CSI: NY Clears 75%

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King World Productions has sold the latest entry to CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation franchise, CSI: NY, in 75% of the country for weekend broadcast syndication starting in 2008.

Stations are getting 6.5 minutes of ad time to sell in the show, with the syndicator getting 7.5 minutes.

The quick sale is no surprise. CSI: NY’s big brother, CSI, is going gangbusters on weekends, averaging a 5.3 national household rating season-to-date.

That makes it by far the top-rated show among the weekend hours. This week, CSI was the sixth-rated show in all of syndication, consistently ranking in the top 10.

CSI: NY is cleared on stations in the top-30 markets, including WCBS New York, KCBS Los Angeles, WBBM Chicago, KYW Philadelphia, and WBZ Boston.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.