Matthews set for fall debut

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NBC Enterprises has sold its half-hour, first-run offering, The Chris
Matthews Show, in nine of the top 10 markets
for a fall 2002 launch.

The weekend news and commentary show, from the host of
co-owned MSNBC's Hardball, is now cleared in 70 percent of the country.

The majority of the top-10 stations carrying the show are
NBC-owned, but stations from a laundry list of other groups are on board,
including ones from Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., Gannett Co. Inc., A.H. Belo Corp., Cox Broadcasting,
Scripps-Howard Co., LIN Television Corp. and Clear Channel Communications Inc.

The show will be produced by NBC News out of Washington,
D.C.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.