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2 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

Gray CW affiliates could plug in whatever’s airing on Circle or go the local news route, depending on market size. Or backfill with cheapo syndication like MyTV as an interim.

 

Their local stations are so understaffed that they are already as stretched as they can be.

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4 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

I’d be surprised if you don’t see Gray, Scripps, Sinclair and CBS just cut ties with the CW outright. Not because of LIV but because those groups all have their own in-house options to replace the primetime block.

 

LIV merely greased the skids.

 

I mean, I'm pretty sure that the stations news ops. talked about what happened with the Washington Post murder. So imagine a few years later they promote the Saudi-funded golf games.....you would see a field day of people calling them out. 

 

So if they don't want to suffer the price of the affiliation motherlord's dark ambitions....this is the way to go.

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I would be surprised if Paramount cut ties with CW on their stations. I bet the sale of the network to Nexstar it had something about not pulling the affiliation for a certain length of time or something similar. 

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10 hours ago, Drew said:

I would be surprised if Paramount cut ties with CW on their stations. I bet the sale of the network to Nexstar it had something about not pulling the affiliation for a certain length of time or something similar. 

There actually exists legitimate provisions in affiliate contracts in case the network was ever sold (no, I do not have them on hand, but it was discussed on Discord a few months ago).

 

Despite the nominal 12.5% stake, Paramount really doesn’t need the CW anymore.

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8 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

There actually exists legitimate provisions in affiliate contracts in case the network was ever sold (no, I do not have them on hand, but it was discussed on Discord a few months ago).

 

Despite the nominal 12.5% stake, Paramount really doesn’t need the CW anymore.

Both Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery have their own streaming services.  They both don't need The CW at all.  "All American" can easily move to either of the services.

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2 hours ago, CLETVFan said:

Both Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery have their own streaming services.  They both don't need The CW at all.  "All American" can easily move to either of the services.

 

Wouldn't the profit participants have something to say about that?

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4 hours ago, CLETVFan said:

Both Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery have their own streaming services.  They both don't need The CW at all.  "All American" can easily move to either of the services.

It's part of the CW's old Netflix deal so it would easily move there without issue. I do think that Nexstar only really renewed not based on the loyalty of the show (which is great since it has a just as loyal spin-off), but to avoid minority scrutiny if they didn't have a 'black' show somewhere. 🙄  This is a company that's had major issues with their minority-owned shells, after all.

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On 1/20/2023 at 7:28 PM, Myron Falwell said:

Gray CW affiliates could plug in whatever’s airing on Circle or go the local news route, depending on market size. Or backfill with cheapo syndication like MyTV as an interim.

ie… WUAB could go back to its pre-CW scheduling (CLE43 II: Electric Boogaloo).

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32 minutes ago, NEOMatrix said:

ie… WUAB could go back to its pre-CW scheduling (CLE43 II: Electric Boogaloo).

The Mannix and Cannon fans who have their shows pre-empted on WOIO's .2 would love this to happen. Of all the places to burn off MyNet, why choose the Me sub?

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IF The CW bolts WUAB for WJW 8.2 (or even, heaven forbid, Nexstar buys WBNX to make them a CW O&O)....WUAB would probably morph into 19+, since it's basically been the overrun station for WOIO, and the patent disregard of WUAB itself goes all the way back to Raycom...

 

It's best hope now is to be a news-intensive station to compete against WJW.

 

Then again, if WUAB gets stripped of the CW for WJW, it would leave BOTH WUAB and WBNX without affiliations.

 

The upfronts are going to be REAL interesting this spring....what will Nexstar have up it's sleeve?

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12 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

IF The CW bolts WUAB for WJW 8.2 (or even, heaven forbid, Nexstar buys WBNX to make them a CW O&O)....WUAB would probably morph into 19+, since it's basically been the overrun station for WOIO, and the patent disregard of WUAB itself goes all the way back to Raycom...

 

It's best hope now is to be a news-intensive station to compete against WJW.

 

Then again, if WUAB gets stripped of the CW for WJW, it would leave BOTH WUAB and WBNX without affiliations.

 

The upfronts are going to be REAL interesting this spring....what will Nexstar have up it's sleeve?

WBNX does have better programming than WUAB right now.  It will be interesting to see what 43 would plan in case the CW moves to 8.2 (or, less likely, 8.1 to displace Fox).

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23 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

IF The CW bolts WUAB for WJW 8.2 (or even, heaven forbid, Nexstar buys WBNX to make them a CW O&O)....WUAB would probably morph into 19+, since it's basically been the overrun station for WOIO, and the patent disregard of WUAB itself goes all the way back to Raycom...

