Talk:Strip programming

If we ever get an article on the emerging process of 'bombs' (airing a normally weekly program for five days in a row to boost ratings and/or show an important plotline in quick succession, something Cartoon Network has been doing lately), it should link here in the 'see also' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.206.153 (talk) 05:08, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Typical written-by-accumulation article with no thesis
This is a great example of a Wikipedia page that consists of little bits added over years by different people and has no actual unity, thus failing to give the reader any easy definition of the topic. You can read this page 5 times and still have no clue what "strip programming" is. Part of that is due to the needless tangents the article goes on such as TWO! different entire evening schedules from the BBC, but mostly it's because there are multiple suggested definitions of "strip programming" in a 1128-word article:


 * Is strip programming when multiple programs of the same "style" share a timeslot? The first paragraph suggests it is.
 * Is strip programming something done so that multiple programs of the same "demographic" share a timeslot, in order to make targeted advertising easier? The second paragraph says it is, but half the article is about scheduling on the BBC, a network that does not show advertisements, so this is confusing and contradictory.
 * Is strip programming a description for "any program that airs on multiple consecutive days during the calendar week"? The third paragraph says so.
 * Does it only refer to "television programs that were originally broadcast on a weekly basis during their original run?" The same paragraph says so.
 * But is it somehow also a description for "shows in prime time that run daily?" Still in paragraph 3 we are now on our third definition within the paragraph and fifth within the article as to what the article is discussing.
 * Is strip programming just another term for syndication of a network series? A reader relying on paragraph 4 would likely conclude that it is.
 * Is strip programming when shows start on the even half-hour instead of at other times? That's the only plausible interpretation of paragraph 5 and the accompanying charts.
 * Whatever strip programming is, did it somehow become "more common on British channels" after multiple channels were introduced? How could it have been any less or more common on channels that did not exist before? Paragraph 6 challenges you to deduce this.

In 8 paragraphs we have 8 possible interpretations of "strip programming," none of which make perfect sense, are cited to anything, or make it clear who uses this term or why. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 18:04, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't have a very worldwide understanding of strip programming, but while researching another Wiki article, I found a historical article in the Sydney Morning Herald which suggests, at least in the Australian TV industry, that strip programming means scheduling episodes of the same show in the same timeslot every Monday through Friday. This matches with my understanding of what stripped programming is being a TV viewer (sometimes more recently it is Monday to Thursday). Perhaps we can find more sources explaining the term, especially comparing different worldwide definitions if they exist to try and nail down a more coherent article? Reader781 (talk) 23:06, 9 October 2021 (UTC)