Tribune to Distribute South Park

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Tribune Entertainment is going to handle most of the off-cable distribution of Debmar Studios’ South Park, the two companies said Thursday.

Under the agreement, Debmar will distribute the Comedy Central’s animated hit in the top-30 markets, while Tribune takes care of distribution for the rest of the country and sell all the ad time.

The show will premiere as a strip in fall 2005 and has been cleared in more than 60% of the country, including 19 of the top 20 markets, on stations from the Tribune, Viacom, Cox, Belo, Sinclair and Weigel station groups.

The show is offered to stations for cash-plus-barter.

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.