There are also some re-runs of American programming.

Our children have been weaned on American programming.

There is a whole genre of American programming that cannot work overseas.

But otherwise very little American programming makes it onto China's main television channels.

As noted above, it now carries very little American programming apart from some syndicated daytime shows.

American programming is Chinese in its informality and casualness.

But European broadcasters love the cheap, steady source of American programming.

None of this means that American programming does not sell.

This directive is a welcome move given the growing prevalence of bought-in American programming on our television screens.

And while there are two Canadian satellite broadcasters, the appetite for American programming is overwhelming.