stripping n. a programming technique of broadcasting the same television show, or type of show, in the same time slot on successive nights. Editorial Note: The etymological information in the 2002 citation has not been verified. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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If this is a “US method”, as the last quote has it, why are all the cites from UK sources?
Good question. That’s why I didn’t put a country-category label on it. I didn’t have access to a couple of databases when I put this entry together, so I’ll re-run the searches this weekend to see if we can nail it down.