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Upgrades for Feud
By Paige Albiniak
Broadcasting & Cable
8/25/2003
Tribune's veteran game show Family Feud is being rewarded for good ratings with upgrades and new stations. Last year, the show's household rating increased 10%, from 2.1 from 2.3, according to Nielsen. In the daytime demos, its ratings rose 11% among women 18-34, 11% among women 18-49 and 10% among women 25-54.
\"We told everybody we were going to make this show better,\" says Steve Mulderrig, Tribune Entertainment senior vice president of domestic and cable sales, \"and the proof is in the ratings.\"
In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots. In Los Angeles, Young's independent KCAL(TV) will double-run it at 6:30 and 7 p.m., instead of just at 6:30 p.m.
Additional upgrades are in Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; Detroit; Indianapolis; New Orleans; Norfolk, Va.; Seattle; Tucson, Ariz.; Washington; and West Palm Beach, Fla. The show will premiere this fall in Columbus, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Lexington, Ky.; Little Rock, Ark.; Memphis, Tenn.; St. Louis; and Wilmington, Del. The new stations will boost clearances from 166 markets covering 93% of the country last season to 185 markets covering 97%.
Tribune attributes the show's recent success to host Richard Karn, once of ABC's Home Improvement, who replaced Louis Anderson last fall.
Tribune and FremantleMedia North America, which produces Family Feud, also have worked to give the show a younger, more contemporary feel. Karn asks competing families such questions as \"name a reason it's good to be Jennifer Lopez,\" or \"name a food women crave when they're pregnant.\"
\"There a contemporary feel to it, a female relatability to it, and it's very family-friendly,\" says Donna Harrison, Tribune senior vice president of unscripted and reality programming.
Family Feud has had several lives on TV, starting on ABC in 1976 and moving into simultaneous syndication from 1977 to 1985. It returned from 1988 through 1995 and came back a third time in 1999.
Stations pay a cash license fee and retain 51/2 minutes of ad time, while Tribune keeps 90 seconds to sell nationally.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 04:21 PM\'] Upgrades for Feud
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Somewhere, Louie Anderson is eating a plate of crow (among other things).
I had no clue that Feud made a rise in the ratings. I'm glad to read that...I think it has a fairly good chance of maybe seeing a 6th season, and matching the Combs run, but let's see 03-04 first. :-)
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I think if the feud can keep the momentum it currently has, it will have a good chance of meeting, or perhaps even beating, the Combs' run.
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Does anyone know where I can find a complete list of stations that have Family Feud this season? I want to see if any of my local affiliates picked it up this season.
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I tried familyfeud.com, but it appears the \"old\" listings are still there.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 04:21 PM\']Tribune and FremantleMedia North America, which produces Family Feud, also have worked to give the show a younger, more contemporary feel. Karn asks competing families such questions as \"name a reason it's good to be Jennifer Lopez,\" or \"name a food women crave when they're pregnant.\"[/quote]
I wonder if Ms. Albiniak meant for those two sentences to be related. Because, if she did, A) there're certainly no more \"contemporary\" questions that there were during Louie's run, and B) saying the latter question gives the show a \"younger, more contemporary feel\" would be rather sad.
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In DC, is moving from 1:00 to 3:00 an \"upgrade\"? Looks like a lateral move to me.
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Wonder if FF will still be shown at 10 am on Ch 36 in Charleston, or move to another station and be double run.
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There'd be more younger viewers able to watch at 3, wouldn't there?
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[quote name=\'SteveRep\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 10:56 PM\'] In DC, is moving from 1:00 to 3:00 an "upgrade"? Looks like a lateral move to me. [/quote]
No, that's an upgrade. The later you go, the more viewers you have during that hour when more people are getting off of work and coming home from school.
Brandon Brooks
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In my area, it appears that Feud is getting an upgrade for the double run episode. Originally, we got the first run at 10am and the second at 3:30am. Now it appears they will run at 10am and 2pm.
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In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots.
This makes the 2nd time it's moved to Ch. 5...last time they did so was early in the 01-02 season, and it returned to Ch. 9 for the current season.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Aug 28 2003, 10:44 AM\']
In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots.
This makes the 2nd time it's moved to Ch. 5...last time they did so was early in the 01-02 season, and it returned to Ch. 9 for the current season.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
That's also a misleading statement. On WWOR, Feud aired at 3 pm and again at 4, with Pyramid in between at 3:30 and a second ep. at 4:30.
