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The CW Opts Not To Renew Affiliation Deals With Scripps-Owned Stations In Seven Markets
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Such is the danger of coming to premature conclusions, unfortunately.
There are three different kinds of CW affiliates:
- The news-intensive affiliates (eg, WPIX, KTLA, KRON, WISH and soon WGN) that brand almost exclusively at the station level. Outside of primetime, you'd be under the presumption that they are all indies.
- The affiliates that feature lengthy blocks of court shows, inc. those produced by Byron Allen, a smattering of trash TV talk shows and occasional sitcom reruns (KIAH, WPHL, KDAF, WLVI, KWGN, KPLR, WDCW, WUAB, the vast majority of Sinclair-owned CW affils, et al) that may or may not brand at the national level. Sometimes there are newscasts if they are a part of a duopoly or have a news-share agreement.
- The CW Plus, which has a mishmash of acquired programming across-the-board. Opt-out windows exist for local news.
Now that we have the new affiliates in the final 3 affected markets, here's a prediction, coming from me, about when will it end up on those stations:
KTTU: Will likely be the primary channel, while MNTV shares time with it or it goes to a subchannel
KCOY: Will likely be on a subchannel, unless if they want to move Telemundo into a subchannel, which they will most likely not do
KSCC: Will most likely be in a subchannel, because they won't take the risk of bumping Fox down to a subchannel just for CW to be the primary channel
KTTU: Will likely be the primary channel, while MNTV shares time with it or it goes to a subchannel
KCOY: Will likely be on a subchannel, unless if they want to move Telemundo into a subchannel, which they will most likely not do
KSCC: Will most likely be in a subchannel, because they won't take the risk of bumping Fox down to a subchannel just for CW to be the primary channel
It's confirmed that it will go to a subchannel
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Agreed, since Nexstar sees value in having that network on subchannels when necessary.
What is "Confess" on Ch. 18.7?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
As near as I can deduce from combining several search results, the full network name is "Confess by Nosey" 🙄 and consists of reruns of daytime schlock such as Maury Povich, Karamo Brown and The People’s Court.
I don't know about MNT on a .2 channel. Does KMSB/KTTU have enough syndicated product to fill a whole subchannel outside of the MNT block? Or, if they do this, will it be MNT with a diginet providing the rest of the schedule?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Maybe they will do the same thing as KMOV/4 in St. Louis, and fill the rest of the schedule with syndicated programming that probably can't be fit into their main channel schedule due to CBS network clearance commitments.
Here's a copy of their schedule for MNT on their .2, as of February 2023. I do not know if this is still what they are doing.
It works in Charlotte. They have so much programming on the .2 that My Network gets delayed to late night.
And it's only a .2 because the frequency for My Network was sold.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You lost me with that, chimp. Elaborate, if you would?
WMYT My Network Charlotte sold their RF station in the auction so they are on the RF station of Fox WJZY. It’s still WMYT 55.1 and not a -2 as he mentioned. It’s still 55-1
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Thanks for filling in that gap for me, Tony. I got so dizzy trying to follow the channel-sharing arrangements from the spectrum auction that I gave up on trying everywhere but my home market.
But it is technically a .2 channel of WJZY.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
No, it is "technically" channel 25.4, PSIP branded as 55.1 ... it's all there in the Rabbit Ears link.
There must be a term for that where you are saying that another station's main channel is a subchannel of someone else's.
Wait ... when did they move from 47?
Channel sharing assignment. One of the biggest ones is WNBC in NY. They are on the same RF channel as the Telemundo station but both stations still use their old numbering 4-1 for NBC and 47-1 for Telemundo)
Legally the call sign is WMYT so it is a separate station. Doesn’t matter that it’s housed on another stations RF number. Legally WYMT is a separate license from WJZY and could have a different owner (I know it doesn’t but the point being made). This happened a lot on the east coast with spectrum. Stations merged with sister stations and sold the spectrum.
Fox (the owner of the stations at the time) got 46.4 Million $$$$ for doing this (selling the spectrum to the FCC and merging WMYT onto WJZY’s spectrum). That happened in 2019
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