And there are strict quotas on imported shows--during prime-time hours only 15% of programming can be imported.
While NBC trails its competitors in the prime-time hours, "Today" has ranked No. 1 in mornings each week for more than 15 consecutive years.
The justices said in that free-speech dispute that the Federal Communications Commission imposed unfair punishment for isolated profanity and sexual content during evening "prime time" hours.
During the last summer games, NBC devoted a hefty slice of their 272 prime-time hours to the sport, pumping up the drama of Michael Phelps last games, and so on.
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LDP's tough secretary-general, reminded Mr Mori that he was prime minister 24 hours a day and whenever he opened his mouth he did so as the leader of the country.
The nearly inevitable wait for dinner (two or three hours at prime time, unless you e-mail ahead for a reservation) is made more pleasant by a free kegger.
Among Zucker's cost-saving proposals: cutting back on prime-time programming hours.
Three hours of prime television real estate reaching a global audience of up to a billion people, with guaranteed international press coverage and an Oscar-wining director in charge to boot is worth a lot.
It comes after prime minister Gordon Brown made GP hours one of his priorities when he took power.
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Alas, an immediate and overwhelmingly negative reaction forced the prime minister to backtrack just 48 hours later.
And the cheer Cameron got at Prime Minister's Questions four hours later ensured this was not the anti-climax some predicted.
The Transformer Prime lasted just shy of seven hours, compared with slightly more than 10 hours for the iPad 2, a big difference.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported Monday hours after returning to his home country from seven years in exile, vowing to campaign against the military ruler.
The Spaniard returned to Helsinki in the small hours all smiles, to be followed a few hours later by the Turkish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, who came as a summit guest.
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"Yasser Arafat has not passed the test of 48 hours of total calm that the prime minister set last Sunday, " said an Israeli official quoted by the French news agency AFP.
The fact that she had previously spoken to Gordon Brown about standing down was leaked and confirmed in a hotel bar in the early hours of the morning by the prime minister's spokesperson.
Some 24 hours of intermittent rain forced Monday's prime-time start -- the first since the inaugural race in 1959.
On Monday, it tweeted the results of men's gymnastics team final and the women's 100m backstroke, hours before those events were scheduled to air in prime time.
Within hours, as casualties streamed into hospitals, the deputy prime minister, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former general and prime minister who had recently joined the government to mediate with the PAD, resigned to take responsibility for the disorder.
Movie pirating might not yet be ready for prime time -- even over the fastest connection, it typically takes hours to download a full-length film.
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The political developments came hours after dramatic new videotape of the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto emerged, showing her slumping just after gunshots ring out.
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Dr Mogi's job was to advise the prime minister on whether or not to declare a national emergency in the hours before a major earthquake was due to hit Tokyo, something he felt he could not possibly do.
The Supreme Court order says the prime minister and the others should be arrested and produced before court within 24 hours.
Chaos erupted at the hospital when former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived to pay his respects to Bhutto less than three hours after her death.
Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will remain in the hospital at least "another 36 hours, " his doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, said Monday, following an attack that broke his teeth and fractured his nose.
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The prime minister gave an indication of his determination during his monthly press conference a few hours before meeting his backbenchers.
Characteristically, the prime minister insisted on delivering a typically robust response in her keynote conference speech a few hours later.
Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo, concentrating on forming his new cabinet, was only informed a few hours after the accident began.
He added that the publication of the statements, just hours before MPs set off for their 11-week summer break, means the prime minister has "violated his own ministerial code of conduct 10 times in one day".
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