cover a full week, but ''Victorious'' only had eight episodes to air.

** Plus, when the network's teen-coms air new two-part specials, after their airing, it'll probably rerun lots of times shortly afterward. When "iStart a Fan War" premiered in mid-November, it aired a total of nine times in the remainder of the month alone. Similarly with "iParty with Victorious", because Nickelodeon went so far as to make an extended version of it.

* [[Nick at Nite]] is every bit as bad with ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', probably worse. First, they would run marathons of the show for every occasion imaginable using any excuse they could get, no matter how shoddy. Then they did away with the excuses, and began showing marathons of ''George Lopez'' without even giving an excuse to do so. On multiple occasions, they aired '''over 40 hours''' of it in one week, setting up a bizarre situation often where his self-titled [[Talk Show]] on [[TBS]] is competing with his own old sitcom.

** Lately [[Cartoon Network]] has REALLY been hyping up ''[[Level Up]]'', first the movie and then the series. The show has been getting ads big in number and in length, you'll be hard-pressed to go through a commercial break that DOESN'T have an ad for the show.

** Not only that, after ''Level Up'' premiered, they've rerun it every weeknight even though only ''one episode'' had premiered. Plus, the second episode aired ''commercial-free'', [http://www.nickandmore.com/2012/02/01/level-up-goes-commercial-free-for-second-and-third-episodes/ as will the third.] [[Cartoon Network|CN's]] cartoons could only dream of this kind of attention.

** [[Word of God|According to Kevin Pereira,]] the shows are an easy way for the network to fund its original programming, despite having almost nothing in common demographically.

* Tru TV is more or less obsessed with ''[[Operation Repo]]'' and many of its non-Operation Repo shows either seem to be "Operation Repo in a X" or "People Just As Trashy As The Operation Repo Cast Doing Similar Things".

** Then there is [[Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives]] --and anything featuring Guy Fieri for that matter, which can air anywhere between 5 to ''16'' times a day.

* TLC (and to a lesser extent, Discovery Health) shows nothing but ''A Baby Story'' and other birth-related shows on weekdays from about 9 AM-4 PM. The wierd thing is, they seem to only show old repeats, which means that some of these babies being born are in middle school now.

* 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...

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** Mostly, it airs first thing in the morning, but sometimes, another show airs. For instance, a [[Team Umizoomi]] special aired on Martin Luther King Day 2012, and the [[Rugrats]] special "Babies in Toyland" was the first thing aired on December 25, 2011 (aka Christmas).

*** It is no longer aired anymore as the first thing in the morning, [[Winx Club]] now airs first.

** Before ''[[SpongeBob]]'' really took off and practically ran with this trope, ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' was this for a while.

** ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' is the second most run cartoon on Nickelodeon, airing at least four times during the morning hours.