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CBS Block Party
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<p><i>CBS Block Party</i> (referred to on-air as the <i>CBS Friday Night Block Party</i>) was a programming block that aired on the <a href="/facts/CBS/BhMsVoej">CBS</a> television network during the <a href="/facts/1997%25E2%2580%259398_United_States_network_television_schedule/XSCMNx8A">1997–1998 television season</a>. The block was similar to, and was intended as <a href="/facts/Counterprogramming_(television)/bq5PqJe3">direct competition</a> to, <a href="/facts/American_Broadcasting_Company/WGxg4vRX">ABC</a>'s <a href="/facts/TGIF_(ABC)/xjbjsoFA">TGIF</a> lineup and aired on Friday nights from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET, and included two former stalwarts of the TGIF lineup. Although the block was canceled after one year, the resulting audience fracture caused what turned out to be irreparable harm to the previously dominant TGIF, eventually clearing the way for CBS to dominate the Friday night lineup beginning in the next decade. </p>