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Whassit mean?

It means that if a sports event or the like is going overtime, the show immediately afterwards will either start late or already be in progress.

When they pull a program in order to show another, limited-time-only TV bit. Example is Firefly getting preempted to show sports.

It's when you make a change in the schedule. For example, if the president makes an emergency speech, the main networks will pre-empt their normal programming in favor of that, so people can see it.

Well, looks like I was about thirty nanoseconds too slow.

Same here.

Man, that's a lot of simultaneous posting!

Thank you one and all (three).

It can actually do both, depending on how much time is spent on the previous program.

Which means the pre-empted show will either

1. Start late
2. Start at whatever point it should be at if it started playing at the correct time
3. Not be shown

No offense to StarshipTitanic, but I honestly can't believe somebody actually needed to ask that question.

Might whether a show starts late or doesn't play at all depend on how much content will be pre-empted? For example, IIRC, networks simply don't play many programs when their timeslot is taken up by Olympic events.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Might whether a show starts late or doesn't play at all depend on how much content will be pre-empted? For example, IIRC, networks simply don't play many programs when their timeslot is taken up by Olympic events.

Uh, I just said that.