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Oddly enough, Family Feud gets a double run here in Lexington from 2 to 3 PM, albeit on a lowly UPN affliliate, and it's been this way since it debuted in '99. So why we are listed as a new market is beyond me.......
Tyshaun
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IIRC, Columbus, OH has had it for a good while now also.
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In Denver, Feud recently got an upgrade from 11:30AM to 5:00PM - the station people must have faith in it.
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Aug 28 2003, 12:15 PM\'] In Denver, Feud recently got an upgrade from 11:30AM to 5:00PM - the station people must have faith in it. [/quote]
I'm thinking the same thing about WTVZ, the Norfolk affiliate. It's moving from 11 am to 5-6 pm, against 3 hour-long newscasts. I wish them luck. :-/
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Indianapolis is an upgrade? Wait just a darn minute.
It's going to air at 10 and 10:30 AM on WISH-8, the CBS affiliate. Right now, it's airing from 2-3 AM on Tribune-owned WTTV-4, the WB affiliate. But, up until two months ago, it was airing on WB4 from 9-10 AM.
Did Tribune bury Feud for a couple of months just so they could say it's getting an upgrade?
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Talk about an upgrade...it looks like Portland, OR will have a double run of Feud from 3-4 PM on, weirdly enough, KPDX 49 (http://\"http://www.kpdx.com/\"), the UPN affiliate. Interestingly enough, KPDX used to be the FOX affiliate until September of 2002, because of a duopoly that now owns both KPTV 12 (http://\"http://www.kptv.com/\") [the current FOX affiliate] and KPDX; just go to their websites, they look pretty much the same!
Last season, Feud was only on at 10:30 AM on KGW 8 (http://\"http://www.kgw.com/\") (NBC), which was really stupid, because it was competing against TPiR's second half (Syndie Link was on at 10 AM, BTW).
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In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots.
Additional upgrades are in Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; Detroit; Indianapolis; New Orleans; Norfolk, Va.; Seattle; Tucson, Ariz.; Washington; and West Palm Beach, Fla. The show will premiere this fall in Columbus, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Lexington, Ky.; Little Rock, Ark.; Memphis, Tenn.; St. Louis; and Wilmington, Del. The new stations will boost clearances from 166 markets covering 93% of the country last season to 185 markets covering 97%.
Too bad Philadelphia isn't included in the list of station switches. Channel 48 can be pretty annoying with the static, even on DISH. Too bad it's moving in New York. I have WWOR, but not WNYW. Ah well. Beggars can't be choosers.
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Columbus Ohio has had Feud since the beginning in 99.
But I was looking at WTTE FOX 28's schedule today and it looks like they will be double running it at noon starting the 8th. Gone from the noon spot is Hollywood Squares. Which, by the way, I couldn't find on any other Columbus station. So Feud runs at 12 and 12:30, and H2 is gone from the Columbus, Ohio area.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 02:21 PM\'] In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots. In Los Angeles, Young's independent KCAL(TV) will double-run it at 6:30 and 7 p.m., instead of just at 6:30 p.m. [/quote]
On a non-game-show related note, you'd think Broadcasting & Cable would have a few copies of a \"who owns what in the largest markets\" information sheet lying around the office for the use of reports and/or copy editors.
Fox owns WWOR, not Viacom; Viacom owns KCAL, not Young.
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Aug 28 2003, 11:44 AM\']
In New York, Family Feud is moving from Viacom's WWOR-TV, where it was double-run from 3 to 4 p.m., to Fox's WNYW(TV) in the same time slots.
This makes the 2nd time it's moved to Ch. 5...last time they did so was early in the 01-02 season, and it returned to Ch. 9 for the current season.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
BTW, is Pyramid moving with it by any chance?
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[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' date=\'Aug 28 2003, 12:38 PM\']Indianapolis is an upgrade? Wait just a darn minute.
It's going to air at 10 and 10:30 AM on WISH-8, the CBS affiliate. Right now, it's airing from 2-3 AM on Tribune-owned WTTV-4, the WB affiliate. But, up until two months ago, it was airing on WB4 from 9-10 AM.
Did Tribune bury Feud for a couple of months just so they could say it's getting an upgrade?[/quote]
Seems to me that either way it would be considered an upgrade because it's a move from a mini-net station (although a longtime established indie) to a Big 4 network station.
