Trifecta Clears 'Pawn Stars' in More Than 80% of U.S.

Trifecta Entertainment has cleared its off-History unscripted series, Pawn Stars, in more than 80% of the country for a September 2016 launch, Trifecta said Tuesday.

The show, which has been airing on A+E's History since 2009 and has more than 400 episodes available, will launch on Tribune-owned stations in 16 markets, including WPIX New York. Additional groups that have cleared the show include Sinclair, Meredith, Media General, CBS, Nexstar, Scripps, Weigel, Gray, Cox and Tegna.

Trifecta is offering stations ten episodes per week on an all-barter basis.

Pawn Stars was recently renewed for two more years on A+E’s History. The show premiered in 2009, and consistently ranks as one of History’s top-five programs among adults 25-54 and 18-49. 

Shot in Las Vegas, Pawn Starschronicles the sometimes strange stories at The World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop. Three generations of Harrisons run the 24-hour business that opened in 1989: patriarch Richard “Old Man” Harrison, his son Rick Harrison, and Rick’s son, Corey “Big Hoss” Harrison. 

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.