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->''"What I thought was a game played in high school, only to discover it's [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine's]] summer programming."''

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->''"What I thought was a game played in high primary school, only to discover it's [[Creator/NineNetwork Channel Nine's]] summer programming."''
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UsefulNotes/ProfessionalWrestling has been a frequent victim of this, the first few years of ''Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' saw annual preemptions for the Westminster Dog Show and the U.S. Open (tennis, not golf) for a week in June and two weeks around Labor Day, respectively. ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' would get pushed back to 11 pm for NBA playoff games[[note]]Knowing these shows were a lost cause anyway ratings-wise, a favorite backstage politics trick of Wrestling/HulkHogan would be to go on vacation or somehow otherwise get himself written off TV towards the beginning of April, then come back when the playoffs were over and take credit for the ratings going up[[/note]], and even to this day Fox occasionally kicks ''Wrestling/SmackDownLive'' over to [=FS1=] in favor of college football or soccer. ''Wrestling/{{AEW}} Dynamite'' actually lost their time slot on Creator/{{TNT}} when Warner Brothers Discovery bought the rights to show NHL games, though they simply moved across the hall to Creator/{{TBS}} with the same 8 pm start time on Wednesday nights.

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UsefulNotes/ProfessionalWrestling MediaNotes/ProfessionalWrestling has been a frequent victim of this, the first few years of ''Wrestling/MondayNightRaw'' saw annual preemptions for the Westminster Dog Show and the U.S. Open (tennis, not golf) for a week in June and two weeks around Labor Day, respectively. ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' would get pushed back to 11 pm for NBA playoff games[[note]]Knowing these shows were a lost cause anyway ratings-wise, a favorite backstage politics trick of Wrestling/HulkHogan would be to go on vacation or somehow otherwise get himself written off TV towards the beginning of April, then come back when the playoffs were over and take credit for the ratings going up[[/note]], and even to this day Fox occasionally kicks ''Wrestling/SmackDownLive'' over to [=FS1=] in favor of college football or soccer. ''Wrestling/{{AEW}} Dynamite'' actually lost their time slot on Creator/{{TNT}} when Warner Brothers Discovery bought the rights to show NHL games, though they simply moved across the hall to Creator/{{TBS}} with the same 8 pm start time on Wednesday nights.

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