How many years does Tegna have a CW affiliation contract?
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CBS owned CW affiliates to drop CW affiliation and go independent
- Thread starter nelsonincharlotte
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Can’t see MyNet going away completely in any market. It’s pointless but as long as it’s around someone will pick it up. That’s 10 hours a week that the station doesn’t have to program.
Either that or it will be Family Feud mini-marathons in primetime like WAXN does.
On Station Id's COL part sure but in San Francisco it would have to be branded either KPIX+ and CBS Bay Area+ given that it is an extension of the main CBS Affiliate. Note I only gave the proposed examples for KMAX, KBCW, WKBD, WPCW, WPSG given that they are part of a Duopoly with the main CBS affiliate in those cities.
WUPA, WTOG and KSTW are the wild card here given that these stations could not just rebrand themselves as CBS Atlanta+, CBS Seattle + and CBS Tampa +.
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Can Mission Broadcasting step in and take over WUPA, WTOG and KSTW? This is like how WPIX New York where TV station license is owned by Mission Broadcasting the Station Manager is an employee of Mission and Nexstar steps in and hires the News Director + production staff for WPIX.
KPYX appears to be available if the need is felt to change KBCW calls.
I doubt the branding would be "CBS Bay Area Plus" given that KTVU already refers to KICU as "KTVU Plus".
A lot of this is, of course, speculation which I usually don't mess with, but having KRON take over the CW affiliation makes sense given the Nexstar ownership. Then KRON would be faced with a decision on maintaining the news identity that it so slowly rebuilt after its years in the wilderness post-NBC affiliation. Not that KRON is back to the level of quality it had in 2000 but, of the Bay Area stations with news operations, none of them except possibly KGO-TV are as good as they were 20+ years ago. KTVU has definitely slipped and KPIX seems lost. Note that I'm not counting Spanish-language or Asian-language operations.
Don't forget in San Francisco KQEH-TV the PBS affiliate is branded as KQED Plus as a way to name themselves after KQED-TV after the main PBS affiliate in San Francisco. This is where I am going with how Duopolies are branded in some places.
This is on record for San Francisco so far.
Here is a thread where we went in the same direction. But at the time was not confirmed given that the headline was crazy about KTLA Losing their CW affiliation and was quickly debunked with KTLA and CW owned by Nexstar plus the now confirmed Paramount Stations losing their CW affiliation.
Nexstar could purchase 31 WPXD Detroit from Inyo Broadcast Holdings. That way you would have CW 31 Detroit. Scripps owns both WMYD 20 and Ion meaning WMYD would become the new home for Ion. With WKBD 50 going independent, I don't see WMYD also staying independent for any length of time. Note : on the Michigan Radio and TV Buzzboard they say that Scripps would refuse to have The CW on any of their channels.
With Standard General acquiring KING/KONG Seattle, the best bet is for CBS to acquire KIRO from Cox/Apollo and pair it up with KSTW.On Station Id's COL part sure but in San Francisco it would have to be branded either KPIX+ and CBS Bay Area+ given that it is an extension of the main CBS Affiliate. Note I only gave the proposed examples for KMAX, KBCW, WKBD, WPCW, WPSG given that they are part of a Duopoly with the main CBS affiliate in those cities.
WUPA, WTOG and KSTW are the wild card here given that these stations could not just rebrand themselves as CBS Atlanta+, CBS Seattle + and CBS Tampa +.
Markets & Stations – Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
Can Mission Broadcasting step in and take over WUPA, WTOG and KSTW? This is like how WPIX New York where TV station license is owned by Mission Broadcasting the Station Manager is an employee of Mission and Nexstar steps in and hires the News Director + production staff for WPIX.
That deal is 99% dead.
or Nexstar/Mission or Gray or Hearst to buy KSTW
Here we go we are back to this one where WUPA goes when they lose their CW affiliation.
Atlanta and Detroit seen this story before 3 decades ago when WKBD had to end their Fox affiliation due to New World had a deal with Fox to convert WJBK from CBS affiliate to Fox Owned stations. In return WWJ got the CBS affiliation and WKBD got the then UPN affiliation on what is now known as CBS Detroit.
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I'm guessing that WUPA, will probably revert back to it's "Channel 69" branding.
As for WKBD, it might revert back to it's "TV50" branding.
I'm guessing that WUPA, will probably revert back to it's "Channel 69" branding.
As for WKBD, it might revert back to it's "TV50" branding.
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Nexstar could purchase KPXE to.
How about KPPX in Phoenix
No, they couldn't. Scripps spun off the station to Inyo Broadcast Holdings to keep the FCC happy (they can't own 3 full-powered stations in one market), but AFAIK it's being operated by Scripps and will keep the Ion affiliation.
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