Blizzard sends Maury viewers

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

All those New Yorkers stranded at home in the blizzard on a holiday gave a
huge boost to Universal Television's Maury, which
scored a 7.6 rating/13 share on The WB Television Network affiliate WPIX-TV New
York at 10 a.m., beating all its competition.

That's a 138 percent increase in rating over the show's usual performance and
a 117 percent increase in share from its lead-in, Warner Bros.' Jenny
Jones.

It was also Maury's season high on the station.

The show's topic was "Paternity Updates," in which men
found out if they had fathered certain children.

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.