 

It's best hope now is to be a news-intensive station to compete against WJW.

 

Then again, if WUAB gets stripped of the CW for WJW, it would leave BOTH WUAB and WBNX without affiliations.

 

The upfronts are going to be REAL interesting this spring....what will Nexstar have up it's sleeve?

Could also see CW move to WGHP 8.2 and WNCN 11.2. WCWG would become an Indy and could change calls. MyNet could move to WLFL and WRDC could be sold off or maybe Charge could take over 28.1.

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On 1/21/2023 at 11:16 PM, mrschimpf said:

The Mannix and Cannon fans who have their shows pre-empted on WOIO's .2 would love this to happen. Of all the places to burn off MyNet, why choose the Me sub?

WOIO-WUAB's MyNet contract is the Bobby Bonilla of Cleveland television affiliation deals.

 

On 1/21/2023 at 11:55 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

IF The CW bolts WUAB for WJW 8.2 (or even, heaven forbid, Nexstar buys WBNX to make them a CW O&O)....WUAB would probably morph into 19+, since it's basically been the overrun station for WOIO, and the patent disregard of WUAB itself goes all the way back to Raycom...

 

It's best hope now is to be a news-intensive station to compete against WJW.

 

Then again, if WUAB gets stripped of the CW for WJW, it would leave BOTH WUAB and WBNX without affiliations.

 

The upfronts are going to be REAL interesting this spring....what will Nexstar have up it's sleeve?

Moving the CW to a WJW sub would be smart. Unfortunately, this is Nexstar, and they'd probably wind up dumping the Fox affiliation for the CW.

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On 1/21/2023 at 9:30 PM, EVVTV12 said:

Streaming? That’s just a fad. Betamax, that is the future.  

"Why do people want those darn videotape players? It's stealing our content and a chance for us to make even money"

-- Perry Sook, found of Nexstar International Telephone, Telegraph and Phonograph

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6 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

WOIO-WUAB's MyNet contract is the Bobby Bonilla of Cleveland television affiliation deals.

 

Moving the CW to a WJW sub would be smart. Unfortunately, this is Nexstar, and they'd probably wind up dumping the Fox affiliation for the CW.

I don't think Nexstar is that stupid to put stations like "FOX 8" in jeopardy....

 

Then again, they lost all those Fox affiliatons about a decade ago (of which they got back the one in Fort Wayne and bought their way back in Springfield)

 

And lest we forget about poor WJMN....

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On 1/23/2023 at 12:57 AM, Myron Falwell said:

WOIO-WUAB's MyNet contract is the Bobby Bonilla of Cleveland television affiliation deals.

 

Moving the CW to a WJW sub would be smart. Unfortunately, this is Nexstar, and they'd probably wind up dumping the Fox affiliation for the CW.

“Cleveland’s Own Channel 8”

 

Nexstar would be doubly stupid to basically gift wrap the Fox affiliation to WUAB.

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In an alternate universe, let's say that Gray screws the pooch with CBS and a station formerly known as "CBS 46".
If that brought down their affiliation with WOIO, it could potentially reverse the swap from 1994 where Fox returns to "Nineteen" and CBS "comes home" to WJW TV8.

Then again, that may put WJW's standing in jeopardy, since much of their success has been at counter-programming the networks (even in CBS's waning days, pre-empting parts of the CBS schedule, and pushing David Letterman ahead an hour)

 

Bottom line, unless the station is a dog to begin with, I don't think Nexstar is going to push aside a major affiliation at their behest.  Now if the network pulls it, that's another story.,

 

Remember that WTTV was prepared to push The CW to 4.2 after they secured the CBS affiliation.  Tribune relented and sold it to WISH. 

Nexstar may easily take it back should their deal be up at WISH.

 

Columbus would be a coup as well if WCMH puts it on at 4.2 since it would give them another station to compete against the gaggle of Sinclair stations they've assembled.  Might even force Steven Mumblow to give up on "WWHO" if they get stripped of The CW.  WWHO itself is the 3.0 station for the market where the 1.0 resides on WTTE's spectrum.

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12 hours ago, NEOMatrix said:

“Cleveland’s Own Channel 8”

 

Nexstar would be doubly stupid to basically gift wrap the Fox affiliation to WUAB.


Fox is basically a sports programming service with a forgettable primetime block of crappy reality shows—including 33 different shows that Gordon Ramsey can scream in and 9 different iterations of The Masked Singer (a fad that has long passed its expiration date)—and The Simpsons and Family Guy, two shows that will never die. That might be the goal Nexstar has for the CW, but they’ll never get anything close to the NFL or MLB.

 

So why NOT turn the station into a O&O for a sports programming service that you own?

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