Judge Ross' Sold in 75% of the Country

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has cleared its new court show, America's Court with Judge Ross, in 75% of the country for next fall.

Groups signing on including Weigel, Scripps, Media General, Acme, Cox,Raycom, Barrington, Ellis, Journal, Belo, Bonton, LIN, New Age and Sinclair.Besides airing in broadcast syndication, America's Court also will air onone of Entertainment Studios six high-definition cable networks that werelaunched on Verizon's FiOS broadband systems last September.

Entertainment Studios will produce and deliver a minimum of 26 weeks oforiginal episodes of America's Court in high definition as well as 26 weeks of repeats. The show is sold in one-hour blocks of two half-hour episodes.  Judge Kevin A. Ross, 46, has been a judge, prosecutor and media personalityin Southern California.

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.