Fox Stations Slate Markets, Time Slots for 'RuPaul'
Warner Bros.’ new talk show, RuPaul, starring RuPaul Charles of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame, will air for a three-week run on Fox-owned television stations in seven markets starting June 10, the station group said Monday. Those markets are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Charlotte.
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RuPaul will air on the following stations at the following times:
— WNYW New York at 7 p.m. and on WWOR New York at 5 p.m.
— KTTV Los Angeles at 6 p.m. and KCOP Los Angeles at 8 p.m.
— KTVU San Francisco at 2 p.m. and KTVU Plus San Francisco at 3 p.m.
— KRIV Houston 3 p.m.
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— KSAZ Phoenix at 2 p.m.
— WFTC Minneapolis at 8 p.m.
— WJZY Charlotte at 10 a.m.
RuPaul will be executive produced by Jill Van Lokeren, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato and Tom Campbell for World of Wonder, and produced by Telepictures, a unit of Warner Bros. Unscripted & Alternative Television.
RuPaul is one of several tests Fox is queuing up. Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury has partnered with Funny Or Die on talk show Jerry O, starring Jerry O’Connell, that will air on Fox Television Stations in August. In November, Fox stations will air a five-week run of entertainment news magazine Central Avenue from Debmar-Mercury and Will Packer Media.
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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.