Against Expectations, Fox Stations Wild About 'Harry'

摘要

The fox-owned television stations' acquisition of NBCUniversal's Harry last week completely changed industry assumptions about what the syndication landscape would look like come next September. That NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution was in development on a show with Harry Connick, Jr., was well known, and it was widely assumed that the show was being developed to replace NBCU's Meredith Vieira, which is averaging a 0.9 in households in its second season, according to Nielsen Media Research. Several sources confirm that NBCU DTD had been trying to convince stations to swap Harry for Meredith in midseason.