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The veteran daytime producer and showrunner comes on board NBCU Domestic TV Distribution’s fall talker as its clearances pass 90% of U.S. homes.

TV station consolidation is partly to explain recent partnerships such as CBS Television Distribution working with Tribune on syndicated shows Arsenio Hall, The Test and the recently concluded trial run of conflict-resolution show Serch with MC Serch on eight Tribune Stations. “It has helped companies like ours,” said Hilary Estey McLoughlin, president of creative affairs at CTD. “It’s good for long-term brand building.”

CBS Television Distribution has sold the court strip from Judy Sheindlin to stations covering  75% of U.S. Station groups picking up the half-hour show include CBS, Tribune, Sinclair, Cox, Meredith, LIN, Nexstar, Journal, Gray and Cowles.

Bellum Entertainment today announced two more new series and a renewal for fall 2014. What Went Down and State to State will premiere this year and Unsealed: Alien Files returns […]

Edward Swindler, head of NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution is going into the fall with syndication’s brightest new offering, The Meredith Vieira Show. He talks about that as well as Steve Harvey, the fate of such shows as Trisha Goddard and opportunities for fall 2015 that include Katie’s soon-to-be vacated time slots on the ABC O&Os.

Hilary Estey McLoughlin, president of creative affairs at CBS Television Distribution, talks about working for a company with a station launch group in the corporate family, finding new shows within old shows, partnering with broadcasters and the benefits of testing.

Warner Bros. has cut a deal with Sohu Video to make “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” available on the online video platform. Episodes will be subtitled in Chinese and available  48 hours after they air in the U.S.

NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution’s new syndicated talker, The Meredith Vieira Show, is beginning to ramp up the promotion that will include an appearance by the host at NATPE as well as exposure at the Olympics and on her YouTube program.

Another piece of the syndicated talk show puzzle has fallen into place heading into NATPE, with the Fox TV Stations opting not to pick up the talk show hosted by Kris Jenner for next season but leaving the door open for 2015. Kris, produced by sibling Twentieth Television, had a six-week trial run on several key Fox stations this past summer.

E.W. Scripps/Debmar-Mercury says they are shooting to roll out the syndicated legal show nationally next year.

Weekly strips Fix It & Finish It and Flip My Food will launch later this year.

Ellen’s up, Katie‘s down, Modern Family is hot and paternity shows flop. Queen Latifah will be back, but Kris probably won’t.

Meredith Vieira’s new effort could benefit from Couric’s departure, but the news isn’t good for Judge Judy’s Hot Bench and Kris Jenner probably won’t be back.

With the CBS O&Os on board for more of the freshman talker, the  Sony Pictures Television show is cleared in 97% of the United States through 2015.

The CBS Television Distribution show, hosted by rapper and former radio personality MC Serch, which today begins a four-week test on eight Tribune stations, including WPIX New York and KTLA Los Angeles, is meant to fit into the Tribune stations’ conflict-talk lineup.

It’s back to the original name for the syndicated entertainment newsmagazine.

The Disney-ABC syndicated talk show hosted by Katie Couric will wrap up production in June 2014.

NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution said today it has sold The Meredith Vieira Show in more than 85% of the U.S. for its debut in national broadcast syndication in fall 2014. New station groups adding the talk show include Dispatch, Belo, Nexstar, Bonten, Mission, Local, Citadel, Media General, Block, News Press Gazette and Sarkes Tarzian. These station groups join NBC Owned Television Stations and others slotting Meredith Vieira’s new one-hour daytime show.

Court will be in session for a 16th season on Twentieth Television’s Divorce Court. The syndicated daytime court show delivered its highest November sweeps numbers since 2010, Twentieth TV announced today.

Cable channel UP, featuring “uplifting entertainment,” announced today that it has acquired rights to the hit daytime show Steve Harvey from NBCUniversal Television & New Media Distribution. The show will […]

The daytime talk show hosted by Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley follows its summer test with carriage deals from Cox, Sinclair, Gannett, Local TV, Meredith, Raycom, Media General, Gray, Sunbeam, Griffin and Schurz groups, among others.

Katie Couric may want to brush up on her reporting skills before she takes on her new role as “global anchor” at Yahoo!, according to a number of critics displeased with a report about the HPV vaccine on her syndicated talk show, Katie.

With time slots harder to find for their programming, they continue to develop opportunities to get their programs on the air, not only on weekends, but weekdays as well. And they are adapting their business models to the new realities of the marketplace, taking advantage of regulatory changes and seeking non-broadcast outlets at home and abroad.

The sale puts the Craig Ferguson-hosted syndicated show to 58 more markets for a fall 2014 debut.

The Syndicated Network Television Association says top-rated syndicated TV shows are less costly than network primetime programs, with an adult 18-49 CPM that’s less than half that of network primetime TV. Yet they account for at least 70% of the top 10 weekday shows.

Katie Couric is leaving ABC News for a show on Yahoo, ABC News has confirmed. But Disney-ABC is still not saying whether she will be back to host a third season of her talk show. Assuming she will not, broadcasters are already making plans for life without Katie.

Sony Pictures Television’s comedy continues its syndication run through 2017.

With the sale, Debmar-Mercury has lined up the FremantleMedia North America game show in 40% of the U.S., including seven of the top-10 markets.

Homer and Co. are in rolling in dough: Fox’s Twentieth Century Fox TV and Twentieth TV have set a massive first-ever cable syndication and VOD sale of The Simpsons to FX Networks’ new outlet FXX that is worth more than the Gross Domestic Product of some small nations. With 530 episodes and counting, the sale is valued at upwards of $750 million over the life of the deal.

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Telco Productions Inc. is offering The Flipside for fall 2014. Telco says the new weekly, topical half-hour satire series “throws political correctness out the window and pokes […]

In the TV industry’s eternal search for younger viewers, USA Network has decided to stress comedy over crime, making Modern Family reruns the focus of its primetime lineup. Ratings have fallen short of expectations.

Building on the success of its two previous cycles, Sony Pictures Television will begin selling a third cycle of the comedy series The King of Queens, it was announced Monday […]

Almost 20 new shows being offered to stations for next fall, but few are sure things right now. Three are a firm go: Meredith Vieira, The Real and TMZ Live. Pickups of the others will depend in large part on which current shows don’t return and open up coveted time slots. Here’s a look at the hopefuls.

Syndicated daily magazine show America Now is adding speaker and author Mia Redrick to its team of experts. Her first segment airing on Nov. 18 will show busy moms how […]

The prime access game show is now in its second season on 13 Scripps stations, including ABC affiliates WXYZ Detroit and KNXV Phoenix.

Fox’s decision follows a four-week test this summer and clears the way for the show’s national syndication by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The Real is being sold for two years on a cash-plus-barter basis (four national minutes, 11 local minutes).