Seacrest clears 65% of U.S.

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Twentieth Television has cleared Ryan Seacrest’s new syndicated show in 65%
of the country, including Fox owned-and-operated stations in New York, Los
Angeles and Chicago.

The show, still untitled, is also cleared on UPN affiliate KBHK-TV San
Francisco; KSTW-TV Seattle; WAWS Jacksonville, Fla.; WXIX-TV Cincinnati; and WXMI-TV
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Twentieth also has hired as co-executive producer Adam Freeman, who comes to
the show from MTV: Music Television's Total Request Live.

Freeman is relocating from New York to Los Angeles to produce Seacrest’s
show.

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.