Mark Binda is named senior director of programming for the Scripps television station group, charged with working with station managers to develop original programming and explore syndication deals.
The show from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in its second season is up 14% percent nationally in its primary demo, women 25-54, compared to last season.
While much has been made of millennials leaving traditional linear TV programming, some platforms have done better than others in retaining those young viewers — specifically syndicated TV shows. Looking at September — the start of the TV season — syndication TV programming pulled in a Nielsen average 0.4 rating among 18-34 viewers — the same rating as September 2014. By way of comparison, other traditional linear TV platforms have had declines.
Tyra Banks and Chrissy Teigen’s new syndicated show, FABLife, has turned to the drab life for the supermodels thanks to sinking ratings since its debut, TV insiders say.
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Debmar-Mercury exec Mort Marcus (c) says Wendy Williams (l) has it, but Meredith Vieira doesn’t. Marcus and Debmar-Mercury Co-President Ira Bernstein also offered opinions on the outlook for broadcast TV, the impact of station group consolidation on syndication and more.
Phil McGraw signs a new deal with CBS that will extend his top-rated syndicated talker through 2020.
NBCUniversal’s first-run daytime entertainment show, Harry, is set to debut in national syndication in fall 2016. The comedy duo, the Stangel Brothers, to serve as executive producers.
Telco Productions Inc. is introducing Military Makeover for fall 2016. The syndicated weekly half-hour series gives returning veterans a complete home makeover. Hosted by retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee […]
Syndicators Busy With Shows For Next Fall
Among the new offerings for first-run syndication in the works or being pitched for 2016-17 is Ice & Coco (above), which got a three-week test this summer on Fox-owned stations in eight markets. Another show that just finished a test is Debmar-Mercury’s The T.D. Jakes Show. More projects on the drawing board include a talker with Harry Connick Jr. from NBCU, Daily Mail TV from CBS, and the possible return of two former TV judges, Glenda Hatchett and Joe Brown. There are also two game shows being discussed: Sony’s Chain Reaction and a daily version of Scientific Games’ Monopoly Millionaires’ Club.
On Wednesday, Sept. 16 ratings for Crime Watch Daily, the new nationally syndicated daytime true-crime TV show, surged 25% to a series high 1.0 rating/3 share metered market average, according […]
FABLife from Disney-ABC, Crime Watch Daily from Warner Bros. and Crazy Talk from NBCU, receive their first Nielsen scores.
It’s been a humbling stretch for the heart surgeon who built his own successful syndicated talk show. Critics, including some in Congress, scolded the hyperactive health evangelist for promoting questionable diet aids he’s since sworn off. In April, a group of 10 doctors urged that he be removed from Columbia University’s medical faculty, accusing him of promoting “quack treatments.” His show has lost half its viewers over the past five years. His show begins its seventh season today.
WTMJ Drops 3 P.M. News For New Syndie
The Milwaukee NBC affiliate is replacing its 3 p.m. weekday newscast with a new syndicated lifestyle/talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. FABLife premieres Monday at 3 p.m. GM Joe Poss said Thursday that the decision to drop the 3 p.m. newscast and add a syndicated show had been in the works since last year, before the station was acquired by E.W. Scripps Co.
Cater Lee, the broadcast group’s senior director of TV program development for the Scripps broadcast division from 2011 to 2014, is returning. Scripps SVP of Broadcasting Brian Lawlor says: “She has a tremendous instinct for what makes a successful show; has the connections to get the right people in the right spots; and has broad experience in taking a show from its early development concepts all the way to national syndication.”
Among women 25-54 in New York, the series, which featured an interview with Caitlyn Jenner in its fall premiere Tuesday, scored an 3.1 rating/20 share, its biggest debut ever in that important demo, gaining 10 share points over the Steve Harvey lead-in.
Most years there’s a notable trend among the new syndication offerings, from talkers to judge programs to game shows. This year, what’s notable may be just how unlike anything else the new syndie shows are. Three will debut this month (including FABLife), with the syndication season officially getting underway on Tuesday.
Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court will have its third season premiere on Monday, Sept. 21. The syndicated courtroom series, produced by 79th & York Entertainment and distributed by Orion TV Productions, […]
Tim Voit’s Sewee Entertainment has cleared Scripps-owned WXYZ Detroit’s annual summer Woodward Dream Cruise in over 80% of the U.S. for a second consecutive year. Key broadcasters clearing the one-hour […]
Basically a promotion for the multi-state scratch-off lottery game of the same name, the syndicated Monopoly Millionaires’ Club is set to launch season 2 as a half-hour on Saturdays and Sundays in 95% of the markets in the 44 states that permit lotteries.
The new show’s four-week syndication test will offer personal stories behind socially relevant topics based on the headlines.
Broadcast Partners TV is now offering Veggie Tales to TV stations on a barter basis as E/I programming. Each episode of Veggie Tales offers a moral issue at the beginning […]
Meredith Vieira’s daily syndicated talk show will switch to a live format for its second season. It will also feature rotating guest panelists including Lance Bass.
‘Access Hollywood Live’ Moved To PM In LA
KNBC Los Angeles follows in New York’s WNBC’s footsteps by moving Access Hollywood Live from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., where it won’t air “live” at all. The latest move could be indicative of a possible NBCUniversal’s plan to share production resources across E! News and AHL since the latter show could potentially require less staffers to produce if it’s no longer airing live in any markets.
Syndicators Overhaul Shows For Stronger Fall
Producers and distributors are hard at work revamping and tweaking magazines, game shows and talkers to improve ratings come September. Nothing’s off limits, including sets, hosts, formats and staff. Case in point: Access Hollywood, which is getting a new set behind those doors.
The Fox O&O’s summer talk test will now be seen on WTXF as well.
The new hour-long syndicated talk show distributed by Debmar-Mercury will debut Aug. 17 for four weeks in afternoon time periods on Tegna stations in Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Cleveland.
The syndicated Right This Minute is heading into its fifth season this fall without original co-host Beth Troutman. She’s leaving the viral video show to host the evening news and […]
Connection III Entertainment’s weekend half-hour Made In Hollywood and its educational/informational spinoff Made In Hollywood: Teen Edition have legs, with both renewed with almost 90% coverage in years 11 and 10, respectively. “We distinguish ourselves with movie coverage and behind-the-scenes access to movie sets,” says Connection III CEO Cleveland O’Neal. (Photo by Michael Q. Martin)
