tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 They must be souping up the station in time for Gray to come in. Anyone thought of that? All Raycom has to do is "surrender" the license of WUAB....right? "Cle 43" or "CW 43" can simply become WOIO 19.2. Given Gray's desire to spinoff excess stations in advance of their merger with Raycom, it's highly doubtful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 All Raycom has to do is "surrender" the license of WUAB....right? "Cle 43" or "CW 43" can simply become WOIO 19.2. Given Gray's desire to spinoff excess stations in advance of their merger with Raycom, it's highly doubtful. If it weren’t for WUAB taking The CW, I wouldn’t have been surprised if WUAB became “19 Plus”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 WUAB has wasted no time in promoting The CW: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Also, according to Cleveland 19 News, the 9pm hour will possibly get the “Unwired” treatment that the 4:30pm newscast gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4157 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Had the Sinclair-Tribune merger been cleared by now, I betcha Fox would be swooping in right now to buy WBNX and the MyTV affiliation away from WUAB (the latter for $1.98) and end up with a nifty duopoly in Cleveland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Another theory.... Retransmission Consent. If I'm reading the FCC file correctly, WBNX was classified as a "must carry" station all the way up to last year. Starting this year, they opted for retransmission Consent. If WBNX even balked at the cost of carrying the CW, it's almost certain that WUAB abd Raycom gave them a better deal. Plus, WUAB and WOIO have been on cable everywhere in the market forever while WBNX had to build up their viewership by "forcing" their way onto cable.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColDayNews 437 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 WUAB was available on cable here in Columbus until 2011... largely to compensate for the market's lack of a UPN affiliate, which dated back to the mid-1990s...Time Warner added it to the lineup because WTTE served as UPN until 1998 when NBC traded WWHO and WLWC to Paramount in exchange for WVIT. WTTE aired UPN stuff in undesirable timeslots which pissed the network off... so the network asked Time Warner to pipe in WUAB until they could get an affiliate in the market. It served as Columbus' de-facto UPN affiliate, as WWHO was still tied down to The WB and didn't run UPN until weekends, which lasted until 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Another theory.... Retransmission Consent. If I'm reading the FCC file correctly, WBNX was classified as a "must carry" station all the way up to last year. Starting this year, they opted for retransmission Consent. If WBNX even balked at the cost of carrying the CW, it's almost certain that WUAB abd Raycom gave them a better deal. Plus, WUAB and WOIO have been on cable everywhere in the market forever while WBNX had to build up their viewership by "forcing" their way onto cable.... If WBNX is asking for retransmission consent, then The CW leaving will only lead to spats with Spectrum pretty soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLETVFan 363 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Could WBNX lose any of the syndicated programming currently on the station? "Harry" is already going off the air, but what about the rest of the lineup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLETVFan 363 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 And had WBNX continued with the CW, they would have probably been stuck with it! Maybe WBNX pulled a WPGA because they felt the CW programming wasn't family-friendly enough... (Back in the independent days, they actually edited mild swear words like "god" "hell" and "damn" out of shows.....) I remember the days. That editing ruined a lot of shows they carried. It was hard watching "Martin" without all the "damns." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4157 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Could WBNX lose any of the syndicated programming currently on the station? "Harry" is already going off the air, but what about the rest of the lineup? If they couldn't afford to carry the CW, then affording to keep the existing first-run syndicated inventory is absolutely in question (depending on how much is barter or not). Remember when CBS Television Distribution pulled all of their shows off of WLNE and moved them to WNAC in the span of a few hours? It definitely could happen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 WUAB was available on cable here in Columbus until 2011... largely to compensate for the market's lack of a UPN affiliate, which dated back to the mid-1990s...Time Warner added it to the lineup because WTTE served as UPN until 1998 when NBC traded WWHO and WLWC to Paramount in exchange for WVIT. WTTE aired UPN stuff in undesirable timeslots which pissed the network off... so the network asked Time Warner to pipe in WUAB until they could get an affiliate in the market. It served as Columbus' de-facto UPN affiliate, as WWHO was still tied down to The WB and didn't run UPN until weekends, which lasted until 2000. Another reason may have been the dominant Cleveland Indians telecasts in the mid 90s. At one time, they were the highest rated in America. They went to cable in 2001 despite the objections of fans and even local politicians. Of course, with WUAB juggling both UPN and WB at the same time as this meant something had to give....and the WB left for WBNX in 1997. Had it not been for the New World deal that saw WJW go to FOX, WBNX could have remained the sleepy independent it used to be with old made-for-tv movies and ancient TV shows.... As for now, most of their daytime syndication is bottom of the barrel Byron Allen court shows...which is the equivalent of searching through the clearance section of Big Lots for DVDs.