Millionaire Snags Pair of Upgrades

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Buena Vista Television’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has been upgraded in two markets.

By fall 2006, the show will return to access on Jefferson-Pilot’s WBTV Charlotte, replacing King World's Everybody Loves Raymond, which is moving to Bahakel's WCCB.
Currently, WBTV double-runs Millionaire at 10 and 10:30 a.m. Millionaire also will move from a double-run at 11 and 11:30 a.m. in West Palm Beach, to an access slot on Freedom’s WPEC. There, Millionaire next fall will replace Warner Bros.’ off-net staple, Friends.

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.