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Friday night death slot

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This article has OR materials. I don't know how "Friday night death slot" is encyclopedic, but the title is too biased ("death" sounds negative), the content may favor against Friday nights by using shows as examples of successes or failures (even if tone may be NPOV), it looked like an essay... or something personal, and cleaning up this article is too nauseating for me.

I don't know how notable it is, but even finding positive views about Friday night television won't help matters because... there's "death" in the title. I tried to request a rename, but there was no consensus to move. Imagine "Saturday night death slot"... *shudders*

I don't know why notable it is, but there were too many examples. "Success" and "failure" are too biased... I'm running out of words to explain this messy, biased article with messy title, even when media commonly calls it this way... Wait... this article should mention cable, as well. Could cable kill Friday night broadcast or its own Friday night? George Ho (talk) 09:05, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

• Keep. The verbatim phrase "Friday night death slot" has been in use since at least the 1980s. One of the earlier edits had at least eleven citations attesting to the legitimacy of the phrase. Friday night has been a well-documented graveyard slot in American television, where series have had lower ratings and a higher rate of cancellation than other nights (except Saturday, which no longer has original programming). So, why not a "Saturday night death slot?" Simply because most networks don't program that night anymore; it's not where legitimate series die, it's where already dead series are burned off. As for cable, other than children's channels, most of them do movies on Friday nights. It may need some rewriting, but that doesn't make it necessary to erase the entire article. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 12:39, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep Article provides good references for at least some of its content and appears to be about a notable concept in its field. Any OR problems can be solved by editing the article, rather than deleting. JulesH (talk) 14:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep Of course "death" has negative connotations. Being squeamish about the name isn't a reason to delete the article. It's a well-known concept, not something made up by an editor. Barsoomian (talk) 14:43, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

• Keep The word "death" does not make the article biased, as "Friday Night Death Slot" is the common term. Akihironihongo (talk) 15:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

• Keep. Article could use more sourcing but the term and the concept are widely covered topics about a phenomenon in American television that has been recognized since at least the late 1960s. The TV By the Numbers blog run by the Los Angeles Times offers plenty of statistics related to ratings and discussion of the Friday night issue. The use of the term "death" only makes the article biased if the creator of the article made up the term, but he/she didn't. 23skidoo (talk) 16:36, 5 February 2012 (UTC)