Stripping is an industry term used to refer to the practice of running a syndicated television series every day of the week. It is commonly restricted to describing the airing of shows which were weekly in their first run; The West Wing could be stripped but not Jeopardy!, as the latter is intended to be run daily. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... The West Wing is a popular and widely acclaimed American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin and produced and co-written by John Wells. ... Jeopardy! is a popular international television quiz game show, originally devised by Merv Griffin, who also created Wheel of Fortune. ...

Michael Grade was responsible for introducing stripped and stranded schedules to BBC television in his role as controller of BBC One: from 18 February 1985 the schedule has comprised entirely of half-hour or one hour programmes starting on the hour, or half hour (the BBC channels do not carry spot advertising). For example, Grade's new schedule provided at 19:00 the Wogan chat show thrice weekly and two helpings of EastEnders and fixed the national news at 18:00 and 21:00, regional news at 18:30 Michael Ian Grade CBE (born March 8, 1943) is a British businessman and a distinguished figure in the field of broadcasting. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... BBC One (styled BBC1 until 1997) is the most watched domestic channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wogan was a chat show on British television, hosted by Terry Wogan. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[3] and continuing to date. ...

Before this date programmes could start at almost any time and programs could have different times on consecutive weeks or even days, for example:

17:40 60 Minutes (17:52 regional news, 18:15 national magazine)
18:40 Harty
19:05 Cliff!
20:05 Cockles
21:00 News
21:25 Whicker’s World
22:30 Sportsnight.^[1]

Compare with a 2007 schedule for the same channel:

18:00 BBC News and Weather
18:30 Regional News Program
19:00 Watchdog
19:30 EastEnders
20:00 Holby City
21:00 Judge John Deed
22:00 BBC News
22:35 Comedy Drama

Stripping has also become an even more common practice on many British channels since the introduction of multi-channel cable and satellite in the 1990s. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... Artists impression of a Boeing 601 satellite, as configured for digital television transmission by SES Astra Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ...