NBCU's 'Meredith Vieira' Cleared in 85% of U.S.

The Meredith Vieira Show is now sold in more than 85% of the country for its fall 2014 debut, said NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution on Wednesday.

New station groups to the line-up include Dispatch, Belo, Nexstar, Bonten, Mission, Local, Citadel, Media General, Block, News Press Gazette and Sarkes Tarzian. These stations join NBC Owned Television Stations, Hearst and other previously announced station groups that will launch the talk show next fall.

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.