Family Feud cleared in 90% of U.S.

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Tribune Entertainment has cleared game show Family Feud in 90 percent
of the country, with the show airing next fall in 142 markets throughout the
United States.

The show saw an improvement in its ratings this February compared with February
2002, and the company largely attributed the uptick to the addition of new
host Richard Karn, formerly of ABC's Home Improvement.

The show, produced by FremantleMedia North America, is going into its fifth
season.

It is distributed on a cash-plus-barter basis with five-and-a-half national
minutes and one-and-a-half local minutes.

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.