Missing cleared in 75% of U.S.

Telco Productions has cleared weekly half-hour series Missing in
more than 75 percent of the country for a fall-2003 launch, president
Alex Paen said.

Telco recently added independent WCIU-TV Chicago; NBC affiliate WFLA-TV
Tampa, Fla.; NBC affiliate WPXI-TV Pittsburgh; UPN affiliate WRBU-TV St. Louis; and
Fox affiliate WTNZ Knoxville, Tenn., to Missing's lineup.

The show, which will air segments on missing people, is collaborating with
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the FBI.

Telco also cleared its other weekly half-hour, Animal Rescue, in
90 percent of the country for its seventh season.

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.