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June 2, 2025

“The Kelly Clarkson Show’s” future in doubt

With personal problems and a daytime daypart bleeding viewers, she may call it a career While the news is bubbling under the radar, Kelly Clarkson’s syndicated daytime talk show could be headed into its final season this fall.  Tabloid gossip has been running rampant in the last few weeks regarding the American Idol first-season winner’s weakening desire to continue with the […]

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May 6, 2025

Comcast’s cable spinoff to be named Versant

  New company won’t acquire additional networks [Editor’s Note: This article was updated May 8.] Comcast finally settled on a name for the soon-to-be spun-off cable networks from NBCUniversal, as they settled on Versant, replacing the prototype SpinCo name. It was chosen after sorting through 43 entries, cut to a dozen, and sent through a committee, settling on Versant. The name […]

0 2 min read
September 27, 2024

The Media Notepad: NBC Sports Chicago says goodbye with special programming

Also: So long My50…again; “Wheel”, “Drew” off to strong ratings start; ABC 7 promotes Nwosu to marketing position  While NBC Sports’ other RSNs are preparing for the future, NBC Sports Chicago is ending its 20-year run Monday – but not quietly as the station plans to air over 36 hours of live and past content Sunday, celebrating its time on […]

1 4 min read
September 6, 2024

Fall syndication lineup: More Judy, and Urkel returns

  New TV era means a new way of doing business Back in the late 1980s when cable TV was growing, a big deal was made about syndicated exclusively, or “syndex” as local broadcasters complained about national “superstations” such as WWOR-TV in New York and WGN-TV in Chicago draining rating points from their programs. And so, on January 1, 1990, […]

2 4 min read
August 14, 2023

48 Hours to spend time in syndication this fall (updated)

Repackaged episodes of CBS Newsmagazine sold to local TV stations [Editor’s Note: This story was updated on August 28.] Following in the footsteps of NBC’s Dateline, CBS’ Saturday mainstay 48 Hours is heading the syndication route starting September 11, with nearly 600 repackaged episodes.  The newly repackaged episodes are hosted by Jericka Duncan and Jonathan Viglotti and features updates and […]

0 3 min read
April 27, 2023

Jerry Springer dies at 79

Talk show host left legacy – for better or worse Jerry Springer, who had quite an interesting career path, died Thursday morning in his suburban Chicago home after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 79.  Though he was a lawyer, the mayor of Cincinnati, a news anchor, and a radio talk show host, Springer will be best known […]

2 3 min read
December 22, 2022

State of syndication: a much quieter year

After nine shows were wipe off the schedule, a quieter 2023 is ahead If there’s anything after the great syndication purge of 2022, 2023 is shaping up to be much different. An article on NextTV’s website Tuesday detailed how there are very few first-run syndicated programs in development as this year’s new entries are likely to stick around. Even though […]

0 3 min read
September 12, 2022

What’s new for syndication this fall

Drastically different schedules begins today (Editor’s Note: This post was updated on September 17.) There are a ton of changes in television outside of prime-time with the new season beginning today. For one, there is no more Ellen DeGeneres as she danced off the stage last spring while Maury Povich and his paternity tests retired to Florida, leaving us with […]

0 5 min read
June 4, 2022

“Magnum P.I.” might get a second life – somewhere

Corporate synergy could save show but complex rights issue stand in the way  Magnum P.I., the recently-canceled reboot with Jay Hernandez in the starring role, could return with new episodes.  As first reported by Deadline, series producer Universal Television is looking for a way to bring back the action drama for a fifth season – possibly airing on NBC or […]

1 3 min read
April 25, 2022

The Media Notepad: CNN Plus gets subtracted

  Also: Black Chicagoans (still) not happy with media outlets;  Syndicated ‘Dateline’ shifts to new local outlet; Rock 95.5 surges in ratings  After just four weeks, CNN Plus is getting… subtracted. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned service announced Thursday it was closing April 30 after launching on March 28, debuting to poor reviews and a cumbersome price of $5.99 monthly or […]

0 5 min read
April 14, 2022

CW 26, The U adds “Karamo” to fall schedule

  ‘Karamo’ gets picked up for fall production commitment While it was rumored NBCUniversal was going to launch a new talk show to replace the retiring Maury Povich, they made it official today with the announcement of Karamo. Hosted by Queer Eye cast member Karamo Brown, the new hour-long strip has been cleared in 90 percent of the country for […]

0 2 min read
March 21, 2022

The Media Notepad: “Maury” to end after 31 seasons

    B96 unveils new Morning Mess show; Amazon’s purchase of MGM finalized The news was tipped by Broadcasting & Cable in January 2021 and mentioned here in July 2021, but the best-kept secret in television is now out of the bag: Maury Povich and his “who’s the father” show Maury is finally ending after 31 years on the air […]

0 5 min read
September 13, 2021

“You Bet Your Life”, “Daytime Chicago” headline local TV’s new fall season

New shows dot local schedules  The new television season outside of prime-time begins Monday and you will see some new faces and new places. For one, Jay Leno is returning to daily TV seven years after he left The Tonight Show for a second time. Now, he’s taking his act to earlier time slots with his new You Bet Your […]

4 4 min read
June 7, 2021

Syndication notes: “Young Sheldon” heads to broadcast syndication with 90% cleared

WGN-TV picks up show in Nexstar deal. Also: Access: Hollywood renewed through 2025 Are you ready to put up with Young Sheldon five nights a week? You’d better be.  Already airing on Nick at Nite, the Big Bang Theory prequel has been sold in 90 percent of the country by Warner Bros. to broadcast stations this fall, including Nexstar stations […]

0 3 min read
May 27, 2021

Kelly Clarkson to take over Ellen DeGeneres’ 3 p.m. slots on NBC-owned stations in 2022

Includes NBC 5 in Chicago Quickly removing any speculation, the NBC-owned stations announced they were slotting sister company NBCUniversal Syndication Services’ Kelly Clarkson Show in the time period now occupied by Ellen starting in September 2022.  This means Clarkson is replacing Ellen into the plum 3 p.m. real estate spot on ten NBC-owned stations, including NBC 5 (WMAQ-TV) here in […]

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