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Hot 97’s Angie Martinez is looking to make the move into TV — and is targeting the syndication market, and the fall of 2014, as her entree into this crowded, highly competitive field.

Martinez has inked a deal with 44 Blue Productions, co-owned by former syndication exec Stephanie Drachkovitch, to pitch syndicators for a hoped-for talk show and other TV projects in which she will appear, develop or both.

“We’re developing a couple of different concepts; one of the first is going to be a talk format,” says Drachkovitch. “I think Angie could bring a really unique voice to daytime — and even to late-night, if someone wanted to do that.”

Martinez has been an on-air presence here for over 15 years, and is one of the city’s best-known radio personalities, known for her big “gets” (Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Lopez and President Obama among them). She’s also appeared on the big screen (“Paper Soldiers,” “Brown Sugar”).

During our talk, I mentioned to Drachkovitch that Martinez’s deal reminds me a bit of Wendy Williams, a onetime Hot 97 (later WBLS) personality who segued successfully into daytime TV (giving up her radio gig in the process).

“I wouldn’t compare Angie to Wendy Williams, who I love, by the way,” she says. “Angie’s [talk show] would be a little more lifestyle-oriented. Her interests go from celebrity interviews, which she has done for 20 years on the radio, to topics that impact women in general.

“She’s a single mom and is passionate about health and healthy cooking, especially with Latino food,” she says. “Her show wouldn’t be all celebrities but a mix of celebrity topics with lifestyle issues.

“Angie is a natural interviewer and a natural listener,” she says. “She has an amazing on-air presence and an amazing personal story.”

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Lost in all of Hallmark Channel’s upfront news last week was any mention of “Marie,” the network’s freshman daytime talk show hosted by Marie Osmond. The omission was glaring, especially since Hallmark did announce a second season for “Home & Family,” its other freshman daytime show hosted by Mark Steines and Cristina Ferrare (who replaced Paige Davis a month into the show’s run).

Ratings for “Marie” have been scattershot, at best, since its debut last October, when it aired at noon. It was subsequently moved to 10 a.m. — as the lead-out to “Home & Family” — then was cut back to four days a week. Now, it’s back at noon. (Follow the bouncing talk show.) “Marie” has averaged around 110,000 viewers, season-to-date, in its various timeslots.

In recent press releases, Hallmark Channel has taken great pains to point out that “Marie has all new shows for the remainder of the 2013 season” — which is strange wording in itself — and also announced the show is back in its noon timeslot. Sort of makes you wonder in a “Thou doth protest too much” kind of way.

“Programming is still evaluating the show and won’t have an answer until late April or May,” a Hallmark spokeswoman told me yesterday when I asked about the show’s future.

Stay tuned.

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Last, but not least:

* Last Friday’s World Cup Qualifier between Honduras and Mexico averaged 2.3 million viewers on Telemundo. Somewhere, Mozell Miley-Bailey smiles . . . “Fast N’ Loud” snared 2.2 million viewers Monday night on Discovery — its most-watched episode to date . . . “All In with Chris Hayes” premieres Monday, April 1 (8 p.m.) on MSNBC . . . Congrats to “Early Today”/MSNBC anchor Veronica De La Cruz on the arrival of Hartley Eric, named after Veronica’s late brother (who died in 2009).