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Not all CW stations will carry Liv Golf

Somewhere I read the first weekend of the LIV Golf on the CW was a ratings disaster. I'm too lazay to look up the article. I would say they should pull the plug on this turkey, but CW is owned by NexStar the turkeys who continue to run NewsNation despite it being a ratings disaster as well. - There you go. Put the LIV Golf on NewsNation. After all most of their weekend programming is still leftovers from WGN America.
 
They averaged a 0.2 rating opening weekend but now they are saying they hit 3 over 3 million viewers so they have to be lying that anybody would be watching this garbage plus not all CW stations are carrying it as they refuse to carry it.


As far as NewsNation goes they said by the end of 2023 weekdays will be all News Monday through Friday and by the end of 2024 the network will be all news on the weekends when they had their earnings call when talking about The CW and taking over and going cheaper to have more reality programming and to air more sports for the CW.
 
That NewsNation 24/5 timeline has bumped up significantly with the very recent signing of The Hill as a new daytime partner starting in April. That will just leave 18 hours on the weekends (still lots of room for LIV Golf)
 
CaliRadioFan said:
That NewsNation 24/5 timeline has bumped up significantly with the very recent signing of The Hill as a new daytime partner starting in April. That will just leave 18 hours on the weekends (still lots of room for LIV Golf)
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Yes it will. I just read that It won't be till the end of 2024 that the weekends will be all news but it will be towards the end of 2023 when the weekdays will be all news during the weekdays.

Starting this Monday their morning news will run till Noon so they will only have 4 hours of Blue Bloods on from Noon to 4pm starting on Monday.

I'm not sure if things will change again in April when Elizabeth Vargas joins in April or if she will take a spot in primetime and Rush Hour gets trimmed to an hour.
 
Elizabeth Vargas is slotted for 6pm Eastern and no start date for them yet, but The Hill is set to run the show for 4 hours from their DC Headquarters. This is a web site oft sourced by other news outlets, so this could be a real shot in the arm for NewsNation.

 
FYI, TheHill was acquired by Nexstar in summer 2021. So not really a "partnership" any more than a report from Nexstar's station in Albany airing on NewsNation is a partnership.
 
Mgomrjsurf said:
No TCT KC area for Nexstar to buy but would give them a secondary channel to show programming on and no need to combined KMBC/FOX4KC but sharing KCWE/FOX4KC maybe just Newscast.
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Plus Nexstar owned CW affiliates like KWGN 2 here in Denver will do whatever Nexstar & the CW wants them to do because now that Nexstar (At least essentially) owns the CW, it's essentially a CW O&O now
 
tvnut said:
The Chicago situation has nothing to do with CBS or Tegna. CW affiliate WCIU is owned by Weigel Broadcasting. WGN is owned by CW majority-owner Nexstar. WCIU has some other sports conflicts for some weeks, CW wants consistency in coverage, plus wants sports on WGN, so put it there. Plenty of CW promos today for shows that run on WCIU.
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Tegna doesn't even own a station in Chicago (Or Detroit for that matter) anyway as WDIV is owned by Graham Media while WKBD is oned bt CBS/Paramount
 
TheBigA said:
We were discussing this story this morning, and the view was that this TV contract with the CW played a part in the negotiations. Especially with CBS stations dropping their CW affiliations.
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I wonder if the CW stations that are dropped to go independent this fall are still going independent or if they are going to rethink their decision now that they have merged together.

And if other stations that haven't carried the LIV Golf will begin to carry it at some point.
 
Cool_guy81 said:
And if other stations that haven't carried the LIV Golf will begin to carry it at some point.
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From what I see, they are only talking about the rest of this year:


“This is an exciting day to unify and grow the game of golf. There is no change to the LIV Golf event schedule for 2023 on The CW. We look forward to broadcasting seven more exciting tournaments this year featuring the world’s best golfers,” a The CW said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
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