NBC Uni seals syndie 'Deal'

October 08, 2007 The distributor now has officially announced that it has cleared the game show as a strip on a majority of the NBC owned-and-operated stations -- including WNBC New York, KNBC Los Angeles, WMAQ Chicago, WCAU Philadelphia and KNTV San Francisco -- as well as stations owned by CBS, Allbritton, Scripps and Sinclair. "Deal" is being sold as a purely as a strip -- with no weekend runs -- on a cash-plus-barter basis, with 5 1/2 minutes of commercial time allotted to the stations and 1 1/2 reserved for the distributor. For his part, Endemol USA president David Goldberg said the syndicated version "will continue to work with American audiences for years to come."

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