timeslot
Speech parts
1. timeslot - Noun
2. timeslot - Verb
Meaning
timeslot (plural timeslots)
A conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.
Prime-time television has two- to four-hour-long timeslots.
timeslot (third-person singular simple present timeslots, present participle timeslotting, simple past and past participle timeslotted)
(transitive) To allocate to one or more timeslots.
Synonyms
Examples
I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.
After four years on Tuesday, NBC decided to move The A-Team to a new timeslot on Friday for what would be its final season.
All NBC late night programming would be preempted by the 2010 Winter Olympics between February 15 and 26. This would move The Tonight Show to 12:05 a.m., a post-midnight timeslot for the first time in its history.
After Megyn Kelly's departure in 2017, MacCallum was named host of "The First 100 Days," a program created to replace "Tucker Carlson Tonight" when it moved into Kelly's timeslot.
An alarm signal may also be transmitted using timeslot TS0.
A network may even prefer to return a timeslot to its local stations to keeping a soap opera with disappointing ratings on the air, as was the case with Sunset Beach and Port Charles.