I won't make a pronouncement on what \"WWTBAM\"'s move to WGN will be until I've seen a time slot--since Sept. 15 schedules are not up yet, nothing can be said (but WGN's schedule for Sept. 8 now shows that John Walsh is moving to WGN, while he's still on WMAQ's schedules for the same day--HELLO!)
Meanwhile, Tribune Broadcasting's one-size-fits-all station web sites seem to believe that the ony new syndicated programming on its O&Os is Sharon Osbourne. Grumble grumble grumble.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 29 2003, 11:21 AM\'] I won't make a pronouncement on what "WWTBAM"'s move to WGN will be until I've seen a time slot--since Sept. 15 schedules are not up yet, nothing can be said (but WGN's schedule for Sept. 8 now shows that John Walsh is moving to WGN, while he's still on WMAQ's schedules for the same day--HELLO!) [/quote]
Very silly question for a Chicago ex-patriate: Will Millionaire be on the national WGN feed, or will it be exclusively on WGN-TV?
(It is a silly question because Millionaire does nicely as the lead-in to TPiR on WTKR, but I'm just asking if there are places out there without easy clearance to a station with Millionaire on it.)
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I'm not too sure, but I heard (from Steve Beverly's site, I think) that Millionaire will be limited to Chicagoland's WGN only, while something else appears on the Superstation.
Sharon Osbourne's show will be seen on the Superstation, though. It seems that most shows syndicated by Tribune also appear on the Superstation.
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The Atlanta Sched. for GS are
WGCL: FF - 3:00 am ?
WXIA: H2 - 3:00 pm
J!: 4:30 pm
Pyr: 3:30 Pm
Millionaire - 4 pm
Wheel - 7:30 pm
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If only they would keep the updated Combs music, but without the very unnecessary and poor edits going out to commercial. If only they would make more use of it. I dont mind the remixing they did with it, just bring it back for this season ;((( They brought back the scoring scheme, why do they have to get rid of the music... anyway, the music isnt the show, but still i would have loved to hear it still. I think the updates made it modern enough to keep for the show, it was just badly cued in places and could have been done better. Who knows, maybe they will use it..... i only will hope.
Im still waiting for pyramid to get some kind of music...... lol
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I'm not too sure, but I heard (from Steve Beverly's site, I think) that Millionaire will be limited to Chicagoland's WGN only, while something else appears on the Superstation.
It is true. Millionaire's move to WGN is for the Chicago area only. For those of you who are punished to torture by The Sharon Osbourne Show on the Superstation, I feel bad for you. Do not worry, I am sure that it will be a goner by the spring thaw.
The Inquisitive One
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Some interesting daytime lineup changes in Philly as I was checking the TV listings for the 15th...
As it's been said, KYW is adding a 4pm hourly newcast - however, by the looks of the listings, the 5pm-6pm news hour is being shelved in favor of Dr. Phil, which moves from 3pm. Making up the 3pm hour will now be Pyramid at 3, and \"Inside Edition\" at 3:30.
Also, speaking of Pyramid - not sure if this is an error or not, but it looks to be on 3 times a day next week on KYW - 9am, 4:30pm, and 7:30pm according to the new TV Guide I bought yesterday.
Additionally - as per an ad yesterday I saw on WABC, even the ABC Flagship station is pulling the plug on Port Charles in daytime - WWTBAM episodes begin on September 15 at 12:30 pm - PC will be relegated to 3:35am. WPVI in Philly is also jumping the gun as well.
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WHat the hell happened to Squares in Philly if Pyramid is now on at 7:30PM(the new season starts next week, though the new format starts on the 15th). I would assume that might be a typo, with the way TV Guide is headed.
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Aug 31 2003, 02:40 AM\']Sharon Osbourne's show will be seen on the Superstation, though. It seems that most shows syndicated by Tribune also appear on the Superstation.[/quote]
Warners is syndicating Mrs. Ozzy, but thanks to that long-term sweetheart deal with Warners that gave Jenny Jones a one-year stay of execution (and Tribune Broadcasting's equity position in The WB), all Tribune O&Os carry a boatload of Warners shows. Most likely, Sharon shows will air on the superstation one week after they air in the rest of the country, similar to the deal Warners made with Oxygen for Ellen DeGeneres (and with ABC Family last year for Caroline).