History ScrewedByTheNetwork / LiveActionTV

* When TV Japan shut down in 2024 and created the streaming service Jme, instead of making a feed of NHk for North American viewers, they just used the same worldwide NHK World Premium feed other countries get. This meant the children's programs, with the exceptions of ''Series/{{Miitsuketa}}'' and ''Kitchen Sentai Cookrun'', all aired in the middle of the night rather than in the morning in most parts of the country. And on top of that, the service does not allow you to record the programs.

* When TV Japan shut down in 2024 and created the streaming service Jme, instead of making a feed of NHk for North American viewers, they just used the same worldwide NHK World Premium feed other countries get. This meant the children's programs, with the exceptions of ''Series/Miitsuketa'' and ''Kitchen Sentai Cookrun'', all aired in the middle of the night rather than in the morning in most parts of the country. And on top of that, the service does not allow you to record the programs.

* For [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks some reason]], E! decided to [[{{Retool}} convert]] its main news show, ''E! News'' from a traditional UsefulNotes/LosAngeles-based evening entertainment newscast to a morning show at the start of 2020, where E! had absolutely no presence over the years outside of sitcom [[{{Rerun}} reruns]] and [[{{Infomercial}} infomercials]]. It moved to [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York]] with completely [[ReplacementScrappy new hosts]] (and a [[HorribleHousing cramped studio]] whose previous purpose was a place to put MSNBC [[TalkingHeads talking heads]] behind a New York background), and was now inexplicably [[DuelingWorks forced to compete]] with the 20+ other New York morning and talk shows for celebrity appearances, and what celebrities they could get were [[CListFodder rejects]] from in-house competitor (literally several floors down) ''Series/{{Today}}''. The low-viewed [[GoneHorriblyWrong experiment]] would have just been [[AllForNothing futile in the end]], but [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] [[RealLifeWritesThePlot shut down]] the show in March 2020 [[FranchiseKiller permanently]] after [[ShortRunners only two months]] in New York, along with E!'s entire 2020 live programming strategy (which also did in a reboot of ''Series/TheSoup''), likely putting the entire network [[NetworkDecay in danger]] of [[NetworkDeath shutting down]] after the [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Kardashians]] move to Creator/{{Hulu}}. The only live hosted programming [[LastOfHisKind left]] on the network (''Daily Pop'' & ''Nightly Pop'') is likely only on the air due to [[DealWithTheDevil long-term deals]] and those hosts' willingness to do the shows from home. The news operation [[AndTheAdventureContinues does continue]] [[EverythingIsOnline online]], but it has [[TheBandMinusTheFace no public face]] or show on E! to drive viewership.

* ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'': The show's 2020 reunion special, which also doubled as an upfront presentation for Creator/NBCUniversal as a whole, saw it's initial NBC broadcast preempted by well over half of the network's affiliates, including (and notably) many affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media Group, Tegna, Gray Television, Hearst Television and Graham Media Group (as mentioned below), largely as these stations viewed the special as a glorified 60-minute commercial for Creator/{{Peacock}}, and also the fact that the special itself would be airing commercial-free, a fact that did not sit well with these stations, whose advertising revenues had been harshly impacted by the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19 Pandemic]].

** Viacom's full ownership in the network and the sale of Chris-Craft owned UPN stations to Fox resulted in WPSG in UsefulNotes/Philadelphia and KBHK-TV in UsefulNotes/San Francisco becoming UPN's de facto flagship stations (taking the distinction away from WWOR-TV in UsefulNotes/New York City and KCOP-TV in UsefulNotes/Los Angeles).