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 WUAB was available on cable here in Columbus until 2011... largely to compensate for the market's lack of a UPN affiliate, which dated back to the mid-1990s...Time Warner added it to the lineup because WTTE served as UPN until 1998 when NBC traded WWHO and WLWC to Paramount in exchange for WVIT. WTTE aired UPN stuff in undesirable timeslots which pissed the network off... so the network asked Time Warner to pipe in WUAB until they could get an affiliate in the market. It served as Columbus' de-facto UPN affiliate, as WWHO was still tied down to The WB and didn't run UPN until weekends, which lasted until 2000. You do know that WUAB was on all Columbus cable outlets back in the 80s and 90s as well before UPN/WB, The CBS/FOX shuffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColDayNews 437 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 You do know that WUAB was on all Columbus cable outlets back in the 80s and 90s as well before UPN/WB, The CBS/FOX shuffle. Time Warner in Dayton didn’t add it until the mid 1990s - Dayton was served under Time Warner Mid-Ohio with Columbus until the early 2000s and being reorganized to Cincinnati. I recall getting WUAB, WCMH, WBNS and WWHO with Cincy and Dayton locals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 The netlets and syndex rules were the beginning of the end for the smaller "superstations" like WUAB and WTTV. Given the lack of signals in the Columbus market, WUAB was more of a necessity. Digital TV, subchannels, and the end of free sports on TV contributed to it's demise. Meanwhile, the Ernest Angley ministry has been pumping out the "Ernest Angley Hour" for decades, even before WBNX and their purchase of Rex Humbard's former complex that they all own except for the unfinished tower.... I think it airs on one of the religious channels on Directv, and episodes can be viewed on YouTube. The entertainment value alone of the bad singing and lip-syncing is enough to watch.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Meanwhile, the Ernest Angley ministry has been pumping out the "Ernest Angley Hour" for decades, even before WBNX and their purchase of Rex Humbard's former complex that they all own except for the unfinished tower.... Not to mention all three of their programs stink and are still produced in SD. Remember when CBS Television Distribution pulled all of their shows off of WLNE and moved them to WNAC in the span of a few hours? It definitely could happen here. As of 2018, out of those three shows, only Inside Edition has gone back to WLNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 746 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 What would WUAB even put on the MyNetworkTV channel? That would be weird. I think WOIO/WUAB should just get W16DO and the rights to WBNX's license. Oh, I posted on the Winston page the new WBNX lineup after the CW leaves. 3pm will be filled with "Dateline" repeats, 8pm with a full hour of "The King of Queens," and two episodes of "Funny You Should Ask" will get a full hour at 9pm. It's entire latenight lineup will either move up, double up, or move around. All on the schedule page of WBNX's website (wbnx.com/schedule). Keep in mind also that WBNX has rights to a lot of Jack Hanna programming, including every single episode of Animal Adventures. Don't be surprised if that fills up Saturday mornings now that the CW will be on WUAB. According to the station's TitanTV page, the One Magnificent Morning lineup will be replaced by four extra episodes of Animal Adventures (from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.), followed by an additional episode of the Canadian family drama Heartland (which WBNX already airs at 1:00 p.m. Sundays). TitanTV appears to have also unveiled WBNX's post-CW logo, which is just the existing one, eliminating the CW emblem and introducing a new slogan: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2876 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 According to the station's TitanTV page, the One Magnificent Morning lineup will be replaced by four extra episodes of Animal Adventures (from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.), followed by an additional episode of the Canadian family drama Heartland (which WBNX already airs at 1:00 p.m. Sundays). TitanTV appears to have also unveiled WBNX's post-CW logo, which is just the existing one, eliminating the CW emblem and introducing a new slogan: Why did they feel the need to capitalize the G in ToGether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4157 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Meanwhile, the Ernest Angley ministry has been pumping out the "Ernest Angley Hour" for decades, even before WBNX and their purchase of Rex Humbard's former complex that they all own except for the unfinished tower.... I think it airs on one of the religious channels on Directv, and