A particularly long program block, especially one that does not air on a regular schedule, is known as a marathon.

It is the only remaining original series continuously airing since the program block launched in 2001.

Each host appears in between five to eight program blocks during the week, which may be either live, prerecorded or a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

They choose films together with the main program manager, discuss them and put them within proper program blocks.

This allows program blocks outside of the currently active procedure/function to be called:

These program blocks were referred to as "beaver hours" by listeners and cultural critics, although never officially by radio stations themselves.

University Showcase - a program block of non-sports campus produced programs.

Each program block displays the program's icon, rating, price, title, publisher, and download count.

In 2008 the program was added to FamilyNet's Saturday morning children's program block.

Python uses whitespace to delimit program blocks, following the off-side rule.