“Let’s Play Crosswords” Clears Major Cities

Cynopsis announced that Merv Griffin’s new game show venture, “Let’s Play Crosswords” has cleared by NBC O&O’s (owned and operated stations) in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Dallas as part of a new deal with the show. The new deal involves NBCU Domestic Television Distribution to represent national barter advertising sales and the entities to jointly create a broadband component for the NBC stations’ web sites. As of now, it’s looking like it’ll tape in WMAQ in Chicago, but plans are still up in the air. Check back to BuzzerBlog often as we’ll have exclusive reports about “Let’s Play Crosswords” in the future that you can’t get anywhere else but here.