stripping
n.— «Stripping [specific programmes in the same slots across the week] is fine in the early evening, though we should stop transmitting Australian soaps then, and develop our own home-grown drama.» —“The shape of things to come at ITV” by Georgina Henry Guardian (U.K.) , 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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