Tribune Expands Weekly Half-Hour 'Dr. Steve' to 17 Markets

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Tribune Broadcasting is expanding its half-hour weekly health and wellness program, Dr. Steve, to 17 of its markets starting Sunday, Sept. 17.

The show currently airs on Tribune's WPIX New York; KDAF Dallas; KIAH Houston and WSFL Miami; and is adding KTLA Los Angeles; WGN/CLTV Chicago; WPHL Philadelphia; WDCW Washington; KCPQ/JoeTV Seattle; KTXL Sacramento, Calif.; KRCW Portland, Ore.; WTTV/WXIN Indianapolis; KSWB San Diego; WCCT Hartford, Conn.; WPMT Harrisburg, Pa.; WXMI Grand Rapids, Mich.; and WGNO New Orleans.

Dr. Steve is hosted by Dr. Steven Salvatore, a board-certified emergency room doctor.

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.