Crime Watch Daily
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| Also known as | Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen |
| Genre | Investigative newsmagazine |
| Created by | Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey |
| Presented by |
Matt Doran (Season 1) Chris Hansen (Season 2-present) |
| Composer(s) | Jason Brandt |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 190 (as of June 3, 2016) |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Lisa G. Productions Telepictures |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Syndication |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | September 14, 2015 – present |
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| Website | |
Crime Watch Daily is an American syndicated investigative news magazine series. Premiering on September 14, 2015, the program is currently hosted by veteran television journalist Chris Hansen. Produced by Telepictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution, it features a mix of investigative reports, true crime stories and caught-on-tape police and security footage.
The program showcases current and ongoing crime stories (including those surrounding unsolved murder and missing persons cases) and feature reports on undercover investigations from across the United States and around the world as well as limited coverage of ongoing court cases (as an example of such investigation segments, during the Crime Watch Daily's first week of episodes, the program showcased an undercover investigation into how Uber screens those applying for positions as drivers before being authorized and hired, revealing that the three applicants mentioned in the piece were convicted felons, who were cleared after their background checks were completed).
Franchise features fill the final three segments of each episode, which deal with other criminal cases and arrests, both of a serious and unusual nature:
Telepictures had previously produced a syndicated program with a similar format, Celebrity Justice, from which most of the staff and format of the TMZ online and television entertainment news platform arose out of; however, that program – which ran from 2002 to 2005 – focused more on celebrity legal issues than the reality/true crime focus which Crime Watch Daily is based around (though some notable non-celebrity true crime cases were covered on Celebrity Justice).
On September 15, 2014, Warner Bros. Television Distribution announced that it would order Crime Watch Daily for the 2015–16 season, with Tribune Broadcasting carrying the program on stations owned and/or operated by the group in 29 markets – covering 42% of the United States (including its three largest, CW affiliates WPIX/New York City, KTLA/Los Angeles and independent WGN-TV/Chicago) – most of which would air the program as a lead-in to their early-evening newscasts (Crime Watch Daily also airs on Tribune-run stations that either do not air any local news programming, or outsource news production to a co-owned or another local station). Through the distribution agreement with Tribune, the group also struck a news sharing partnership with the program to provide video content of crime stories filed by its news-producing stations.
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