episodes can be viewed on YouTube. The entertainment value alone of the bad singing and lip-syncing is enough to watch.... Is "The Ernest Angley Hour" still carried on Canadian TV? I remember seeing it on listings for Global TV Toronto back in the early 90s... Not to mention all three of their programs stink and are still produced in SD. That's the entertainment value of the show in a nutshell, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4157 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 TitanTV appears to have also unveiled WBNX's post-CW logo, which is just the existing one, eliminating the CW emblem and introducing a new slogan: Oh. My. God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 According to the station's TitanTV page, the One Magnificent Morning lineup will be replaced by four extra episodes of Animal Adventures (from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.), followed by an additional episode of the Canadian family drama Heartland (which WBNX already airs at 1:00 p.m. Sundays). TitanTV appears to have also unveiled WBNX's post-CW logo, which is just the existing one, eliminating the CW emblem and introducing a new slogan: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 According to the station's TitanTV page, the One Magnificent Morning lineup will be replaced by four extra episodes of Animal Adventures (from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.), followed by an additional episode of the Canadian family drama Heartland (which WBNX already airs at 1:00 p.m. Sundays). TitanTV appears to have also unveiled WBNX's post-CW logo, which is just the existing one, eliminating the CW emblem and introducing a new slogan: It’s not a new slogan. They’ve been using this slogan since about 2017. However, they’ve modified the typeface to look less “CW”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 Surely they must have this floating around in the archives.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLETVFan 363 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 For those wondering, here's WBNX's new weekday lineup starting on July 16th. 6:00am Top 30 6:30am Business First with Angela Miles 7:00am The Verdict with Judge Hatchett 7:30am Justice with Judge Mablean 8:00am Harry 9:00am The Ninety and Nine Club 10:00am The Verdict with Judge Hatchett 10:30am Justice with Judge Mablean 11:00am Judge Faith 11:30am Judge Faith 12:00pm Divorce Court 12:30pm Divorce Court 1:00pm Couples Court with the Cutlers 1:30pm Couples Court with the Cutlers 2:00pm Lauren Lake's Paternity Court 2:30pm Lauren Lake's Paternity Court 3:00pm Dateline 4:00pm Dateline 5:00pm Last Man Standing 5:30pm The Goldbergs 6:00pm Mike and Molly 6:30pm Mike and Molly 7:00pm The Goldbergs 7:30pm Last Man Standing 8:00pm The King of Queens 8:30pm The King of Queens 9:00pm Funny You Should Ask 9:30pm Funny You Should Ask 10:00pm Top 30 10:30pm Pawn Stars 11:00pm Pawn Stars 11:30pm Dish Nation 12:00am The Balancing Act 12:30am Cops 1:00am Killer Mysteries 1:30am Corrupt Crimes 2:00am Cops 2:30am Forensic Files 3:00am King of the Hill 3:30am Rules of Engagement 4:00am Rules of Engagement 4:30am The Balancing Act 5:00am Harry BOLD=New time/second run Looks like TV55 is turning to Kevin James, Dateline, and a bunch of comedians to fill the void left by The CW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLETVFan 363 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 WBNX's Saturday lineup starting on July 21st. 6:00am Marty Stouffer's Wild America 6:30am Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures 7:00am Jack Hanna's Into the Wild 7:30am Pets.TV 8:00am Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures 8:30am Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures 9:00am Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures 9:30am Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures 10:00am Heartland 11:00am High School Sports Insider 11:30am Sports Stars of Tomorrow 12:00pm Movie 2:00pm Movie 4:00pm Movie 6:00pm Just for Laughs Gags 6:30pm Just for Laughs Gags 7:00pm Mike and Molly 7:30pm The Goldbergs 8:00pm Movie 10:00pm Bones 11:00pm Bones 12:00am Elementary 1:00am Rookie Blue 2:00am Rookie Blue 3:00am Movie 5:00am The X-Files WBNX's Sunday lineup as of July 22nd. 6:00am On the Money 6:30am Beautiful Homes and Great Estates 7:00am Laura McKenzie's Traveler 7:30am Open House 8:00am Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls 8:30am Designing Spaces 9:00am Military Makeover 9:30am HouseSmarts with Lou Manfredini 10:00am Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford 10:30am America's Heartland 11:00am The Ernest Angley Hour 12:00pm Small Town Big Deal 12:30pm Positively Paula 1:00pm Heartland 2:00pm Movie 4:00pm Just for Laughs Gags 4:30pm Just for Laughs Gags 5:00pm The King of Queens 5:30pm Rules of Engagement 6:00pm Rules of Engagement 6:30pm The King of Queens 7:00pm Mike and Molly 7:30pm The Goldbergs 8:00pm Movie 10:00pm Last Man Standing 10:30pm Last Man Standing 11:00pm Mike and Molly 11:30pm Mike and Molly 12:00am Funny You Should Ask 12:30am Just for Laughs Gags 1:00am Elementary 2:00am Sheriffs El Dorado County 2:30am Sheriffs El Dorado County 3:00am The X-Files 4:00am Haven 5:00am Bob's Burgers 5:30am Bob's Burgers BOLD=Time change/second or additional run Not too much change on weekends. Just plugging some holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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