Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.
The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 (Central and Mountain Time) or 20:00 to 23:00 (Eastern and Pacific Time) (7 p.m. to 10 p.m. or 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.).
As a jocular reference, the phrase “not ready for prime time” has come to mean “not quite perfected”.
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... In a great part of Latin American countries, prime time is considered to be from 600 or 700 p.m ... The time slot is usually used for news, telenovelas and TV series, and special time slots are used for reality shows, with great popularity, especially in Mexico and Brazil ... In Brazil, it's called horário nobre (“noble time”), which is the time the 3 most famous telenovelas in the country are shown each weekday and on Saturdays ...
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... so that NBC and its competitors added more movie series to the prime time schedule ... CBS was leading the other networks in the ratings at that time and did not immediately add a prime time movie series ... networks added weeknight movies to the schedule and by 1968, there was a prime time network movie for every night of the week The ABC Sunday Night Movie ...
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