Counterprogramming (television)
In
United States
The main events counterprogrammed in the United States are the
Super Bowl
The
The success of the special alarmed the
Under an unsaid
As to preempt the possibility that the 2022 Winter Olympics would counterprogram the game, CBS agreed to swap Super Bowl LVI—which, for the first time, was scheduled during an ongoing Olympic Games—to NBC for Super Bowl LV, so that both events were aired by the same network.[9][10] Furthermore, the structure of the rotation under the NFL's next round of television contracts (which expands it to all four major networks) gives NBC rights to the game in future Winter Olympic years.[11]
Academy Awards
In 2007, the
For a number of years, the championship game of the
The
The Alliance of American Football scheduled one of its contests opposite the 91st Academy Awards in 2019. The game drew 515,000 viewers, a bump of approximately 20% from the previous week's and following week's matchup on the same network, NFL Network.[19]
College football
The move is harder in the sport, especially with ESPN games competing against CBS games. Because of a CBS contract with the
Professional wrestling
In 1995, the
As the show only aired live on occasion at the time, WCW commentators occasionally discussed Raw spoilers on-air as a ploy to keep viewers from tuning away. This tactic infamously backfired during its January 4, 1999, episode, when an announcement that Mick Foley (who previously performed for WCW as Cactus Jack, and was performing in the WWF as Mankind) would win the WWF Championship had the opposite effect, causing Nitro to lose around 600,000 viewers to the final hour of Raw. The Nitro main event (featuring Hulk Hogan defeating Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship) was also marred by its unusual build-up and controversial finish—dubbed the "Fingerpoke of Doom". The episode's events were retrospectively considered to be one of several missteps that led towards WCW's eventual demise, and the sale of its assets to WWF.[21][23][24][22]
For eight weeks beginning January 4, 2010, competing promotion
A renewed wrestling rivalry between TNT and USA emerged in 2019, between WWE and the new promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW)—which has been seen as the first major promotion since WCW to compete financially with WWE.[27] TNT began to air AEW's first weekly program, Dynamite, on Wednesday nights beginning on October 2, 2019. On August 2, WWE announced that it would expand WWE NXT—a popular WWE Network program that focuses on a developmental brand of the same name—to a two-hour format on USA Network beginning the same night; the expansion soft-launched on September 18 with only the first hour airing on USA, to accommodate the final episodes of Suits' final season. The decision was seen as a move to counterprogram the upstart AEW, and also came alongside USA losing WWE's second flagship program SmackDown to Fox the same month.[28][29] Both AEW and NXT held two-week events on their July 1 and 8, 2020 episodes, with AEW holding Fyter Fest (which had originally been planned as a PPV), and NXT holding The Great American Bash (a former pay-per-view brand originating from WCW).[30] After regularly losing in the ratings to Dynamite, on April 13, 2021, WWE moved NXT to Tuesday nights.[31]
The October 15, 2021, episode of SmackDown (which was slated to feature the semi-finals of the
In October 2023, Dynamite—which had since moved to
As a lead-in to its pay-per-view Full Gear on November 18, 2023, AEW rescheduled its Saturday-night program Collision to Friday, November 17, with both it and Rampage serving as go-home shows, and airing against SmackDown.[40][41]
Other
When Seattle's KCPQ signed back on in November 4, 1980, it aired the film The Deer Hunter to counter the major networks' coverage of the 1980 presidential election.[42]
NBC, the long-time broadcaster of the
On the day of
During the
ABC had planned a summer-themed follow-up to The Bachelor Winter Games to air in August 2020 against the 2020 Summer Olympics, but production was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (which led said Games to be postponed to 2021).[52]
United Kingdom
In the
By contrast in 2005, attempts by ITV to counterprogram the BBC's Doctor Who with the poorly-received game show Celebrity Wrestling were unsuccessful, with ITV burning it off in a lower-profile Sunday timeslot after five episodes.[54]
See also
- List of Super Bowl halftime counterprogramming
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