[1] For much of the 1960s and into the early 1990s, stripping for syndication was one of, if not the primary profit component of the studio production model in American television.
Only due to an unprecedented letter-writing campaign was the show renewed for its third season, and it did not begin to attain wider popularity until appearing in syndication for a number of years.
Michael Grade was responsible for introducing stripped and stranded schedules to the BBC's television service in the United Kingdom in his role as controller of BBC1: from February 18, 1985, onward,[citation needed] the weekday evening schedule has consisted almost entirely of half-hour or hour-long programs starting on the hour, or half-hour (the BBC channels never carried spot advertising).
Before this date, programs might start at almost any time and programs could have different times on consecutive weeks or even days, for example:[2] Compare with a 2007 schedule for the same channel: Stripping has also become an even more common practice on many British channels since the introduction of multi-channel cable and satellite television in the 1990s.
For example, if such a station gets the most recent season of a television series originating from the United States, the episodes will air in this way for two or three weeks, after which they are replaced by another show in the same timeslot.