"The Insider" Syndicated Newsmagazine To End after 13 Seasons
by Nellie Andreeva
February 7, 2017


CBS TV Distribution’s syndicated entertainment newsmagazine "The Insider" will end its run in September after 13 seasons. The staff of the show, a spin-off from "Entertainment Tonight", has been informed of the cancellation decision this morning.

With celebrity news ubiquitous online, ratings and license fees for TV entertainment newsmagazines have been declining, and it has become harder for them to distinguish themselves.





ET has been the category’s ratings leader, averaging 3.3 household ratings season to date. Another CBS TV Distribution program, "Inside Edition", which has pulled away from celebrity gossip to focus on human interest stories and viral videos, is second (2.9).

There is a major gap between the two and the next-tier entertainment newsmagazines, Warner Bros’ "TMZ" (1.6), NBCU’s "Access Hollywood" (1.5), and Warner Bros’ "Extra" (1.3), followed by "The Insider" (1.1), which has been the lowest-rated among the established programs in the genre.





Launched in 2004 with Pat O’Brien as host and the premise of providing the inside story behind entertainment news, "The Insider" underwent several format changes, including a partnership with Yahoo! and brief title change to "omg! Insider".

Its current hosts are Louis Aguirre and Debbie Matenopoulos.

http://deadline.com/2017/02/the-insider-canceled-13-seasons-1201903903/

With The Insider's cancellation, CTD's newsmag strip gets upgrades in the Big Apple, Philly and L.A.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/distribution/inside-edition-gets-upgrades-eve-its-anniversary/163449

"The Insider" Syndicated Newsmagazine To End after 13 Seasons
by Nellie Andreeva
February 7, 2017


CBS TV Distribution’s syndicated entertainment newsmagazine "The Insider" will end its run in September after 13 seasons. The staff of the show, a spin-off from "Entertainment Tonight", has been informed of the cancellation decision this morning.

With celebrity news ubiquitous online, ratings and license fees for TV entertainment newsmagazines have been declining, and it has become harder for them to distinguish themselves.





ET has been the category’s ratings leader, averaging 3.3 household ratings season to date. Another CBS TV Distribution program, "Inside Edition", which has pulled away from celebrity gossip to focus on human interest stories and viral videos, is second (2.9).

There is a major gap between the two and the next-tier entertainment newsmagazines, Warner Bros’ "TMZ" (1.6), NBCU’s "Access Hollywood" (1.5), and Warner Bros’ "Extra" (1.3), followed by "The Insider" (1.1), which has been the lowest-rated among the established programs in the genre.





Launched in 2004 with Pat O’Brien as host and the premise of providing the inside story behind entertainment news, "The Insider" underwent several format changes, including a partnership with Yahoo! and brief title change to "omg! Insider".

Its current hosts are Louis Aguirre and Debbie Matenopoulos.

http://deadline.com/2017/02/the-insider-canceled-13-seasons-1201903903/

I think what did The Insider in was that it was simply too similar to Entertainment Tonight. What I mean is that it was practically the same show, just with different edits and graphics. It was as if, The Insider was simply there as a glorified "first half hour" to an imagined one hour version of ET. And because it was sold along its parent program, ET despite having trouble finding its footing, it was able to last 13 years.

Perhaps, when The Insider first came on the air with Pat O'Brien, who had just left Access Hollywood, they thought that getting Pat would steal some of Access Hollywood's viewers. Unfortunately, Pat O'Brien was dealing with a lot of personal issues at the time (about four years) that he was hosting The Insider.

Good riddance! I've wanted this cancelled since they changed the title to use God's name in vain.

http://www.campaignlive.com/article/syndication-scorecard/1427407

Magazine
With aforementioned "The Insider" from CTD canceled, joining the category of magazine (after a test-run last summer) is "Page Six TV" from Twentieth Television and Endemol Shine North America, based on the iconic gossip page from the New York Post. It is now cleared in more than 80 percent of the country for a fall 2017 launch. The remaining magazine strips are all returning next season.

Elsewhere, Twentieth has been pitching a potential entry to stations called "Top 30" following a test-run last summer, which is described as a pop-culture show featuring aggregated videos. And "BOLD" (which stands for Broadcast Online Live Daily), a proposed live half hour from Tegna and MGM that draws content from social media and uses it to interact with viewers, has also been pitched, but there is no news on clearances for ether proposed strip.