<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2016 at 23:02, Mark Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It is deliberate. It is done to try and 'bridge' (i believe is the industry<br>
term) viewers from one show to the next. Ie you run the popular show 10min<br>
over, at which time you have missed the start of competing shows on other<br>
channels so viewers tend to just keep watching the follow-on show. Some<br>
Australian networks are much more aggressive in the practice than others.<br>
<br>
Further reading (see scheduling practices sections).<br>
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_programming" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Broadcast_programming</a><br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Running late I can understand, but why would they start 5-10 minutes early? Anyone who wants to watch and tunes in to see it already underway, will probably switch over to another channel instead. I just don't get it. This will surely lose them viewers rather than gain some? </div></div></div></div>