KXTV Sacramento to Give 'Security Brief' a Primetime Shot

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Tegna is giving The Security Brief with Paul Viollis a shot in primetime on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 9 to 11 p.m. on ABC affiliate KXTV Sacramento.

The crime-focused talk show will air two episodes titled “Craigslist Killers” and “Hostage at Gunpoint.”

Tegna, Scripps and Sinclair Broadcast Group all are running four-week tests of the show, starting Dec. 21. The primetime airing is a sort of sneak peek in Sacramento. Besides that market, the show will air in Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Detroit, Kansas City, Missouri, and Tucson, Arizona.

Executive producer Terry Murphy and producing partner (and son) Patrick W. Murphy already have 75 episodes in the can with plans to produce 75 more so if any of the station groups want to keep running the show after the test, they can.

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.