episodes – or every seven episodes if the program was also going to have a repeat broadcast every week. The producers would request a primary time slot (when they wanted their original episode to broadcast) and a secondary time slot (when the repeat of the episode would be broadcast). When the producers requested a broadcast time slot, they would also enter a request for studio time. Although many programs were 30 to 60 minutes in broadcast length, the studio time was allocated in three-hour blocks, to allow for the set-up and breakdown of the studio equipment and sets for each program. Initially, WFAC-TV did their best to accommodate the producers and keep all of the programs in the same time slots, but as new producers created more programs, the station management eventually initiated a "first come, first served” policy for broadcast time slots. This new policy caused producers to jockey for the most-wanted time slots. WFAC-TV would sometimes notify producers when it was necessary to renew their time slot requests in order to stay in the same broadcast day and time, though it was mainly the responsibility of each producer to keep track of their own time slot requests. Most of the producers of established programs would tend to respect each other's time slots, but the new producers would tend to consider the station's broadcast schedule as a "free-for-all”. Many times these new producers would produce five or six episodes of their programs and then stop production when they realized that they could not develop enough show content to continue producing the program. The situation was the same when it came to scheduling studio time. Most of the established production crews worked on multiple programs. These established crews were efficient in preparing a studio for production and they could also break-down the studio equipment and sets very quickly. The efficiency of these established programs and their crews allowed their producers to allocate unused portions of their studio time to fellow producers. Often, the producers and crews of some of the new programs would use the entire three hours of their scheduled studio time and still not have completed recording all of the segments for their 30 or 60-minute program, so the more established producers would allow the new producers to use some of their studio time to finish their programs. By mid-1999, The Lone Shark had been in the 9