lead-ins for the final episodes of Suits). The decision was seen as a move to counterprogram the upstart AEW, and also came alongside USA losing WWE's second flagship program SmackDown to Fox the same month. Both AEW and NXT held two-week events on their July 1 and 8, 2020 episodes, with AEW holding Fyter Fest (which had originally been planned as a PPV), and NXT holding The Great American Bash (a former pay-per-view brand originating from WCW). After regularly losing in the ratings to Dynamite, on April 13, 2021, WWE moved NXT to Tuesday nights. The October 15, 2021, episode of SmackDown (which was slated to feature the semi-finals of the King of the Ring and Queen's Crown tournaments) was pre-empted to FS1 due to Fox coverage of the 2021 American League Championship Series. AEW's second weekly show on TNT, Rampage (which was scheduled for a live episode with matches featuring Chris Jericho, CM Punk, and Junior dos Santos among others), is usually scheduled to air at 10:00 p.m. ET as to not conflict with the two-hour SmackDown; WWE announced that SmackDown would be extended with an extra, commercial-free half hour, featuring a match between Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks—countering the first half-hour of Rampage. In response, AEW announced that it would stream a pre-show on YouTube prior to Rampage with a match between Bryan Danielson and Minoru Suzuki. After WWE announced that an encore presentation of SmackDown would immediately follow the live airing, AEW then announced that its opening match between CM Punk and Matt Sydal would also air commercial-free. In key demographic viewership, Rampage drew 328,000 viewers, beating the extension of SmackDown by 43,000. Other When KCPQ signed back on in November 1980, it aired, mostly uncut, the film The Deer Hunter to counter the major networks, who were telecasting the 1980 presidential election results. NBC, the long-time broadcaster of the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks in New York City, has historically aired an encore presentation of the special at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, immediately following its live broadcast. The Boston Pops Orchestra's own concert and fireworks special on CBS aired live at the same time as the NBC encore. While NBC claimed that this was for budgetary reasons, Boston Pops executive producer David G. Mugar believed that NBC had done so to intentionally pull viewers away from the Boston Pops. After ratings fell by 1 million viewers for