Maybe they can cut a deal with Kaiser Aluminum to get back in the TV business by buying KVEA-TV channel 52 and restoring the KBSC call letters to that station. It could carry the CW in prime time and "Kimba The White Lion" reruns in the afternoon.
Fox also had a newsmagizine show called "The Reporters" back around 1988.
Yes I forgot about that one I do remember that during their early days on Saturday nights.
Saw that clip with "The Reporters" Steve Wilson later became a reporter for WXYZ-TV Detroit and Jim Paymar just left KRON San Francisco around the time of the clip.
Agreed given that Paramount have 12.5% and WarnerDiscovery have 12.5% ownerships in the CW. Some of this is because both Paramount and WarnerDiscovery have to protect their TV apps like Paramount+ and HBO Max.
They occasionally have some fun scripted shows and a few other things. If nothing else, they do have quite a few hours a week of original shows and they contribute to the variety of new productions in that area. Also, without them there would be hundreds of vampires and superheroes out of work.
KUSI had a chance, first by going after Fox (and lost), then went with UPN (and eventually dropped them). Any further chances of KUSI going after a network is slim to none.
unless a major station group makes a takeover bid like Sinclair, Gray, Hearst, or even a smaller player, like Graham, Weigel, Morris, News-Press Gazette, or Bakahel. If Nexstar converts some Fox affiliates to CW, Fox might look at KUSI. A station group gets scale in leverage and size in carriage negotiations and syndication purchases. Does everyone as big as Sinclair or Gray attempted to buy Capitol Broadcasting, Griffin Communications, Sunbeam, Graham or even the non-subchannel stations of Weigel Broadcasting?
Even in this streaming infusec enviroment, I doubt all 5 SDTV station get a network or MNTV moving to KUSI's primetime lineup. Of course not every family owned broadcaster gives up their long standings business. We seen KFMB sold to Tegna in 2017 from family owned Midwest TV and a year later a college admissions scandal in 2019 nearly defamed them from the tv industry, that same year Tegna bought another family owned broadcaster Dispatch Media Group adding Indianapolis and Columbus Ohio. Gray TV had some experience buying family owned broadcasters with Quincy Media being the most recent in 2021. If the streaming thunderstorms hit the hometown of California so far, the internet might be the end of independent or family-owned ownership.
Same as Fox as well but a late night show might fill the 11pm-midnight slot.
Fox wasn't successful at late night so what makes you think The CW would fare any better with a network late night show??
And if McKinnon wanted to take The CW affiliation for KUSI, doesn't anyone think they would've done so once The CW left the old XETV instead of letting it go to KFMB 8.2 ??
Above all else, it’s content for stations that would otherwise have next to nothing else to run in primetime, especially with the decline of syndicated programming in the industry. Very few stations are capable of running local news in primetime unless you are in a large market and have the resources (KCAL, WHDH, WJXT, KRON and KTVK are the most prominent of examples).
And Buffy wouldn't have any vampires to slay
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