Sewee Entertainment has cleared WXYZ Detroit’s annual summer automotive event The Woodward Dream Cruise in more than 80% of U.S. TV households for a third consecutive year. Key broadcasters clearing […]
Former NBC News correspondent Chris Hansen, best known for his “To Catch a Predator” investigative segments, will be the new host of the nationally syndicated news magazine Crime Watch Daily.
Matter of Fact With Soledad O’Brien, a re-launch of Hearst’s one-season-old syndicated Sunday politics show, marks O’Brien’s next chapter after the shuttering of Al Jazeera America, where she had been a special correspondent after leaving CNN in 2013. O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media, also will be producing specials for Hearst.
Entertainment Tonight executive producer Brad Bessey is departing the show ahead of its 36th season. Bessey joined ET in April 2014. Sources say Bessey’s contract was not renewed for the upcoming season, which kicks off in September. Insiders say the split was amicable.
Tribune Broadcasting’s Eye Opener morning news show has named Chris Myers executive producer. Myers, who joined Tribune Broadcasting this week, has been manager of digital creative content for ABC Television Group, […]
KMGH Adds Investigative Reporter Jace Larson
Jace Larson is the new investigative reporter for Scripps-owned ABC affiliate KMGH Denver (DMA 17). The national award-winning journalist will join the station’s Denver7 Investigators team and will also work […]
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Connick: No Games On His New Talk Show
Harry Connick Jr.’s new NBCUniversal-produced daytime show will feature many of the trappings of a traditional talker — a live band, celebrity interviews. But what’s also notable is what it won’t have. “We’re not going to play games,” Connick said of his guests Wednesday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour. “I’m not going to put them in dunk tanks.”
The sale brings clearances of the show to 71% of the country, including 27 of the top 30 markets.
The Robert Irvine Show is being produced and distributed by Tribune Studios. It’s been cleared to run in afternoons five days a week on all of the affiliates of The CW.
Veteran sales exec Ken Lawson will succeed Paul Franklin in overseeing all of Twentieth Television’s broadcast syndication sales as senior vice president and general sales manager.
The upcoming syndicated offering will be hosted by John Fugelsang and contributing editors will include Mario Cantone, Bevy Smith, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Carlos Greer. The show from Endemol Shine North America begins a three-week test on Fox stations in seven cities on July 18.
The 28-year veteran of Twentieth Television will oversee all of CBS Television Distribution’s domestic syndicated portfolio. His predecessor, Armando Nuñez, now assumes responsibility for all international sales as president-CEO of CBS Studios International.
E.W. Scripps named a new executive producer for its pop-culture news series The List. The new hire is Tracy Mazeur, who will begin her new job July 5. She comes from […]
There are rumblings that the actress has been discussing a talk show development deal with Warner Bros. and Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production banner.
Connick Wows Tough Crowd At Station Summit
Tribune Studios and Irwin Entertainment to produce the new first-run weekday syndicated conflict resolution talk strip.
The entertainment magazines syndicated by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will continue until the 2019-20 season.
The cash-and-barter deal calls for The Goldbergs to be cleared on Tribune stations in 18 markets covering 37% of U.S. TV households, beginning in fall 2017.
Inside Fox TV Stations’ Summer Of Testing
The station group is prepping for the rollout of five trial runs this month and next. The shows vary greatly — from locally produced fare to two shows being eyed for possible national syndication. Why all the action? According to Frank Cicha, SVP of programming (above): “There’s a lot of shelf space. I think it would be erroneous for us to sit back and think we can wait for syndication to save us.”
Distributor Sony Pictures Television announced this morning that Fox Television Stations have agreed to continue airing the syndicated health-and-fitness talk show through the 2018-19 season, which would be its 10th.
Tamar Braxton has a deal for a new talk show just days after exiting as a co-host of “The Real.” Comedian and talk show host Steve Harvey announced during an […]
The new gossip show will air on Fox’s WNYW New York, KTTV Los Angeles, WTXF Philadelphia, KDFW Dallas, WAGA Atlanta, WJBK Detroit and WTVT Tampa, Fla., beginning July 18.
So-Me, a panel show highlighting “trending news topics,” will run for four weeks starting July 11 on WNYW and WWOR New York, KTTV and KCOP Los Angeles, WDCA Washington, KTVU San Francisco, KSAZ Phoenix and KMSP Minneapolis.
The five-day-a-week, one-hour strip hosted by Jason Matheson, entertainment news anchor at Fox-owned KMSP Minneapolis, will get a four-week tryout on KTTV Los Angeles, KDFW Dallas and KSAZ Phoenix.
Entertainment Studios has appointed John Hess vice president of Midwest sales, effective immediately. Hess will be based out of the Entertainment Studios offices in Chicago. In his new position, Hess […]
With the Fox Television Stations as its anchor, the syndicated millennials-focused news show will also air on some Media General and Sinclair stations for four weeks.
Rob Lowe Reportedly In Talks To Join ‘Live’
ABC is interested in Rob Lowe as Kelly Ripa’s Live co-host, a source tells ET. The network has been talking to Lowe’s reps again, the source says, having chatted with the actor about the highly coveted gig back in 2012, when ABC was looking for Regis Philbin’s replacement. Lowe, 52, had impressed viewers at the time when he guest-hosted for two days. But the job, of course, ended up going to Michael Strahan.
The singer and reality TV personality has been a regular on the Telepictures Productions syndicated roundtable show since its debut in 2013.
Disney/ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? will move production from Stamford, Conn., to Las Vegas for next season, the company announced today. The syndicated daytime game show — distributed by […]
Strahan was initially supposed to work through the summer, but his departure was moved up. The former football star began on Live with Kelly & Michael in 2012, replacing Regis Philbin.
Kelly Ripa would like Anderson Cooper to replace Michael Strahan, but her bosses at ABC aren’t ready to go there yet. The two sides are jockeying for control over the successor to Strahan, the former NFL who is leaving Friday for a new role at Good Morning America.
The half-hour syndicated strip based on the New York Post’s long-running gossip feature will be produced by Endemol Shine North America. It will get a three-week run beginning July 18.
The Tegna-produced talk show, set to debut on Sept. 12, is now slotted in 50 markets on stations owned by Scripps, Cox and others in addition to Tegna outlets.
The former showrunner of The Insider takes over the reins of the Twentieth Television court strip.
