CircleSeven 1944 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Well this is not an "earth-shattering" switch by any means. B&C announced tonight that Adell Broadcastinng's Independent WADL 38 will take over Detroit's MyNetworkTV affiliation from Scripps-owned WMYD 20. This will go in effect on September 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 WADL still has that crappy signal, so MNT will lose some viewers in the western and southern fringes of the Detroit DMA. https://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=25076ff3710e9a2601711d33d46c30e9&site=1&dma=N&map=Y&contour=Y&int=N&pop=N&incpop=&excpop=&z1=N&nrqz=N&lprw=N&head=Y&asrn=&extras=2040150&cir=&circen= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glimmer 238 Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 This strikes me less as WADL making a steal and more Scripps not renewing MNT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2034 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 I'm sure WMYD (or whatever new calls they get) will be just fine; they'll just expand the newscasts from 7 Action News through primetime, and this will likely show if other non-subchannel combos Scripps has will take the same direction. You assume WADL finally broke down and got an affiliation because WDIV now really has no ability to pre-empt NBC programming and move it to another station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3410 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 MyNetworkTV is pretty much a brand for independent tv stations with rerun block in primetime. Scripps probably let them walk so they may have bigger plans for WMYD to expand their news output, powered by WXYZ and Newsy. It wouldn't surprise me if Scripps let their CW/MyNetwork affiliations lapse in favor of news-heavy independence by their news-producing counterparts. Same goes for any duopoly opportunities they have in existing markets, whether or not they sold an Ion station or two to Inyo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 794 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 WADL could of been CBS, but wasn't happy with CBS terms back in 1994. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 529 Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 19 hours ago, Glimmer said: This strikes me less as WADL making a steal and more Scripps not renewing MNT I wouldn't blame them one bit for that. It's not like MyTV was moving the needle in order for them to pay for the service. Thus frees up a bit of cash and they could easily shift one of their diginets on there to replace MyTV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatron81 177 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Or air what WXYZ aired early in the day in primetime on TV20 just my opinion. I wonder if Scripps will say what they will be doing with TV20 closer to the Fall? Maybe NEWSY takes over TV20 just have to wait and see not that I care since I don't live in the Detroit market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnothy 43 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 I've never thought the two hour primetime rerun block was worth branding a whole station with the "My" designation. Some of the stations now delay the two hour block to later at night. I've never watched their programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankees4life 529 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 1 hour ago, johnothy said: I've never thought the two hour primetime rerun block was worth branding a whole station with the "My" designation. Some of the stations now delay the two hour block to later at night. I've never watched their programming. It's been a long while. Smackdown was still around the last time I watched.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatron81 177 Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 WXSP has always been branded The X with Mynet colors since 2006 launch. When Nexstar did a preview of News Nation they would put an hour of My Net shows at 2AM or when they aired Griffin's games in the winter as well since the fans couldn't be in the stands or not many they aired more Griffin games this year than they have since WXSP signed on the air in the fall of 99. Only time they ever really aired Griffin games was when they were in the championship game otherwise they don't air Griffin hockey all that much as they want fans in the stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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