‘Dateline’ Renewed For Season 7 By NBC Stations

NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has renewed Dateline with the NBC Owned Television Stations group (part of NBCUniversal Local) for its seventh season in national broadcast syndication.

NBCUniversal Syndication Studios has renewed Dateline with the NBC Owned Television Stations group (part of NBCUniversal Local) for its seventh season in national broadcast syndication.

The syndicated version of Dateline airs weekdays on stations from leading broadcast groups, including NBC Owned TV Stations, Tegna, Fox, Gray, Cox Media Group, Scripps, Nexstar, Hearst, Sinclair, Sunbeam, Graham Media, Weigel, Block, Hubbard and more.

Sean O’Boyle, executive vice president of syndication sales, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, said: “When we first launched Dateline in syndication six years ago, it was primarily scheduled as a utility program on various types of stations airing in a wide variety of time periods but this has evolved,” O’Boyle said. “Dateline is now a proven success in syndication and has become a key program airing in daytime on mostly traditional affiliated broadcast stations. Dateline is one of the most successful programs in all of daytime and the ratings continue to grow as does the station lineup.”

“Dateline is best in class in the true-crime genre with riveting storytelling and high-quality production,” said Therese Gamba, chief marketing officer and executive vice president of acquired programming, NBCUniversal Local. “Dateline is a natural fit with our NBC brand and has performed well with our daytime audiences. We’re pleased to extend its run on our NBC stations.”

Averaging 1.6 million daily viewers, Dateline in syndication has grown its audience by 21% year-over-year and ranks as a top five one-hour Monday-Friday show in syndication.