The weekly political magazine show from Hearst hosted by Soledad O’Brien adds affiliates in New York, San Francisco and Hartford, Conn., boosting its performance in key demos. In the fall it expands into Nashville.
The award-winning true crime series has been sold in more than 80% of the U.S. Double runs of Dateline will also be offered to stations to air as a two-hour true crime block.
The Wendy Williams Show launched with a trial run in 2008 and quickly became a nationally syndicated hit. Williams credits her appeal, particularly among women in her audience, to her “transparency.” Williams’ opinions are in demand. Her television contract was recently renewed through 2022, she’s a best-selling author and has an app about her life off-camera in the works.
The syndicated entertainment news and talk variety strip will fade to black on April 28 after two seasons.
The syndicated Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen reports record digital traffic in March. The show, produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, said it […]
The new syndicated show from the New York Post and Endemol Shine North America has now been sold by Twentieth Television in 185 markets for a fall premiere.
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Production is set to begin Tuesday on the fifth season of Orion Television’s Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court in Atlanta, Ga. The two-time Emmy-nominated courtroom series is syndicated in 90% of the country, […]
WSB Adds ‘Right This Minute’ To Daytime In Fall
Cox Media Group’s ABC affiliate WSB Atlanta (DMA 10) is moving the syndicated viral video show Right This Minute to its daytime lineup beginning this fall. Right This Minute joins […]
The NAB Show Super Session, “The Real Story: A Take on Syndicated Entertainment News,” will take place on April 24. Cicha and Levin will discuss the origin of the Fox TV/TMZ partnership and TMZ’s evolution from a web brand into a leading syndicated television entertainment news property, as well as Fox’s testing strategy for content.
Harry Connick Jr. is staying put in daytime. NBCUniversal Domestic TV and Fox Television Stations have renewed the syndicated daytime strip Harry for a second season this fall.
Sources say Sinclair and Tribune have agreed to carry the show from Dr. Phil McGraw and his son Jay, first announced in June 2015, giving it the clearances it needs to get off the ground this fall.
Since Michael Strahan bailed on the program on May 13, 2016, we’re officially past 10 months now — and currently at 66 different guest co-hosts. Why the big delay?
The freshman syndicated talk show has been canceled by Tegna “due to the current economics of daytime TV,” and will be replaced by a renamed BOLD, a half-hour that will feature several live feeds a day to affiliates in all four U.S. time zones.
The People’s Court, on which Wapner decided real small-claims from 1981 to 1993, was one of the granddaddies of the syndicated reality shows of today. His affable, no-nonsense approach attracted many fans, putting The People’s Court in the top five in syndication at its peak.
In addition to a $47 million CBS salary, Sheindlin also negotiated rights to her repeats, which she’s quietly pitching to potential outlets.
Tegna Readies Home-Grown Shows For Fall
Sister Circle, a panel talk show featuring black women, and Sing Like a Star, a weekly talent show, underscore the station group’s commitment to developing its own programming. “We have to take control of our own destiny a little more,” says Tegna programming chief Bob Sullivan.
CBS Television Distribution’s entertainment magazine will call it quits after the end of its 13th season.
The 10th season of Sewee Entertainment’s quarterly syndicated documentary series Andrew Young Presents begins with “Think Young” — a look back that actually is a look forward. Included is rare […]
The new Twentieth Television daily gossip/entertainment news strip is now cleared in nine of the top 10 U.S. markets.
NATPE Failed To Revive Sleepy Syndie Biz
In years past, you could get a pretty good idea of what new syndicated offerings will be airing this fall and which won’t at NATPE and the days immediately following. Not this year. Eleven days after the show ended, there is still no word on clearances for the handful of new shows and a couple of year-old ones on the bubble.
Successful broadcast procedurals used to be a gold mine for studios that would sell them for top dollar in cable syndication and internationally. While the appetite overseas for high-end U.S. close-ended dramas remains healthy, that is no longer the case among domestic cable networks. With ratings for off-network procedurals not as strong as they used to be — leading to major financial losses by cable networks on existing syndication deals — interest in broadcast dramas has been on a decline.
The three new trophies make Ellen DeGeneres the winningest entertainer in the show’s history.
Testing, Ownership Key To Better Syndication
A NATPE panel of station and syndication execs says that while time slots are tight with so many shows being renewed, there’s a need to extensively test new offerings before rolling them out. In addition, new shows have a better chance to succeed if station groups have an ownership stake in them.
Tegna Looking To Grow Its Own Syndie Hits
Tegna Media President Dave Lougee challenged his stations to come up with new ideas for first-run shows that it could take group-wide — and possibly nationally. That yielded five pilots and, of those, two from WXIA Atlanta and WWL New Orleans were deemed worthy to produce locally.
Tegna’s ‘Bold’ New Syndie Is Just That
The new, live daily syndicated show the station group is shopping at NATPE this week is being offered on a cash-and-barter basis. The show will air live whenever a station airs it. That means Bold really has to be ongoing for about 12 or more hours a day.
Byron Allen’s Syndie Target: Prime Access
Funny You Should Ask is a 12-camera combination game-and-entertainment strip shot in front of an audience. It’s being sold as an alternative to the long-running quiz shows and entertainment news magazines that have been longtime staples of prime access.
Scripps Pitching Kellie Pickler Talk Show
The station group is drumming up interest for hour-long strip Ben & Kellie, which would feature country artist Pickler and Ben Aaron, a feature reporter on NBC O&O WNBC New York.
Steady As It Goes For Paul Franklin And CTD
In his first NATPE as president of CBS Television Distribution, Paul Franklin is overseeing a list of some of the longest-running shows in television syndication. His challenge is to hold the line or even grow the license fees for CTD’s stalwart syndication properties in an era when there’s more pressure than ever from stations and station groups to drive down fees.
New Palin Show Finishes Last In Katz Survey
Katz tested “awareness and interest” among 404 adults, 18 or older, in eight first-run shows on sale at NATPE. The most interest (69%) was shown in Bellum’s Mysteries of the Unexplained, while courtroom Palin Rules appealed to only 21%.
The two are selling for fall a live, half-hour show based on trending social media stories. The show is designed to exploit research that says that two-thirds of daytime TV viewers are also interacting with social media.
ABC’s Friday comedy Last Man Standing was not a hot off-network commodity when Twentieth Television first took it syndication buyers at NATPE 2014. For the week of Dec.5, Last Man Standing was No.4 among all 19 comedies airing in broadcast syndication. It’s hard to pinpoint one reason behind the show’s unexpected strong syndication run. But one may be Tim Allen — star-driven sitcoms have always been a major draw for stations looking for off-network product.
The annual event is set to celebrate its 25th anniversary on Jan. 29. In addition, Jeff Johnson will oversee event relations and Bounce TV community affairs.
Sources say the show that was being shopped by Warner Bros. ran up against a shortage of eligible time slots on stations in major markets next fall. It could be revived later, they add.
The daily news strip had a four-week summer test. It features the “top 30 stories of the day” and is distributed by Twentieth Television.
To celebrate the launch of Bounce TV’s new subscription-video-on-demand service Brown Sugar and give viewers a taste of the new service, Bounce TV will present a 14-hour, seven-movie marathon of […]
Raycom Sports today unveiled a new television show to coincide with the 2016 Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship. The hour-long special, Forging History: The Road to an ACC Championship, will show what […]
The Debmar-Mercury syndicated strip hosted by Craig Ferguson will not be back for a fourth season.
Live with Kelly has had 50 different guest co-hosts across 109 episodes since Michael Strahan bailed on Kelly Ripa — here’s how their syndicated ratings have stacked up
