• April 15, 2003

The Fox Television Stations have acquired Universal Domestic Television's "Crossing Over with John Edward" for fall 2003, when it enters its third season in national broadcast syndication. UDT President Steve Rosenberg made the announcement today. The Fox stations, covering nine of the top-20 markets, will serve as the core broadcast group for "Crossing Over" during the 2003-04 season. Fox stations signing on for the series are WNYW/WWOR New York, KTTV/KCOP Los Angeles, WPWR/WFLD Chicago, WTXF Philadelphia, KDFW/KDFI Dallas, WTTG/WDCA Washington, D.C., KTXH/KRIV Houston, KSAZ/KUTP Phoenix and WOLF/WRBW Orlando. Airing from 2-3 p.m. weekdays on WNYW, the show in February posted the station's best performance in the time period among women 18-49 since 1993 and the biggest February women 25-54 numbers on record. In fact, the program harvested WNYW's highest women 25-54 rating in the hour in any major sweeps period since at least November 1985. Additionally, "Crossing Over" on WNYW climbed substantially in February from its lead-in, leaping 57% among women 18-49 and 75% in women 25-54. It also earned the station's best rating among women 18-49 for all strips airing between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., and was the top strip among women 25-54 from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. "Crossing Over" is the first original daily syndicated series appearing both on broadcast stations and basic cable, as well as the first to be hosted by a psychic medium. Second runs of the syndicated version of the program air at 11 p.m. Monday-Wednesday on The SCI FI Channel .