WB's Family Affair debut scores high

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The WB Television Network's Family Affair, which was accompanied by a sneak peek at the
new Harry Potter movie, scored a 4.7 Nielsen Media Research rating/8 share and was the
network's fourth-highest comedy debut ever.

Family Affair had the second-best Thursday debut for the network
after Charmed on Oct. 4, 2001.

The show also posted a 55 percent increase in the time period over last
year's Popstars 2.

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Paige Albiniak
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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.