access time : Spreety TV Online Glossary
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access time n. 1. The hour of local television
programming set aside in the US
within the four-hour prime time block created by the FCC’s 1972 prime-time
access rule. In most cases, access time is the hour between 7:00PM and 8:00PM
(in the US Central Time Zone this is the hour between 10:00PM and 11:00PM).
2. The time taken to retrieve data from a storage device. For example,
with a computer hard drive, the elapsed time from when the data request is made
until the data is available in RAM. Compare latency; round-trip time;
transit delay.
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