'Ricki,' 'Anderson' Close to Full-Country Clearances

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Talk shows are closing in on full-country clearances.

Twentieth's Ricki Lake is now sold in 80% of the country, while Warner Bros.' Anderson is cleared for season two in almost 90% of the U.S.

Ricki Lake is cleared in 29 out of the top 30 markets, and on stations in the CBS, McKinnon, LIN, Newport, Post-Newsweek Raycom, Capital, Nexstar and additional Fox groups. Ricki's launch group includes Tribune and Fox stations in top markets.

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Anderson added Allbritton's WJLA Washington to its renewal list, which is now at almost 90% of the country with 47 of the top 50 markets cleared. Anderson is moving to Fox's WNYW New York next fall, and it currently airs in the 4 p.m. Oprah time slot on WJLA.

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.