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Interstitial television programs


  • Short-form television programs shown between full-length programs.

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    • Interstitial television programs

  • Variants

    • Wraparound television programs

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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: 2013601143: Friends for change games. Week 4, 2011-07-17.
    • found: Webster's New World dictionary of media and communications, c1996(interstitial programming; the placement of short programs between full-length programs. For example, Home Box Office (HBO) and other movie channels schedule programs of about 2 to 25 minutes between the full-length movies)
    • found: Answers.com WWW site, viewed February 21, 2013(Interstitial program; short television programming which is often shown between movies or other events)
    • found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed February 21, 2013(interstitial program; in television programming an interstitial program, or wraparound program or wraparound segment, refers to a short program which is often shown between movies or other events, e.g. a cast interview(s) after movies on premium channels. The term can also refer to a narrative bridge between segments within a program, such as Leopold Stokowski's segments in the Disney film Disney's Fantasia or the Simpson family's interludes between segments during their annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials)
    • notfound: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988

  • General Notes

    • Short-form television programs shown between full-length programs.

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  • Change Notes

    • 2013-02-21: new
    • 2016-02-05: revised

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