BKS launches Playground

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BKS Entertainment is launching for next fall Playground Earth, a new
weekly half-hour focused on extreme sports.

BKS will have 26 original episodes available for stations Oct. 1,
with a 50-50 barter split and eight minutes of advertising time per episode.

The show will feature sports stars such as skateboard legend Tony Hawk, BMX
rider Dave Mira, pro-beach-volleyball star Albert Hanneman, Chicago Cubs
favorite Sammy Sosa and pro surfer Josh Mohr.

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An early pilot of the show first aired on Fox Sports Net in April 2001, but
new producers have revamped the show and given it a new host.

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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.