{"id":319,"date":"2014-08-03T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbbz.tv\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:50:46","slug":"neal-sabin-knows-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbbz.tv\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Neal Sabin knows a hit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Neal Sabin knows a hit television series when he sees it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Not the one-hit wonders, or this season&#39;s sensation, but the shows that endure for viewing after viewing, year after year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Neal is the driving force behind all the classic television shows you see on WBBZ-TV. &nbsp;This fall, you will be able to watch &quot;The Andy Griffith Show&quot; at 8 &amp; 8:30p.m. starting September 1st, in addition to some other great classics. &nbsp;Stay tuned for the release of our Fall schedule soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Now in his 20th year at Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, a small, family-owned television station group, Sabin has staked his career on the likes of &quot;Gilligan&#39;s Island&quot; and &quot;Leave It to Beaver,&quot; by knowing exactly which shows play well in perpetuity and how to make them must-see TV decades after their original run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">As the programming mastermind behind Weigel&#39;s Me-TV, he has parlayed his acumen and sensibility into a burgeoning television network, linking previously obscure digital subchannels &mdash; the stations up in the 200s and 300s on the cable box &mdash; into a national powerhouse that regularly beats most cable networks in the ratings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: schoolbook-web, georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Read more here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eicoff.com\/drtv-news\/drtv-news\/neal-sabin-the-programming-mastermind-behind-me-tv\">&nbsp;http:\/\/www.eicoff.com\/drtv-news\/drtv-news\/neal-sabin-the-programming-mastermind-behind-me-tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Sabin knows a hit television series when he sees it. 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