AmericaJR.com - Detroit, MI, USA - On Wednesday, talk show host Jerry Springer brought his college tour to Detroit and spoke to students at Wayne State University. He showed clips from his daytime talk show, discussed them and took questions from the audience. Springer also added some political commentary at the end. He stayed later to sign autographs and meet students at the university.

Springer, 64, is the current host of the popular Jerry Springer Show, which is aired at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays on WMYD-TV, Channel 20 in Detroit. He is also the host of America's Got Talent, a reality-competition program which will air

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - America's Got Talent revealed its Top 4 second-season finalists during last night's broadcast of the NBC reality competition series.

America's Got Talent 2's final performance show began with host Jerry Springer bringing the Top 8 finalists -- who were revealed during last week's broadcast that eliminated Top 10 finalists The Calypso Tumblers and The Duttons -- onto the stage.

Springer then revealed America's Got Talent 2's Top 4 finalists one at a time, allowing each the chance to perform immediately after he told them they were safe based on viewer votes cast after last week's episode

Once the Top 4 finalists -- Antoinette

Reuters - USA - NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has renewed its veteran talkers "The Jerry Springer Show" and "Maury" through September 2010 on the Tribune and Sinclair broadcast station groups.

Tribune stations carrying "Springer," which is heading into its 17th season in the fall, include WPIX New York, KTLA Los Angeles, WPHL Philadelphia, KDAF Dallas, WDCW Washington and KHCW Houston. Sinclair stations include WPGH Pittsburgh, WTTE Columbus, Ohio, and WSTR Cincinnati.

Tribune stations extending "Maury," going into its 10th season in the fall, include WPIX New York, KTLA Los Angeles, WGN Chicago, WPHL Philadelphia, KDAF Dallas, WDCW Washington and KHCW Houston. Sinclair stations include WPGH

TV Squad - Santa Monica, CA, USA - That sound you hear is the planet dying, just a little bit.

The syndicated talk shows (and I use that term very, very loosely) Jerry Springer and Maury have been renewed through the 2010 season. Yes, that's right, for three more seasons. Springer will start its 17th season this fall and Maury its 10th.

That means we'll have three more glorious seasons of actors ordinary citizens throwing chairs at each other and wrestling and three more intriguing years of morons ordinary citizens taking paternity tests to see if they're the father of a woman's baby.

I hope you're proud of yourselves watching these

Broadcasting & Cable (subscription) - New York, NY, USA - Jerry Springer's show may be getting a ratings boost due to Springer replacing Regis Philbin as the host of network game show America's Got Talent.

In the latest syndication ratings from Nielsen for the week ending July 1, Springer was the only nationally-rated talk show to improve over the week before. It was up 7% to a 1.6-- his best rating in five weeks.

Not yet nationally cleared talker, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, continued to pick up steam and viewers. It's up 8% from the week before and up 17% from two weeks ago to a 1.4 rating/5 share

Bend Weekly - Bend, OR, USA - "I don't have any talent, and I'm not being modest - I don't sing, I don't dance - so I think many of the contestants on 'America's Got Talent' can relate to me," laughed Jerry Springer, smooth and comfortable in Hollywood.

His strengths as the host of the three-ring circus known as "America's Got Talent" were refined during his 17 years (and counting) in syndication with "The Jerry Springer Show" by instructing security guards to break up the fisticuffs of love triangles composed of obese, tattooed and toothless individuals of all genders.

"The judges (cheeseburger lover David Hasselhoff, professional English rocker wife

News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO, USA - Tonight's Must-See: "America's Got Talent" season-opener, 8-10 p.m., NBC.
After being an amiable hit last summer, this show is back. It's a wide-open competition, with few limits.

The changes should be improvements: Jerry Springer replaces Regis Philbin as host; Sharon Osbourne replaces Brandy as a judge, alongside Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff.

Tonight's Must-See II: "MI-5," 7 and 8 p.m., BBC America (rerunning at 10 p.m. and midnight); "The Shield," 10 p.m. FX.

Reality TV World - Mansfield, MA, USA - "There's a lot of diversity," said Springer during a Wednesday conference call with reporters, discussing America's Got Talent's second season hopefuls. "Clearly there are a lot of singers, but boy, there's a whole bunch of other stuff too, from magicians to ventriloquists to jugglers... Some amazing acts frankly. I haven't seen television like this since the old variety shows. That does seem to be the magic of this show. This really is the old-time Ed Sullivan variety show, or when I was a kid, it was The Ted Mack Amateur Hour... It's really kind of neat