Fox's MyNet stations pick up ‘AFHV'

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The Fox Television Stations have picked up Disney-ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos in a two-year all-barter deal.

The show will premiere this fall as a Monday-Friday strip on Fox's MyNetwork TV duopoly stations. It's also cleared in 85% of the country.

This is America's Funniest Home Videos second go-round in syndication. It previously aired between 1995 and 2001, and was sold by MTM from 1995-98 and then Twentieth from 1998-2001.

The show, hosted by Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron, is going into its 20th season on ABC. Its two-hour season finale, in which one of this season's three $100,000 video winners will compete for a membership in Disney's Vacation Club, is on Friday, May 15, at 8 p.m.

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.