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prime time - (From TV programming) Normal high-usage hours on a time-sharing system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for night mode hacking. The rise of the personal workstation has rendered this term, along with time-sharing itself, almost obsolete. The hackish tendency to late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit.


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Just 10 months after promising to stick with an ``A-level product,'' NBC Universal made a U-turn Thursday by announcing plans to replace its first hour of prime-time programming with game shows and reality TV.
REALITY, GAME SHOWS AT 8 P.M. SIGNS THAT NETWORK'S GIVEN UP? by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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ABC, which started the landmark prime-time National Football League game series in 1970, has decided it can't afford to pay the bills any longer with simple advertising dollars and will hand over the package to corporate partner ESPN, also owned by Disney, with an eight-year deal, it was announced Monday.
'MONDAY NIGHT' CHANGES PLAYBOOK by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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