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Anderson Cooper Daytime Show to Air on FOX Stations

By Chris Ariens on November 29, 2010 12:31 PM

Anderson Cooper‘s syndicated daytime show has been sold in four of the nation’s top markets, B&C’s Paige Albiniak reports. FOX owned and operated stations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston will carry the program beginning next fall. In New York, Cooper will air on Tribune-owned WPIX.

In addition to his role as co-founder and Chairman of Fox News and Fox Business, Roger Ailes is also Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group, which means he likely signed off on the purchase of Cooper’s show on the local FOX stations.

So what will Cooper’s show be?

“Nobody is doing the non-Ellen portion of Oprah and that’s an interesting place to be,” Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution tells Albiniak.

Warner Bros.’ light-hearted Ellen is full of fun, wit and dancing, while CBS Television Distribution’s Oprah, which ends its storied run after this season, runs the gamut from fashion segments and celebrity chats to emotional interviews with crime victims and intellectual discussions with authors.

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Posted: Mon., Nov. 29, 2010, 10:13am PT

Fox stations clear Anderson Cooper talker
Tribune also picks up new chat show in New York

By Michael Schneider

Anderson Cooper, meet your new boss: Roger Ailes.
Cooper's new daytime yakker has been cleared by Fox-owned stations in three of the nation's top markets, including KTTV Los Angeles, WFLD Chicago and WFXT Boston. Show has also cleared on Tribune's WPIX-TV in New York.

Cooper, of course, hosts CNN's signature nightly newscast "Anderson Cooper 360." And the Fox TV Stations are run by Ailes, whose Fox News Channel regularly trounces CNN and Cooper.

When Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution first announced the new hour-long strip, set for a fall 2011 debut, most rivals expected a deal with the Fox stations to be a non-starter precisely because of that Fox News/CNN rivalry.

Even Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution at the time believed the Cooper show might have a shot with stations (including WABC New York) that decided to fill the Oprah Winfrey void with more local news.

But with the ABC stations holding firm with local news plans (or, in the case of KABC Los Angeles, with "Dr. Oz"), the distributor found a home at the Fox stations.

Telepictures is producing the show, which will be shot in New York. As part of Cooper's deal with Telepictures and Warner Bros. in September, the anchor also reupped with CNN to continue his primetime news program there.

Clearances for the daytime show were announced Monday by Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution prexy Ken Werner and sales chief Rick Meril.

"Although the marketplace for fall 2011 has been filled by many returning franchises and the expansion of news programs, there is still a big opportunity across stations," said Werner. "We are delighted that these major market stations have embraced the opportunity to bring one of America's finest storytellers to daytime and early fringe viewers."

Telepictures described the show as a female-driven strip that's a cross between Oprah Winfrey's newsier elements and Phil Donahue's old show.

"He will bring to viewers the biggest celebrity and newsmaker interviews, fascinating human interest stories and in-depth coverage of pop culture, social issues, trends and major events," said Telepictures prexy Hilary Estey McLoughlin. "He's got a proven skill set and the diverse experience to propel him to succeed in this format day in and day out. Anderson is an iconic talent whose intelligence, compassion, charisma, sense of humor and genuine appeal will enable him to stand out and create an emotional connection with women in daytime."